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The reform of the legal system in Poland "fundamentally violates" all its elements and the government in Warsaw needs to do more to avoid "undermining public confidence in it," the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights said in a report published on Friday (28 June).

German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze announced that she will be holding talks with representatives of all states that have so far refused to join the EU's carbon neutrality objective for 2050. EURACTIV Germany reports.

The next EU Commission should take a stronger position on innovation in the pharma sector, the new leader of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) told EURACTIV.com in an interview.

The Week Ahead 24 – 30 June 2019

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Climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany on Thursday (27 June), with oil-dependent Saudi-Arabia insisting on questioning the scientific value of the UN's 1.5 °C IPCC global warming report. No agreement has been reached on the carbon mechanisms enshrined in article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

The EU will continue to defend liberal values, it pledged at the "G20" summit of wealthy nations in Japan - after Russia said liberalism was dying.

The release of methane emissions from drilling has been a beguiling problem for the oil and gas industry. But EU satellite data points toward a solution.

The Greek conservative New Democracy (ND) party is poised for a come back to power after four years in opposition. Just over a week before snap general elections on 7 July, the party, at 36 percent, is nine points ahead of leftist governing Syriza (27 percent), a survey by Pulse-Skai found. If elected prime minister, ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis would strengthen the EPP in talks on future EU top-posts.

Ireland's parliament passed Thursday a motion allowing troops from the neutral country to join EU defence forces in a German-led battle group with Austrian, Czech, Croatian and Dutch personal next year. Sinn Fein's Aengus O'Snodaigh opposed the motion, saying that "battle groups are not peacekeepers. The words 'battle groups' mean that they are trained to go into battle". No EU battle group has yet been in action.

Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018 deploying a rare type of malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts, four people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Finland will push for a review of the bloc’s internal security strategy to better face new challenges including hybrid threats, Finnish ministers explained on Thursday (27 June), as the country geared up to start its six-month-stint at the helm of the EU's rotating presidency.

North Macedonia has done its part in removing the obstacles on its road to EU accession, but the EU has been slow to follow suit, North Macedonia’s Defence Minister Radmila Šekerinska told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview. Radmila Šekerinska is...

US carmaker Ford plans to reduce the number of factories in Europe from 24 to 18 and to cut 12,000 jobs, the company said Thursday. The plan includes closure or sale of six assembly and component manufacturing plants by the end of next year. "Our future is rooted in electrification," said Stuart Rowley, president of Ford Europe. A future family of battery electric vehicles would be assembled in Europe.

Swiss stocks could be delisted from trading in the European Union by Monday (1 July) after talks on a political agreement between the two sides ended in deadlock. Switzerland and the EU have been trying in vain for years to merge their existing 120 bilateral treaties into a single agreement. Switzerland twice received an extension to agree to Brussels' demands, the latest expiring on Sunday (30 June).

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The tenth meeting of the Accession Conference with Serbia at Ministerial level was held in Brussels to open negotiations on Chapter 9 - Financial services.

A joint press statement was issued after the tenth meeting of the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Council.

The Council prolonged EU economic sanctions against Russia until 31 January 2020.

The European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco adopted a joint declaration following the 14th meeting of the Association Council, declaring their wish to give a new impetus to their strategic, multidimensional and privileged relationship.

Before the start of the G20 meeting in Osaka, President Tusk met Prime Minister Abe. In his opening remarks he reiterated the support to Japan for a successful G20 summit.