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A large majority of EU countries have yet to adequately adopt an electricity market reform conducted by the European Commission under Claude Juncker, which poses a challenge as the grid must accommodate new renewables and electric devices.

As negotiations among EU leaders kick off in Brussels, recent messaging from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her government’s sources threatened a rejection of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s bid for a second term. 

The head of the Czech ANO movement, former prime minister Andrej Babiš, has said that his party, which quit the Liberals' ranks last week, is establishing a new group in the European Parliament - but it is still unclear with whom he will team up.

We can only second-guess what Vladimir Putin’s goals were when he started the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We can see that in the meantime, NATO has become bigger and stronger, and today, the EU may agree a lineup of new leaders considered “hawks” towards the Kremlin.

While pushing back against the moves to hoard most top EU jobs by the election-winners, the centre-right EPP, European Socialists are simultaneously rushing to clean their own house and rearrange the internal balance of power in their European Parliament group to reflect the election results. 

EU leaders arriving in Brussels on Thursday (27 June) made last-ditch efforts to placate Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni but gave little indication that they will change the proposed EU top job package, which had been agreed without her.  .  

National and EU experts are discussing new legally binding limits for acrylamide in food, EU sources told Euractiv, reopening a file that has sparked intense discussions.

EU leaders are expected to agree a package deal on the EU's top jobs and discuss the geostrategic and policy priorities for the coming years during a busy two-day summit on Thursday and Friday.

In response to the farmer protests that rocked Europe earlier this year, the governing parliamentary groups in Germany have agreed to introduce a relief package for the agriculture sector, amid dissatisfaction from farmers' organisation.

Euractiv has seen the Hungarian EU presidency's detailed plans for the Environment, Energy and Transport Council meetings in the second half of 2024, which outline when Budapest plans to advance individual existing legislative proposals, agree a COP29 position, and present its plans for geothermal energy.

Ahead of the meeting of EU heads of states and governments on Thursday and Friday (27-28 June), car manufacturers, energy companies and environmental NGOs have issued an “urgent” warning against revoking the EU’s 2035 de facto ban to sell new petrol and diesel cars.

As the European Union launches accession negotiations with Ukraine, Hungary's presidency of the EU Council from 1 July  to 31 December risks stalling the process, with minority rights being the key point of contention.

Kazakhstan’s innovation agenda aims to attract $150 billion of foreign investment in the next five years while doubling the country’s GDP. Kazakh President Tokayev is looking to Europe to realize the funding project.

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Professional associations have urged the Romanian government to retract the emergency ordinance requiring companies to implement the e-invoice system for transactions with final consumers from January 2025. 

Two MEPs from Bulgaria’s “We Continue the Change (PP)” party have been accepted as full members of the Renew Europe parliamentary group, the party announced on Wednesday.

The European Union and Ukraine are expected to sign a long-term security agreement when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Brussels on Thursday (27 June), pledging to maintain military support and other aid to Kyiv as it fights off Russia’s invasion....

There are more microbes in the human body than there are stars in the Milky Way. So it's no surprise that the microbiome’s vital contribution to overall wellbeing has become an important topic for both scientists and consumers in recent years. But did you know that an individual’s gut microbiota is as unique as a fingerprint? And that specialty food ingredients such as fibre, probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics and postbiotics can support gut health?

Russian pranksters who often target people the Russian state is interested in released footage on Wednesday (26 June) of a video call with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron after tricking him into thinking he was speaking to a former Ukrainian president.

The leader of Bulgaria's largest party, GERB (EPP), and former premier, Boyko Borissov, said there was a grave threat to his life, suggesting it was due to his support for Ukraine.