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In a letter dated 2 June, József Magyar, deputy secretary of state for development of European affairs at the ministry of foreign affairs and trade, asked Hungarian embassies in the European Union to provide information about the professional visits of...

The United States will sanction more than two dozen people and entities involved in Iran’s nuclear, missile and conventional arms programs, putting teeth behind UN sanctions on Tehran that Washington argues have resumed despite the opposition of allies and adversaries.

The wealthiest 1% of the world’s population were responsible for the emission of more than twice as much carbon dioxide as the poorer half of the world from 1990 to 2015, according to new research. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

Olaf Scholz, Germany's finance minister and chancellor candidate for the social democrats (SPD), is currently in the spotlight for his involvement in two financial scandals currently shaking German politics: the Wirecard and Cum-Ex scandals. EURACTIV Germany reports.

When it comes to migration, there should be tangible solidarity in the EU. However, Poland cannot accept the paradigm according to which solidarity is based on obligatory measures, including relocation, writes Andrzej Sadoś.

Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday (20 September) in Berlin and other German cities, urging the European Union to take in migrants left without shelter after a fire destroyed their biggest camp in Greece.

EU member states need to integrate resilience into their national recovery plans in order to be eligible for recovery support, write Joke Dufourment, Natalia Papu and Yasmina Lembachar.

Vil Mirzayanov, a scientist involved in the secret Soviet program to create the Novichok nerve agent, has apologised to the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is recovering from poisoning in Berlin, The Moscow Times reports. "I offer my profound apologies to Navalny for the fact that I took part in this criminal business, developing this substance that he was poisoned with," Mirzayanov said in a TV interview.

Thousands of people attended a protest on Sunday in the western German city of Dusseldorf against government restrictions imposed to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, Deutsche Welle reports. The organisers had expected as many as 50,000 people would attend, but only a few thousand joined the protest. There were banners with slogans such as "End to panic, coronavirus is a lie."

British banks Barclays, Coutts, and Lloyds are to stop serving UK customers resident in the EU at the end of the year because it will become illegal to do so in the absence of a new post-Brexit deal on financial services, The Sunday Times reports. Lloyds told 13,000 customers in Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Slovakia they will terminate accounts by the end of the year.

Tens of thousands of opposition supporters marched in the Belarusian capital of Minsk Sunday (20 September), defying a heavy security presence that included water cannon and armoured vehicles.

Some 12 out of 37 areas of Madrid to undergo new lockdowns on grounds of rising infection rates have held protests saying they were unfair because they targeted mostly areas with a lower per capita income and higher migrant populations, the BBC reports. "No to a class-based lockdown" banners said in the suburb of Vallecas. A regional health chief said he would shut down the whole city if need be.

There is an urgent need to fully recognise the democratic rights of all European citizens, write Alberto Alemanno, Giorgio Clarotti, Olivier Costa and Christophe Leclercq.

EU foreign ministers will have nothing to show Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya when they meet her in Brussels on Monday, after Cyprus blocked sanctions.

European nations from Denmark and Iceland in the north to Greece in the south announced new restrictions to curb surging coronavirus infections in some of their largest cities, and Britain was considering a new national lockdown.

The European Commission sealed a second Covid-19 vaccine deal, amid fears over the fair distribution of supplies worldwide. So far Brussels has secured, or is negotiating, a stock of nearly two billion doses.

A German court just heard crucial witness testimony about Syria's state torture programme - in the first such trial of its kind in the world.

Migration and foreign policy will take centre stage next week, as the EU tries to come to a common position on Turkey, China, Russia and the sanctions on Belarus.

Mark Rutte's comment is the first time the leader of an EU country has publicly considered the possibility of the EU integration project continuing without recalcitrant states.

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