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Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will meet US President Joe Biden in Washington on Monday (5 June), amid speculation that the White House will use the visit to vet her as the first female NATO secretary-general.

Three more Europeans have been released by Iran in return for Iranian diplomat Asadollah Assadi as part of a prisoner swap in which Iran released Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele last week, a spokesperson for the Belgian government said.

After a rocky start to a week of negotiations, around 170 countries agreed to develop a first draft by November of what could become the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution by the end of next year.

The EU's financial aid provided to the 'frontline' countries neighbouring Ukraine has been controversial, with the €100 million support package funded with Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) money to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia extensively criticised by all sides.

The control of the EU’s food traditions should remain firmly in the hands of the EU executive, according to the European Parliament, which adopted its position on overhauling the EU’s food quality scheme on Thursday (1 June).

One year after EU governments backed Ukraine’s status as a candidate to join the bloc, Kira Rudik, a senior lawmaker in Kyiv, says that the country is on track for EU accession - but it needs political support from the bloc as much as ever.

Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton reiterated his support for nuclear, calling it a promising sector and a means to decarbonise the EU, as French MPs questioned him on the EU response to the US Inflation Reduction Act on Thursday (1 June).

In a sign that world geopolitics is shifting before our eyes, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said ahead of the ongoing summit of the BRICS states that the global order needs a rebalancing away from the Western powers, asserting the BRICS' wish to provide the necessary counterweight. 

Any further restrictions on auto emissions need to be imposed carefully and only after serious deliberation, with concern shown for both manufacturers and consumers.

Head of the European Parliament Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), Pascal Canfin,  wants to hold a hearing with agrochemical giants Bayer and Syngenta after researchers accused them of withholding information on the brain toxicity risk of pesticides. 

A group of pro-Ukrainian forces said on Friday (2 June) they were fighting Russian troops on the outskirts of a village just inside Russia's western border, a day after Moscow said it had repelled three cross-border attacks.

The Spanish government has requested the postponement of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s speech to present the country's EU Council presidency at the European Parliament, originally scheduled for 13 July, to the September plenary session. 

In Cluj-Napoca, Romania, both young and senior citizens can take part in participatory budgeting processes implemented by the municipality and local organisations. These processes allow residents to propose and vote initiatives which are then funded through the local budget. To...

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The European Parliament adopted its recommendations for the EU's response to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on Thursday (1 June), calling for national strategies and boosting innovation. 

The European Commission has recently launched its first call for companies to jointly buy gas on international markets via the EU Energy AggregateEU Platform, and while it offers smaller companies access to new gas suppliers, it raises questions related to EU competition law, writes Ernesto Bonafé and Simina Suciu.

Organised crime operations between Russia and Ukraine had flourished since the 1990s along with vast corruption. The Russian aggression has disrupted those links, although they persist.

Opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom polls suggest could be Spain's next prime minister, admitted Thursday (1 June) he didn't speak English but brushed it off saying there were always "translators".

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Albanian prime minister mediating with Vucic in Moldova, the German Greens calling for Hungary’s EU presidency stint to be postponed, and so much more.

Serbia’s President Aleksander Vučić said that meeting European leaders in Chisinau is essential not only because of the situation in the north of Kosovo but also for EU progression, investments and energy. Read more. European leaders met in Moldova for...