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With the publication of the European Commission’s Communication on Digital Health in April, the course for digital health has been set – now it’s time to play Digital Health Golf!

UK housing minister Dominic Raab was appointed the new Brexit secretary on Monday, the prime minister's office announced. The move comes after the dramatic overnight resignation of David Davis, the UK's top negotiator. Raab is considered a close ally of premier Theresa May, who could now face a leadership challenge from hardline Brexiteers. May and her entire cabinet only agreed their new Brexit customs policy last Friday.

Climate change is having a massive impact on Europe’s winemakers but the effects are not always negative. Belgium’s industry is on the up thanks to shifting temperature patterns.

Romania's president Klaus Iohannis signed Monday a decree to revoke the head of the anti-corruption National Anti-Corruption Directorate, Laura Codruta Kovesi. Centre-right Iohannis, who previously opposed the centre-left government's decision to fire Codruta Koves, was obliged by a Constitutional Court ruling to do so. The government has been criticised by the EU and the Council of Europe for its reform of the judiciary, increasing political control over prosecutors and judges.

An upcoming EU-China summit in Beijing will be yet another moment for both economies to show leadership on climate action, following the United States' surrender of influence under Donald Trump, writes Professor Zou Ji.

One and a half months after the new legislative package on Cohesion Policy for the 2021-2027 period was announced, negotiations are ready to start in order to reach a final consensus before the new European Parliament takes office in 2019....

Competition is what makes the world a better place, not intelligent design by God or by bureaucrats. Therefore, protecting competition is one of the key responsibilities of the European Commission. But in the case of Android, it is about to make a huge mistake, writes Žiga Turk.

Britain's Brexit negotiator, David Davis, has resigned in a mini-rebellion, adding to uncertainty on the EU talks as the clock ticks to March 2019.

European aircraft maker Airbus is expecting 37,390 new aircraft will be required in the next 20 years as traffic will grow at 4.4 percent per year. The more than doubling in the world fleet to 48,000 aircraft will spark a need for 540,000 new pilots, according to the company's new Global Market Forecast 2018-2037. Aviation is already estimated to be responsible for 2.0-2.5 percent of global CO2 emissions.

As EU states look to stem migrant flows to the continent, aspiring European Union member Bosnia is caught in the middle, with thousands of immigrants stuck in the impoverished Balkan country.

Georgia is the largest per capita contributor to the Nato mission in Afghanistan and the only non-Nato country to join Nato's rapid response team.

The mayors of ten major European cities –including Paris, London, Milan and Barcelona – have issued a joint call for the EU to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement.

Chinese state broadcaster CGTN plans to hire more than 350 London-based journalists over the next 18 months as part of a global expansion, according to a recruiter's email seen by BuzzFeed News. "We aim to differentiate ourselves from leading Western media" and focus on "stories often ignored by western media," the ad reads. CGTN did not return requests for comment and the site is temporarily unavailable in certain EU countries.

More than 18,000 civil servants, including police officers, academics and military staff, in Turkey are to be dismissed, according to a 461-page decree issued on Sunday. The move comes before Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday is sworn in as president following re-election in June and prior to lifting a state of emergency in place since summer 2016. Twelve NGOs, three newspapers and one television station will also be closed.

French far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, said on Sunday that her party "will be dead by the end of August" if French judges decided to block €2m of state subsidies to the party, according to AFP. The judges reportedly have decided to stop the money as part of an investigation into alleged misuse by the party of European parliamentary funds.

Italy's far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, will make a request on Thursday when meeting EU interior ministers in Innsbruck that refugees who are rescued at sea by ships from border control missions are no longer taken to Italy. Salvini announced his intentions on social media on Sunday after an Irish navy ship arrived in the Sicilian port of Messina with 106 migrants, after participating in the EU-sponsored Operation Sophia.

With a NATO summit in Brussels on 11-12 July and a tête-à-tête with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, this week will give Donald Trump a chance to elaborate on that surprising diplomatic doctrine, but only at the risk of further fueling tensions with the country's already deeply unsettled allies.

China remains open for trade with foreign partners and can only benefit from an economically strong Europe, its premier said on Saturday (7 July) as he pressed for expanded ties with the continent's eastern wing while waging a tariff war with Washington.

Germany plans to use public money to support companies which invest in Africa, part of a new "Marshall Plan" with which it hopes to tackle the roots of the refugee crisis that has convulsed European politics since 2015.