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Next week the remains of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) are to be exhumed and removed to another site. With this move the Socialists (PSOE) want to deprive the Valle de los Caídos burial site of its status as a place of pilgrimage for right-wing extremists. Spain's media discuss the consequences.

Eurogas President Philippe Sauquet announces support for the European Commission's vision of a carbon neutrality by 2050 and calls on industry players to work with legislators on timely and innovative solutions for gas, both technological and legislative. This will demonstrate how gas and gas technologies can enable the energy transition

Human beings spend on average 90% of their lives indoors. Buildings are also a huge drain on energy resources and create a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions. This Special Report looks deeper into the places we live and work.

Indoor environment quality and healthy homes play an ever more substantial role in human wellbeing, according to new research unveiled at a high-level event last week (10 October).

While the European Investment Bank is making efforts to end fossil fuel funding, the Juncker Commission is doing its best to frustrate it – and to undermine Ursula von der Leyen, writes WWF’s Sébastien Godinot.

Josep Borrell, the next chief of the EU's foreign affairs branch EEAS, told reporters in Luxembourg that it "is reasonable" to suggest that the new European Commission won't launch until 1 December given the delay from the European Parliament hearings. "Frankly speaking I don't see how we can do the whole process of hearings for three candidates," he said, in order to meet the 23 October deadline.

Poland's conservative ruling party has won four more years in office, with attacks on courts and LGBTI values auguring badly for EU relations

EU foreign ministers are meeting to find a common position on the Turkish invasion in Syria. However, events are evolving quickly, as Kurdish forces asked the Syrian army to protect them.

Budapest joins Istanbul and Warsaw by having an opposition mayor to a strongman illiberal leader, after a united opposition serves a shock blow across several towns in local elections in Hungary.

After an initial outburst, French President Emmanuel Macron sought to ease tensions on Sunday (13 October) following the rejection last week of his protégée Sylvie Goulard as France's candidate for the European Commission. EURACTIV France reports.

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President Donald Trump’s administration is set to impose economic sanctions on Ankara, potentially as early as this week, for its incursion into northern Syria, one of the few levers the United States still has over NATO-ally Turkey.

EU and UK Brexit talks over the weekend failed to yield any breakthrough as "a big gap" remains over customs arrangements. The lack of progress was highlighted by EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, who said a new "political impulse" was needed from the UK to secure a deal this week. The two sides are set to met again on Monday ahead of an EU summit on Thursday and Friday.

Conservative academic Kais Saied, an independent, is poised to win Tunisia's presidential runoff. An Emrhold exit poll gave him a 40-point lead with 72.5 percent, ahead his rival, the media magnate Nabil Karou. Official results are expected later on Monday. Saied secured the support of the youth, taking some estimated 90 percent of voters aged between 18 and 25.

A controversial counterterrorism bill could end up criminalising aid workers in the Netherlands if they enter conflict hotspots when assisting the world's most vulnerable people.

Time is running out for chlorpyrifos, the pesticide which is a cause of brain damage to human fetuses and newly-born children. The EU Commission and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have both stated approval should not be renewed.

European Council President Donald Tusk strongly opposed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday (11 October), warning him to stop blackmailing Europe. That has prompted Bulgaria’s prime minister to reveal he will ask EU chiefs to tone down their stance against Erdoğan.