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Eurogroup President, Paschal Donohoe, issued a statement welcoming the publication of the European Commission’s Single Currency Package legislative proposals.

Ukraine has been publicly cautious in counting gains in a counteroffensive it launched this month to reclaim territory occupied by Russian forces, and on Friday (30 June) its president and a US general acknowledged that progress is measured in blood.

The draft report asks for a uniform, consent-based definition of rape in the EU, tougher rules on cyber violence, and improved support for victims.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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The draft report asks for a uniform, consent-based definition of rape in the EU, tougher rules on cyber violence, and improved support for victims.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2023 - EP

In a fresh agreement on the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), EU countries want to further increase targets for domestic processing of strategic raw materials, despite public commitments that processing should be done in resource-rich partner countries. 

EU leaders at their summit on Friday sidelined Poland and Hungary over a wider dispute on migration and asylum. Slovenia's prime minister Robert Golob explicitly laid most of the blame on Budapest.

Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen on Friday (30 June) answered allegations by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the EU was “bankrupt”, which he had published earlier on social media.

While most European citizens are aware of their right to elect their representatives from the local to the EU level, not all know about the participatory and deliberative initiatives which give citizens a say in decisions affecting them across the...

Spain will assume the six-month rotating presidency of the EU Council from Sweden this weekend — with PM Pedro Sanchez immediately travelling to Kyiv to express its support for Ukraine. But a July election in Spain may complicate matters.

EU lawmakers and stakeholders called out on Thursday (29 June) the lack of data on youth mental health, saying that this prevents them from understanding the scope of potential issues and ways to address them. 

After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, EU diplomatic relations with China have become more complex than ever, and economic concerns have heightened — as the EU does not benefit as much as Beijing from the relationship. What's the strategy now?

While food affordability is topping the list of concerns of European citizens, some politicians - like Spain's right-wing PM candidate - seem to not look at prices that much (or even set foot in a food market).

The police killing of a teenager on Tuesday (27 June), and the riots it has sparked across France, casts a big shadow over the success of President Emmanuel Macron’s plan of '100 days of appeasement, first introduced after the approval of a much-decried pensions reform in April.

EU leaders failed to resolve a bitter dispute on reform of the bloc’s migration rules after Poland and Hungary refused to back down in their standoff with the 25 other EU leaders. 

Central and Eastern European countries display low ambitions with their National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), raising concerns about the region's ability to meet EU climate goals, campaigners warn. 

EU ministers and the European Parliament have reached an agreement on a Farm Sustainability Data Network meant to boost sustainability in agriculture by collecting and sharing on-farm data.

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced on Friday (30 June) what he termed "unacceptable" attempts to use the recent death of a teenager at the hands of the police to spread riots across the country.

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Despite the hydrogen economy still being in its infancy, Europe is already buzzing with new projects, as governments and private investors raise their ambition and inject billions into the development of the clean-burning fuel. In this special report, EURACTIV looks...

A group of 10 EU leaders met informally on Friday (30 June) on the sidelines of a summit in Brussels to 'brainstorm' what the bloc's enlargement could mean for its future.