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Despite the EU's protests, the Hungarian government has managed to turn the country's media into a propaganda machine. Now the theme that dominates the airways, cables and billboards is: Soros using the EU to transport migrants.

The leaders of five political groups said that the UK's offer on citizens' rights was a “damp squib” that risks “creating second-class citizenship”.

The US president will be back in Europe for France's Bastille Day, while the EU and Ukraine will hold a summit in Kiev, and MEPs will discuss migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean.

Marathon meeting between Trump and Putin, as well as violent street protests, stole the headlines of a G20 summit on global warming and trade.

The ESM, the eurozone emergency fund, agreed on Friday to unblock a new tranche of aid as part of the bailout programme agreed upon in 2015.

EU member states on Friday appointed Mariya Gabriel as European commissioner for digital economy and society. Gabriel, a former MEP, replaces Kristalina Georgieva as the new Bulgarian member of the EU executive body. Her nomination was confirmed by the European Parliament earlier this week. She will take office on Monday and is due to serve until the end of the commission's mandate on 31 October 2019.

The EU is right that diplomacy is key in deterring cyberattacks. Yet, more political decisiveness and coordination are required to be successful.

While many say they seek a solution to the refugee crisis, the answer might be – quite literally – right in front of your face: digital technology.

US and Russian leaders to meet for about 30 minutes in the margins of the event at the same time as plenary talks on global warming.

The European Parliament on Thursday voted to suspend EU membership talks with Turkey. MEPs supporting the move argued that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown on opposition and the press, go against EU values and democratic criteria. Ankara warned that suspending talks would be a "terrible mistake". The parliament, however, has little say in the process. EU member states are divided on whether to continue accession talks with Turkey.

The US president's first visit to Poland on Thursday resulted in warm words, but few concrete solutions for Central Europe.

With the code of conduct Italian authorities are trying to impose on NGOs that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, people would be forced to endure additional days at sea while states tussle over which port to send them too.

Reunification talks between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders collapsed early Friday without a deal, said UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, who also took part. The discussions had been described as the "best chance" for a deal since the island was divided in 1947. Sources said Turkey insisted on maintaining their military presence on the island after reunification, whereas the Greek side wanted the withdrawal of all 35,000 Turkish troops.

EU states are running out of time to comply with migrant relocation quotas on Italy and Greece, the Commission has said.

EU countries have declined to help Italy by opening their ports to migrants, but aim to expel more people and impose “rules” on NGO rescues.

EU and Japanese leaders hailed their agreement on free trade as a rejection of protectionist trends. The two sides still need to agree on investment courts for the deal to be concluded.

The EU Brexit negotiator warned that a customs union between the UK and EU will not be possible if the UK doesn't want to respect single market rules, and "no deal" would send the UK back to "a distant past".

More deaths due to unsafe rubber dinghies after EU naval operation destroyed wooden boats, Amnesty International has said.

Sanctions imposed on Russia are a "covert form" of protectionism, president Vladimir Putin wrote in the German daily Handelsblatt on Thursday, ahead of the G20 summit. Putin argued that protectionism was becoming widespread. "Unilaterally imposed and politically motivated sanctions on investment, trade and, in particular, technology transfer become its covert form," Putin wrote. He went on to state that sanctions have "no perspective" and contradict G20 principles.

British prime minister Theresa May will hold a bilateral meeting with US president Donald Trump at the G20 summit on Friday in Hamburg, a British official told Reuters on Wednesday. The two will discuss the potential missile crisis in North Korea, and May will tell Trump that the Paris climate accord does not need to be renegotiated. Trump will hold another bilateral meeting that day with Russian president Vladimir Putin.