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North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski announced Saturday (16 July) that Skopje had reached a compromise with Bulgaria in a long-running dispute, allowing them to start European Union membership talks.

For most football fans, the announcement last year that twelve of Europe’s richest clubs planned to set up their own self-selected ‘Super League’ was a step too far by the game’s greediest.

Lawmakers in North Macedonia may vote this weekend on a French-brokered deal aimed at settling disputes with Bulgaria and clearing the way to long-due European Union membership talks, a parliamentary official said on Friday (15 July).

The EU is being urged to take a tougher stance on the political crisis engulfing Tunisia ahead of a referendum in ten days that could entrench the increasingly autocratic in one of the last standing democracies from the Arab Spring. 

The head of the company running the former McDonald's Corp chain in Russia told RBC TV that producers of French fries are refusing to supply to the country and warned that attempts to increase domestic processing are fraught with difficulties.

EU4Health programme funds were made available for the Ukrainian health system on Friday (15 July), making another "historic step" in EU's Ukraine's partnership, EU's health chief said. 

Germany's agricultural sector and environmental experts are divided over the European Commission's proposals to gradually restore farmed peatlands to their natural state, with one saying it will cause arable land losses and the other viewing it as beneficial for food security.

European Union countries are considering alternatives to an EU plan to use a carbon market reserve to help finance their exit from Russian gas, as some fear the proposal would undermine the bloc's main climate change policy.

The five remaining contenders to be Britain's next prime minister will go head to head in the first of three televised debates, hoping a good performance will boost their chances in a battle that so far has no clear frontrunner.

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Experts and activists in the EU called for more diverse participation of citizens in co-decision tools, pointing to the key role of information campaigns in raising awareness and boosting citizens’ competences.

Do you hear the farmers sing? Because there have been a lot of angry men (and women) taking to the streets recently.

EU and Southeast Asian nations will hold their first full summit in December, a sign that the two blocs are looking for closer ties amid concerns over security threats from China and Russia, officials told Reuters.

Governments across Europe are investing in infrastructure for the production and transportation of natural gas to replace imports from Russia. This is warranted to some degree, yet risks an over-expansion and fossil lock-in, write Friederike Altgelt and Martin Albicker.

Italy's government hangs in the balance, yet again. Despite war and economic turmoil destabilising the world, the culprit here is one this country has seen many times before: a political party struggling for its survival.

The proposed new rules on substances of human origin (SoHO) aim at providing both donors and patients with a future-proof and harmonised framework for transplants and donations while maintaining some limits on the supply side of these therapies.

The Commission on Friday (15 July) started an infringement procedure against Hungary for its discriminatory fuel price policy and took Budapest to EU court over a law banning LGBTQ content to minors and the closure of an independent radio station.

Germany’s energy intensive industries, hard-hit by record prices and over-dependence on Russian gas, will receive €5 billion worth of subsidies after the EU’s competition authority gave its green light to the scheme.

The European Union has "shot itself in the lungs" with ill-considered economic sanctions on Russia, which, unless rolled back, risk destroying the European economy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday (15 July).

The production of solar panels is virtually monopolised by China, which makes no secret of its disdain for democratic values. In the absence of a solar industrial strategy, Europe’s dependence on Chinese crystalline silicon solar supply chains will only deepen, warns Mark Widmar.