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In a speech on Tuesday, the UK prime minister is expected to urge Labour and other opposition parties to “come forward with your own views and ideas” on what post-Brexit Britain should look like.

Massimo D'Alema, a social-democratic prime minister in the 1990s, said that Matteo Renzi's term was "not so brilliant" and that the Five Star Movement is "unable" to run the country.

“It is possible that a crime has been committed,” car type-approval authority RDW said about the emissions strategy used in a Suzuki Vitara.

Tens of thousands demonstrated on Sunday against president Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a rally of Turkey's main opposition party in Istanbul. The Republican People's Party's leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, had launched a 450-kilometre march after a parliamentarian from his party was imprisoned in June. The march grew into a protest over Erdogan's crackdown on people with alleged links to terror groups, launched after last summer's failed coup attempt.

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker agreed at the G20 summit in Hamburg to start the provisional application of the EU-Canada free trade deal (Ceta) on 21 September this year. Some chapters, for instance on the investor court system, will not be applied. The accord will enter fully into force once all EU member states ratify it.

Despite the EU's protests, the Hungarian government has managed to turn the country's media into a propaganda machine. Now the theme that dominates the airways, cables and billboards is: Soros using the EU to transport migrants.

The leaders of five political groups said that the UK's offer on citizens' rights was a “damp squib” that risks “creating second-class citizenship”.

The US president will be back in Europe for France's Bastille Day, while the EU and Ukraine will hold a summit in Kiev, and MEPs will discuss migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean.

Marathon meeting between Trump and Putin, as well as violent street protests, stole the headlines of a G20 summit on global warming and trade.

The ESM, the eurozone emergency fund, agreed on Friday to unblock a new tranche of aid as part of the bailout programme agreed upon in 2015.

EU member states on Friday appointed Mariya Gabriel as European commissioner for digital economy and society. Gabriel, a former MEP, replaces Kristalina Georgieva as the new Bulgarian member of the EU executive body. Her nomination was confirmed by the European Parliament earlier this week. She will take office on Monday and is due to serve until the end of the commission's mandate on 31 October 2019.

The EU is right that diplomacy is key in deterring cyberattacks. Yet, more political decisiveness and coordination are required to be successful.

While many say they seek a solution to the refugee crisis, the answer might be – quite literally – right in front of your face: digital technology.

US and Russian leaders to meet for about 30 minutes in the margins of the event at the same time as plenary talks on global warming.

The European Parliament on Thursday voted to suspend EU membership talks with Turkey. MEPs supporting the move argued that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown on opposition and the press, go against EU values and democratic criteria. Ankara warned that suspending talks would be a "terrible mistake". The parliament, however, has little say in the process. EU member states are divided on whether to continue accession talks with Turkey.

The US president's first visit to Poland on Thursday resulted in warm words, but few concrete solutions for Central Europe.

With the code of conduct Italian authorities are trying to impose on NGOs that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, people would be forced to endure additional days at sea while states tussle over which port to send them too.

Reunification talks between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders collapsed early Friday without a deal, said UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, who also took part. The discussions had been described as the "best chance" for a deal since the island was divided in 1947. Sources said Turkey insisted on maintaining their military presence on the island after reunification, whereas the Greek side wanted the withdrawal of all 35,000 Turkish troops.

EU states are running out of time to comply with migrant relocation quotas on Italy and Greece, the Commission has said.

EU countries have declined to help Italy by opening their ports to migrants, but aim to expel more people and impose “rules” on NGO rescues.