European Union

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Press briefing ahead of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council will take place on 20 January at 11.00. The briefing will be "off the record".

The Leaders of the G7 fully endorse and will stand behind the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas.

The election campaign of ‘chancellor-in-waiting’ Friedrich Merz is losing momentum.

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Chances of reactivating Germany's nuclear reactors were “lower by the week”, Friedrich Merz said.

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The bill bans TikTok on national security grounds, citing TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a "foreign adversary" – China.

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One thing is clear: the EU does not want “an Assad 2.0”.

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Mexico is the EU's second largest trading partner in Latin America.

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EU institutions have been “walking on thin ice” when adopting the minimum wage directive, wrote Nicholas Emiliou, advocate-general of the CJEU.

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Plenary session, Strasbourg

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JxCat's seven MPs in the Spanish parliament are key to the government's survival until 2027.

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The Parliament had backed another candidate, Bruno Gencarelli, earlier this week.

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The Commission's investigation into X has been ongoing since December 2023.

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But Brussels will nevertheless be "keeping an eye" on Vienna's budget situation over the coming months.

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Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United States for the second time on Monday. As in his first term from 2017 to 2021, he has promised to make America "great again". This time he can count on Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress. The media discuss what this portends for the US and the rest of the world.