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On 26 June 2018, the Council adopted conclusions on enlargement and stabilisation and association process.

President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker congratulated President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on his re-election as President of Turkey.

Appointment of 7 new members of the EFSA management board.

The Council adopted conclusions on the revision of the EU maritime security strategy (EUMSS) action plan.

In preparation for Brexit, the Council authorises the Commission to negotiate modifications to EU's WTO schedule including apportioning tariff rate quotas.

The Council adopted updated aviation safety rules, including EU-wide rules for civil drones.

The Council agreed its negotiating position on a revised European Citizens' Initiative.

UK campaigner Madeleina Kay, who dresses as UK-EU Superwoman, wants a second vote, based on facts, to stop UK's EU exit.

In a non-legislative resolution, MEPs urged EU countries on Monday (25 June) to make sure that providing humanitarian help to migrants is not treated as a crime. The mere fact that they felt obliged to do so speaks volumes about where Europe is today.

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In 2013-2014, EU-Canada relations are being upgraded through negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and a Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA).  CETA is a ground-breaking agreement which will provide for an ambitious liberalisation of trade and investment relations.

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If ever an EU summit seemed doomed, it's this week's immigration showdown. Governments like to imply that the 'migrant crisis' is at an end but in truth, it's just starting, and Europe needs a strategy and a common EU-wide approach, writes Gilles Merritt.

A redevelopment project co-financed by the ERDF in the commune of Sète (France) aims to mitigate erosion which threatens the site. The fund contributes to projects on sensitive issues in the area by the Mediterranean, such as maritime pollution and sustainable tourism. EURACTIV.fr reports.

French lawyers will file a complaint against Bulgaria and ask the European Commission to start an infringement procedure for inhumane treatment of asylum seekers by the country’s authorities, the Green/EFA group announced on Tuesday (26 June).

Combination vaccines represent a substantial outcome of a successful R&D to ease vaccination experience for everyone: children, parents and healthcare professionals while improving the protection of the public against vaccine-preventable diseases.

As the trade war with the US escalates, the EU is considering imposing provisional safeguard measures on steel imports, Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström told the press on Tuesday (26 June).

The Lifeline, a boat transporting some 230 people who were rescued at sea by the Mission Lifeline NGO, will be allowed to dock in Malta, the Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte said on Tuesday. After Italy had refused to open its ports, the Maltese government has said earlier that it wanted to prevent an "escalation into a humanitarian crisis" and explore actions that could be taken.

Economic development, migration flows, social justice and cohesion, radicalisation and terrorist threats, democratic transition, and rule of law - the challenges facing the Euro-Mediterranean region are numerous and growing, writes MEP Enrique Guerrero Salom.  

Reading the opinion of Greens / EFA members of the European Parliament on plant breeding, one can’t help but be amazed by their obsession with GMOs, writes Garlich von Essen.

Parts of the German CDU party are highly critical of the joint reform plans proposed by their own Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. Her projects for the eurozone are the "wrong signal", they say. EURACTIV Germany’s media partner “WirtschaftsWoche” reports.

US tariffs on EU steel and aluminium "have consequences," EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said Tuesday after Harley-Davidson announced moving some production outside the US. Malmstrom added the EU was "seriously contemplating" taking provisional measures by mid-July to further protect EU industry. She said however that the EU has "not yet a prepared list" of counter-measures in case Donald Trump imposed tariffs on EU cars, after threats to do so.