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Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to become the next UK prime minister, said the odds of no-deal Brexit are "a million-to-one against". Johnson has in the past promised to take the UK out of the EU without a deal. "But I don't think that is where we are going to end up – I think it is a million-to-one against – but it is vital that we prepare," he said.

Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš survived a no-confidence vote early on Thursday (27 June), even as he faces charges of graft, EU concerns over possible conflicts of interest and mass rallies demanding his resignation.

Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar on Wednesday dismissed any notion that he may want to become the next president of the European Commission. "I have no plans for a career change at this stage," Varadkar told reporters, when pressed. Leaders from across the 28 EU states are meeting for a summit in Brussels on Sunday to nominate someone to replace commission president incumbent Jean-Claude Juncker.

French consumer group UFC Que Choisir on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in a Paris court against Google over allegations it has breached the EU's general data protection regulation (GDPR). The consumer group accuses Google over failing to meet GDPR rules when it comes to tracking user location. It also says Google needs to make it easier for users to block its services.

ZAGREB Marija Pejčinović-Burić, the centre-right Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs (FM), has been elected as a Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), EURACTIV’s partner Jutarnji list reported. With 159 votes from 268 members of the EPP-dominated Parliamentary Assembly...

A study by the consulting firm AlixPartners published Wednesday suggests Volkswagen and FiatChrysler could both face large fines should they fail to meet the European Union's emissions targets set for 2021. Volkswagen stands to lose some €1.83bn and FiatChrysler €746m. Carmakers, under EU rules, are required to cut average fleet emissions for passenger cars to 95 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer by 2021.

EU anti-trust regulators have launched a probe into US chipmaker Broadcom on whether its exclusivity restrictions breach EU rules. Margrethe Vestager, commissioner for competition policy, said in a statement that they also intend "to order Broadcom to halt its behaviour while our investigation proceeds to avoid any risk of serious and irreparable harm to competition." The California-based company risks fines up to 10 percent of its global revenues.

Carola Rackete, the captain of the migrant rescue boat Sea-Watch 3, on Wednesday said the ship was heading to Italy's Lampedusa island despite an entry ban imposed by Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini. "I know this is risky, but the 42 shipwrecked on board are exhausted. I will bring them to safety," she said. Sea-Watch 3 rescued the people two weeks ago off the Libyan coast.

Nestlé's plans to introduce a Nutri-Score for its products across Europe have been blocked in Germany, which lacks a legal framework for colour-coded food labels. EURACTIV Germany reports.

The first formal primary in Hungary's history, for Budapest's mayoral election, wrapped up on Wednesday (26 June) as the opposition joined forces to try to wrest political leadership in the capital from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party.

On the eve of assuming the EU's rotating presidency, the new centre-left Prime Minister of Finland, Antti Rinne, accepted on Wednesday (26 June) the possibility of a “small” eurozone budget to support investments, as long as it remains part of the EU’s long-term spending plans.

Oil majors have steadily reduced exploration investment since the 2014 oil price collapse. Now exploration is ticking up again, even if the oil price isn’t. Meanwhile, investment in renewables remains small among oil and gas companies.

Europe’s power politics are playing out more and more in the Baltic Sea, as the energy potential of the sea basin shifts more into the limelight. 

Nationalist parties all across the EU have long been feeding off the Union’s lack of democracy and are bound to jump on the way the new leaders of EU institutions are elected to reinforce their message, Louis Drounau warns.

Europe’s leading democracy and human rights organisation elected a new leadership late on Wednesday (26 June), overshadowed by the walk-out of several delegations following the ratification of Russia’s return to the assembly. With 159 votes from 268 members of the...

The Sea-Watch 3 NGO boat carrying dozens of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean entered Italian waters Wednesday (26 June) off Lampedusa island despite the threat of hefty fines from Italy's far-right interior minister.

Romania hosts the largest remains of natural and old growth forests in the whole of the EU. However, they are not on the safe side yet, writes Luc Bas.

Danish EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager will stay in Brussels for a second term, the Scandinavian nation’s new prime minister announced yesterday (26 June), even if she fails in her bid to become the next President of the European Commission.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (26 June) suggested the European Union was out of line in "suing" US technology companies like Facebook and Alphabet Inc's Google, saying legal action against those firms should be the purview of the United States.

peace and mutual respect to world leaders at the G20 summit on 28-29 June in Osaka.