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The reconstruction of production facilities like oil depots or agricultural facilities to get the economy on its feet again is a top priority as this would allow Ukraine to restart its exports and have some financial inflows, Ukraine’s deputy minister...

Russia's top diplomat reassured Egyptian leaders Sunday (24 July) that their orders for Russian grain would be met as he began a tour of African countries dependent on imports for their food supply.

Thousands of Hungarians marched in Budapest on Saturday (23 July) to defend LGBTQ rights, a year after the passage of a law widely described as discriminatory.

Trade unions called Monday for the European Commission to impose maximum temperature limits for outdoor workers after three people died while on a shift in Madrid during last week's withering heatwave.

The European Union needs a new strategy on the war in Ukraine as sanctions against Moscow have not worked, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Saturday (23 July).

Unions, port officials and the French authorities blamed Brexit on Saturday (23 July) as thousands of holidaymakers faced long delays trying to reach Europe via the English Channel port of Dover.

Russian missiles hit Ukraine's southern port of Odesa on 23 July, the Ukrainian military said, threatening a deal signed just a day earlier to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and ease global food shortages caused by the war.

The World Health Organization on Saturday (23 July) declared the monkeypox outbreak, which has affected nearly 17,000 people in 74 countries, to be a global health emergency -- the highest alarm it can sound.

The US is exploring whether it can send US-made fighter jets to Ukraine, a White House spokesman told reporters on 22 July, as the conflict with Russia is about to enter its sixth month and fighting rages in eastern Ukraine.

EU member Lithuania has lifted a ban on the rail transport of sanctioned goods into and out of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Russia's RIA news agency said on Friday (22 July).

Ukraine and Russia on22 July signed to a landmark deal aimed at relieving a global food crisis caused by blocked Black Sea grain deliveries, ending months of negotiations and sending wheat prices tumbling to levels last seen before Moscow's invasion.

There are big gaps between the health of refugees and migrant versus the health of host country population in Europe, Santino Severoni, director of the WHO’s Health and Migration Programme, told EURACTIV.

While monkeypox cases continue to grow and the World Health Organisation is deciding whether this outbreak should be announced as an 'emergency of international concern', the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended approval for another vaccine against the disease.

A close ally of Viktor Orbán is amongst those bidding for national TV licenses in Serbia, indicating the further spread of a model of media capture that has been exported from Hungary to nearby countries in recent years. 

North America currently dwarfs the EU on carbon capture and storage though it seems like the Franco-German duo is on its way to embracing such methods. Those were the main takeaways at an climate event on Wednesday (20 July) in Paris, also attended by EURACTIV. 

It is well established that in the world of international summitry and diplomacy, a handful of countries rule the roost. The G7, G20, OECD, and UN Security Council are dominated by the same group of countries. The Global South is almost entirely shut out but most of the time, few notice. 

French lawmakers in the lower house adopted a government-tabled emergency bill earmarking €20 billion to tackle inflation and the resulting social risks in the early hours of Friday (22 July). The bill still requires the Senate's approval to become law.

The European Commission gave Hungary a final month to address its concerns about the rule of law before asking European Union governments to suspend some of the funds Hungary is to get under the bloc's 2021-2027 budget.

The German government has announced that it will bail out Uniper, one of the world’s largest gas importers, who had been hung out to dry by Russian gas supplier Gazprom, for €15 billion.

Europe's thirst for oil and gas to replace sanctioned Russian supply is reviving interest in African energy projects that were shunned due to costs and climate change concerns, industry executives and African officials said.