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French President Emmanuel Macron's surprise announcement on Sunday evening (June 9) that he was dissolving the National Assembly and calling early parliamentary elections has put a halt to debates on the long-awaited end-of-life bill.   

The European Commission opened a new foreign subsidies investigation into a commercial acquisition that would see UAE state-owned Emirates Telecommunications Group Company (e&), be in 'sole control' of the European telecom operator PPF Telecom, according to a press release.

Very popular in social networks close to the Spanish far-right, Luis “Alvise” Pérez achieved on Sunday’s European elections what polls had predicted and his “ultra” formation Se acabó la fiesta (The party is over) made history entering the European Parliament with three MPs, deploying a disruptive speech that has captivated 800.000 voters outraged by politics.

The announcement by President Emmanuel Macron that he is dissolving the National Assembly and calling snap elections caught me (and the rest of the world, probably) by surprise just two minutes before I went live on TV on Sunday night.

The results of the European Parliament elections suggest a shift towards the center-right, but it is too early to determine if there will be a second term for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Monday (10 June) morning.

The newly-formed AfD EU delegation has decided not to include controversial leader Maximilian Krah, implicated in several scandals, in a bid to rejoin the far-right ID group that expelled it last month.

The United States stepped up pressure Monday (10 June) for a Gaza ceasefire with a call for a UN Security Council vote on a truce as it redeployed Washington's top diplomat to the region scarred by eight months of war.

The global population is projected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050. To meet this growing demand, animal protein production must increase overall by an estimated 20% over the next two decades. Amid the complex landscape of geopolitical tensions and economic challenges the world is facing, securing food supply for the future will need to take a “One Health” approach; a concept that’s been recognized for over a century that animal, human, and environmental health are inextricably linked to safeguarding public health.

Around 90 countries and organisations have registered to take part in the Ukraine Peace Summit hosted by Switzerland next weekend, the Swiss government confirmed on Monday (10 June). Switzerland is hosting the conference at the request of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr...

In today's special edition of the Capitals, please find out more about how the European elections went down in all the member states.

The results of the EU elections have had a bigger impact on many EU countries than the European Parliament itself. 

Romania is sending far-right politicians to the European Parliament for the first time, but AUR's lower-than-expected score has mainstream parties in the country breathing a sigh of relief.

The GERB party of former prime minister Boyko Borissov (EPP) won convincingly the country’s early parliamentary elections and the European vote but the country registered its second lowest-ever turnout of 31.8%. 

Liberal opposition party Progressive Slovakia (PS/Renew) emerged victorious in the European elections in Slovakia with 27.8% of the vote and six seats, beating Robert Fico’s Smer-SD (NI), initially seen as the frontrunner, which secured 24.8% of the vote and five seats. 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party came out on top in the European elections in Hungary on Sunday, the party's weakest ever EU election result, as the opposition made gains.

The controversial far-right coalition of Přísaha and Motoristé made significant gains in Czechia’s European elections, securing two seats and emerging as the country’s third party.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (KO, EPP) scored 37.4% in the European elections in Poland on Sunday the vote, with Law & Justice (PiS, ECR) trailing close behind with 35.7%, meaning both are expected to send 20 MEPs to Brussels.

The Partido Popular (PP/EPP), the main opposition party, received the most votes, 34.19% of the ballots cast, giving them 22 seats, while the socialist party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE/S&D) came second with 30.18%, 20 seats, and the far-right VOX party, third with 9.62%, six seats.

A 25-year-old independent candidate who became known as an influencer on YouTube and TikTok was the big surprise of the EU elections in Cyprus as he managed to rank third and become elected as an MEP.

Pro-EU parties are ceding political space to far-right Eurosceptic groups in their European election campaigns by failing emphasise the EU's positive impact on ordinary citizens, experts say.