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The leader of centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, said on Thursday that Spain’s leader Pedro Sánchez could call snap elections this year due to his ‘weak progressive coalition’, which depends on support from Catalan and Basque separatists.

After weeks of silence from Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) over an investigation that revealed members of the party's youth group praising Mussolini and far-right terrorists during their meetings, Senate President Ignazio La Russa condemned their actions while Giorgia Meloni has yet to comment.

Human errors were made in the triple election that took place in Belgium on 9 June, according to experts, which granted 16-17 year-olds, who were allowed to vote only in the European elections, to also vote in federal and regional elections.

Apple's decision not to launch its own artificial intelligence (AI) features in the EU is a "stunning declaration" of its anticompetitive behavior, EU Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday (27 June).

President Joe Biden delivered a shaky, halting performance while his Republican rival Donald Trump battered him with a series of often false attacks at their debate on Thursday (27 June).

The Slovak parliament passed on Thursday (June 27) the so-called “Lex Assassination”, a widely criticised package of measures that the ruling coalition claims should improve the security situation in Slovakia following the assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Despite concerns, the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) of Marine Le Pen signals that nothing will change in the Franco-German relationship if a prime minister from their ranks takes over in France, but below the surface, the EU’s engine could grind to a halt.

In a rebuke to the Bulgarian government’s framework position in support of Ukraine, President Rumen Radev has refused to attend July’s NATO summit in Washington.

Excavators dug through piles of waste at a garbage dump surrounded by sunflower fields in Croatia on Thursday (27 June), searching for bodies of victims killed in war more than three decades ago, after remains of 10 people were found earlier this month.

Support for Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party has fallen ahead of the 4 July election, a poll showed on Thursday (27 June), after he said the West had provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

After winning five MEPs in the recent European elections, the Volt party is putting forward 22 candidates for the legislative elections in France, particularly in the constituencies reserved for French citizens living abroad, hoping to help counter the surge of the far right.

While Ursula von der Leyen’s bid for the European Commission presidency may have made it through EU27 leaders' approval, her next big challenge now will be how to woo key parts of the European Parliament.  

As leaders convene for the second day of the EU summit in Brussels, the spotlight is on Giorgia Meloni’s latest chess moves.

Georgia's accession to the bloc has 'de fact' been halted after the country's authorities passed a controversial Russia-style 'foreign agent' law, EU leaders warned on Thursday (27 June).

EU leaders on Thursday gave their political approval to a trio of names - Ursula von der Leyen, Antonio Costa, and Kaja Kallas - to lead the EU's three major institutions over the next five years.

France's President Emmanuel Macron will try to nominate Thierry Breton for the European Commission, angling for an expanded portfolio around economic security and defence, Le Monde reported on Thursday (27 June).

Poland’s conservative PiS party has reached an agreement with Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) about the division of key posts within their EU political family, the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported on Thursday (27 June).

The EU requires €500 billion in defence investments over the next decade, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU leaders, as the bloc searches for ways to ramp up funding for its new top priority.

A group of European NGOs announced on Thursday (27 June) they will take the European Commission to the EU’s top court over the 10-year re-authorisation of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller.

The next European Parliament must address voters' economic grievances to prevent the rise of the far-right in future EU elections, the assembly's incumbent president, Roberta Metsola, said on Thursday (27 June) after the first talks with EU leaders in Brussels following the June European polls.