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As the European Political Community (EPC) gears up to meet this week and discuss the arc of conflict and instability and Europe's borders, European leaders must heed Winston Churchill's call to action, write Dylan Macchiarini Crosson and Steven Blockmans.

After several EU countries announced a boycott of the upcoming informal council meeting in Hungary, Germany seems ready to follow suit as not a single minister will travel to Budapest to attend the meeting.

Donald Trump's former leading rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, offered full-throated endorsements of his candidacy at the party's convention on Tuesday (16 July).

To be secure, von der Leyen needs support from a forth political group. This will most likely come from the Greens. But Green support cannot be at the expense of alienating large parts of her own EPP group.

US Senator Bob Menendez was convicted on Tuesday (16 July) on all 16 criminal counts he faced including bribery at his corruption trial in Manhattan federal court, completing the once-powerful New Jersey Democrat's dramatic downfall.

European governments must step up efforts to incentivise the private sector to invest in Ukraine in order to fund the war-torn country’s “enormous” enormous recovery and reconstruction needs, a senior EU official said on Tuesday (16 July).

Newly elected and re-elected members of the European Parliament are gathering in Strasbourg for the first plenary session of the new mandate.

By electing the institution’s vice-presidents, the members of the European Parliament kept the far-right political families isolated from vice-president positions on Tuesday (16 June), in a move that secured the cordon sanitaire in place.

Romania expects to sign a government-to-government agreement with the United States to purchase latest-generation F-35 fighter jets as early as this fall, the defence ministry said on Tuesday (16 July).

The European Court of Auditors has criticised the European Commission for setting unachievable hydrogen production and import targets for 2030, while praising its swift adoption of the market rulebook, in a new report published on Wednesday (17 July).

European Council President Charles Michel issued a stinging reply to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday (16 July) to “set the record straight” on his rogue diplomacy over Ukraine, as the EU's boycott of meetings under the country's EU presidency continues to widen.

Liberal leader Valerie Hayer and socialist chief Iratxe Garcia Perez are among the big names set to join the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee (AGRI) for the new term, draft lists of several political groups seen by Euractiv show.

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced on Tuesday (16 July) its first investments into Central and Eastern European energy and transport infrastructure, as part of a wider €280 million funding commitment aimed at countering Russian and Chinese influence in the region.

A preliminary deal on the set-up of the European Parliament's committees could be adjusted in September to make the current security and defence subcommittee a full-fledged committee, as the Socialists appear to have given up their resistance to this step, parliamentary sources told Euractiv.  

The European Commission aims to study interoperability provisions in the EU's digital competition regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to a published tender.

There are whispers that the recent change of government in the UK may result in gains in terms of closer ties with Brussels, not only a softer approach to migration but also in losses - particularly of its marbles.

Exempting agriculture from net-zero climate plans, stronger support for farmers and the demand for simpler rules for national administrations are among the key requests emerging from a debate held in the Council on Monday (15 July).

The European Conservatives & Reformists Group looks set to split over its support (or not) for Ursula von der Leyen to remain European Commission President. Read more for where the fault lines have appeared.

Global Justice Network (GJN) and Italian consumer rights organisation ADUSBEF are promoting a "first-ever Europe-wide class action" against Philips, reaching out to over a million potential claimants who have used the Dutch company's ventilators suspected of releasing harmful chemicals.

Alvise Pérez leader of the new Spanish far-right party Se Acabó la Fiesta (SALF/The Party is Over) said that his party is negotiating with at least three groups in the European Parliament while criticising Ursula von der Leyen's "Soviet-like" EU.