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In today’s edition: Belgium urges EU backing for coordinated deportations to Afghanistan, the US Secretary of War meets NATO chiefs as EU ministers debate aid for Ukraine, and MEPs say Ursula von der Leyen supports a renewed push to end daylight saving time

EU Specialty Food Ingredients urges continued EU support for competitive, innovative, resilient and sustainable food systems, emphasising regulatory efficiency, investment in innovation and collaboration across the agri-food chain to meet climate goals and global challenges.

Fico argues that local elections should “reflect what happens in the parliamentary vote”

Sustaining support to Ukraine will be high on defence ministers' agenda, albeit with an elephant in the room: Europe's thus far limited participation in NATO's PURL initiative

S&D leader says all Europeans should be able to afford a clean, made-in-Europe electric car

‘Europe risks becoming a follower in a field it helped pioneer’, they said in a letter

Overall turnout was low, with only 39.07% of voters casting a ballot

‘We are the most expensive group of patients in all of the Nordic countries,’ says Katri Asikainen, president of Finnish patient group HARSO

After years of America weaponizing its control of global chokepoints, Beijing showed it could respond in kind – something it can only do because the West ignored earlier wake-up calls

EU defies Trump on shipping emissions – but experts doubt the deal can sail without US support

"It's no secret that the more national caveats there are ... the harder it is for SACEUR to respond", said US ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker

AI enthusiasts warn that this key piece of the Commission's 'AI in science' plan may be too little, too late, even as universities sound more optimistic

Sweden’s COVID-19 vaccine policy sparks debate over age thresholds and economic trade-offs

According to media reports, the Social Democrats were unimpressed with the compromise struck with their coalition partners

Millions of Europeans still do not know that there is a link between cancer and alcohol, says MEP Romana Jerković

The EU’s new migration plan is already running into resistance, as capitals clash over who should take in asylum seekers

If Europe is to find its way in a changing world, the discontent on display in Belgium should be seen as another alarm, rather than the butt of a joke

Iceland is pushing to export its geothermal expertise to Europe and China at the same time

Suspending the pension law wins the prime minister breathing room ahead of confidence vote