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The European Commission on Saturday (29 June) signed €1 billion in macro-financial assistance with Egypt, part of a previously agreed funding package to help Cairo pursue substantial economic reforms.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday (28 June) denounced the use of a racist slur against him by an anti-immigration Reform UK party campaigner, as the general election campaign entered its final straight.

Joe Biden said on Friday (28 June) he intended to defeat Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would consider dropping out of the race after a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats.

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday (28 June) that Russia should resume production of intermediate and shorter range nuclear-capable missiles and then consider where to deploy them.

The EU’s Court of Justice (CJEU) has upheld a Commission decision from 2014 to fine companies involved in anti-competitive behaviour in the pharmaceutical sector.

The European Commission formally requested information on Friday (28 June) from online marketplaces Temu and Shein on measures taken to comply with online safety regulation Digital Services Act (DSA).

In Brussels, politicians haggled over top jobs this week. In Dublin, nobody will take them.

The UK Labour Party, widely expected to win the general election on 4 July, has announced that it will ban bottom fishing in all national marine protected areas, a move that could strain EU-UK relations two years ahead of the renewal of their trade agreement.

The question of how to reduce emissions from agriculture remains very much open, and the clock is ticking for the EU to become carbon neutral by 2050.

French voters go to the polls this Sunday (30 June) for the first round of snap legislative elections – but the country’s two-round first-past-the-post system makes projections complex and political tactics numerous, ultimately benefiting the surging far-right.

Striking a balance between the needs of farmers, consumer demands and sustainability will likely define the agrifood policies during the new European Commission mandate.

The leader of the French far-right Rassemblement National Marine Le Pen said again that it is her party's role to choose the future French EU Commissioner, showing muscle against the President, two days before the legislative elections.

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A senior EU official pushed back on the IMF's recommendation that countries should pursue policies that encourage the diffusion of new technologies, arguing that the EU must sometimes introduce “protecting” measures to ensure its own economic security.

The EU should provide food chain operators with a common framework for food systems that aligns all industry players towards sustainability, Dirk Jacobs, FoodDrinkEurope's director general, told Euractiv in an interview.

A potential victory of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) in France’s snap legislative elections has sparked fears of a wider Euroscepticism wave across the bloc, compounding the far-right's surge in the recent EU elections.

During the European elections campaign, many political parties in Bulgaria and other countries in the EU’s east attacked the European Green Deal. But when several hundred stakeholders gathered at a Green Transition Forum in Sofia, their message was that they wanted to make the best of the project and the EU funding.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday (28 June) called for the building of "bridges" in the global economy, as Beijing grapples with economic and security disputes with its neighbours and trading partners around the world.

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A defunct Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter for about an hour and adding to the mass of space junk already in orbit, US space agencies said.