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Hungary's foreign minister on Monday (29 July) accused his Polish counterpart of lying, as simmering tensions concerning Warsaw and Budapest's differences over Ukraine erupted into a diplomatic spat.

In a significant move towards digital transformation, Ireland’s Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, has unveiled the Health Information Bill 2024. This landmark legislation, once enacted, will lay the legal groundwork for digital health records in Ireland.

Ireland’s pharmaceutical industry is advocating for a new medicines funding boost in the government's ‘Budget 2025’. The IPHA says a budget bump would allow for the reimbursement of the 36 new medicines which they intend to apply for in 2025.

The Commission is pushing for better enforcement tools for the Digital Services Act, the EU's landmark content moderation law, in two documents, including provisions on protection of minors, regulation of influencers, and addictive design.

The EU’s Medicines Agency (EMA) rejects market authorisation for early intervention Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi (lecanemab) due to concerns over side-effects.

Measures the new EU Commission will set out for insurers in the second half of the year risk thwarting policymakers’ efforts to boost Europe’s competitiveness and private funding capacity if not re-calibrated differently, the sector has warned.

Regions cannot authorise the hunting of wolves if their population numbers are still low at the national level, as is the case in Spain's Castilla Leon region, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said on Monday (29 July), weeks after upholding strict protection measures in Austria.

France suspects members of far-left groups were behind the sabotage of the country's high-speed rail network last week just as the Olympic Games were about to begin, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday (29 July).

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his opposition rival Edmundo Gonzalez were each claiming victory in a presidential election on Monday morning (29 July), after a vote marked by accusations of underhand tactics and isolated incidents of violence.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed on Sunday (28 July) to "relaunch" cooperation with China, signing a three-year action plan during her first official visit to Beijing since taking office.

Britain's government declared the country was "broke and broken" ahead of an assessment of the public finances on Monday which the newly-elected Labour Party will use to blame their predecessors for a 20 billion pound (€23.7 billion) shortfall.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday (28 July) warned the United States that if Washington deployed long-range missiles in Germany then Russia would station similar missiles in striking distance of the West.

Germany's domestic politics has recently stabilised after a turbulent spring. While Europe faces fresh instability, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government in Germany has taken steps to solidify its position.  

President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday (28 July) that Turkey might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, though he did not spell out what sort of intervention he was suggesting.

Israel's security cabinet on Sunday (28 July) authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to decide on the "manner and timing" of a response to a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 teenagers and children.

Venezuelans turned out in their millions Sunday (28 July) to elect a president amid high tension marked by official attacks on the opposition candidate challenging incumbent Nicolas Maduro.

France's interior minister said he could not rule out foreign involvement in an attack that sabotaged signal stations and cables on the country's high-speed rail network, causing travel chaos on the opening day of the Olympic Games.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday (26 July) that if they vote for him this November, "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Saturday (27 July) Russia's leadership was "hyper rational" and that Ukraine would never be able to fulfil its hopes of becoming a member of the European Union or NATO.

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell on Saturday (27 July) called for a "political solution" to end the "madness" in Gaza after the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said an Israeli strike on a school had killed 30 people.