European Union

The New York Times has announced that it will stop publishing cartoons in its international edition starting July. The paper faced a storm of protest after it ran a cartoon of Trump and Netanyahu in April which critics decried as anti-Semitic. Commentators see the move as a dangerous decision.

At the latest annual Whitsun meeting of Sudeten Germans, who were expelled from Czechoslovakia after World War II, participants called for the celebration of a Sudeten German day in their former homeland. Czech media would welcome such an event but anticipate resistance from politicians in Prague.

On 12 June, ministers from the current Trio Presidency of the Council of the EU (Romania, Finland and Croatia), together with the European Commission, met with their Western Balkans counterparts to discuss a range of employment and social policy issues and issued a press statement.

President Tusk met President Pendarovski in Brussels at the occasion of his first official visit abroad and discussed EU-North Macedonia relations including the opening of accession talks.

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The new European Labour Authority will have its headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia, EU employment ministers decided in Luxembourg on Thursday. Slovakia received 15 out of 28 votes in the first round of voting. Other contenders were Bulgaria (Sofia), Cyprus (Nicosia), and Lithuania (Riga). Central and eastern EU members have long complained about the geographical distribution of EU agencies, many of which are headquartered in western Europe.

Organisation juive européenne and Vignoble Psagot
Approximation of laws
Advocate General Hogan: EU law requires, for a product originating in a territory occupied by Israel since 1967, the indication of the geographical name of this territory and, where it is the case, the indication that the product comes from an Israeli settlement

Organisation juive européenne and Vignoble Psagot
Approximation of laws
Advocate General Hogan: EU law requires, for a product originating in a territory occupied by Israel since 1967, the indication of the geographical name of this territory and, where it is the case, the indication that the product comes from an Israeli settlement

TopFit and Biffi
DISC
The exclusion, in part, of nationals of other Member States from the German senior amateur athletics championships may be contrary to EU law.

TopFit and Biffi
DISC
The exclusion, in part, of nationals of other Member States from the German senior amateur athletics championships may be contrary to EU law.

The European Union's investment arm risks torpedoing the bloc's commitment to abide by the Paris climate goals by financing billions of euros worth of new natural gas infrastructure projects, new analysis said Thursday (13 June).

Donald Trump has pledged to move troops from Germany to Poland, while praising Poland's nationalist rulers and attacking Germany on energy and defence.

The leaders of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic will discuss in Budapest on Thursday (13 June) potential candidates for top jobs in the European Union coming up for grabs shortly, in a sign of regional coordination by the so-called Visegrad Four.

EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has warned against ramping up climate goals. Nine of the bloc's 28 nations have called for the EU to set a target to go carbon neutral by 2050, which means steeper emissions cuts for industry by 2030 than under the 2015 Paris climate accord. "To fix new goals, again and again, doesn't make sense. Let's focus on delivering what we already agreed," he said.