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The UK Labour Party, widely expected to win the general election on 4 July, has announced that it will ban bottom fishing in all national marine protected areas, a move that could strain EU-UK relations two years ahead of the renewal of their trade agreement.

The question of how to reduce emissions from agriculture remains very much open, and the clock is ticking for the EU to become carbon neutral by 2050.

French voters go to the polls this Sunday (30 June) for the first round of snap legislative elections – but the country’s two-round first-past-the-post system makes projections complex and political tactics numerous, ultimately benefiting the surging far-right.

Striking a balance between the needs of farmers, consumer demands and sustainability will likely define the agrifood policies during the new European Commission mandate.

The leader of the French far-right Rassemblement National Marine Le Pen said again that it is her party's role to choose the future French EU Commissioner, showing muscle against the President, two days before the legislative elections.

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A senior EU official pushed back on the IMF's recommendation that countries should pursue policies that encourage the diffusion of new technologies, arguing that the EU must sometimes introduce “protecting” measures to ensure its own economic security.

The EU should provide food chain operators with a common framework for food systems that aligns all industry players towards sustainability, Dirk Jacobs, FoodDrinkEurope's director general, told Euractiv in an interview.

A potential victory of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) in France’s snap legislative elections has sparked fears of a wider Euroscepticism wave across the bloc, compounding the far-right's surge in the recent EU elections.

During the European elections campaign, many political parties in Bulgaria and other countries in the EU’s east attacked the European Green Deal. But when several hundred stakeholders gathered at a Green Transition Forum in Sofia, their message was that they wanted to make the best of the project and the EU funding.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday (28 June) called for the building of "bridges" in the global economy, as Beijing grapples with economic and security disputes with its neighbours and trading partners around the world.

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A defunct Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter for about an hour and adding to the mass of space junk already in orbit, US space agencies said.

The leader of centre-right Partido Popular (PP/EPP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, said on Thursday that Spain’s leader Pedro Sánchez could call snap elections this year due to his ‘weak progressive coalition’, which depends on support from Catalan and Basque separatists.

After weeks of silence from Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) over an investigation that revealed members of the party's youth group praising Mussolini and far-right terrorists during their meetings, Senate President Ignazio La Russa condemned their actions while Giorgia Meloni has yet to comment.

Human errors were made in the triple election that took place in Belgium on 9 June, according to experts, which granted 16-17 year-olds, who were allowed to vote only in the European elections, to also vote in federal and regional elections.

Apple's decision not to launch its own artificial intelligence (AI) features in the EU is a "stunning declaration" of its anticompetitive behavior, EU Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday (27 June).

President Joe Biden delivered a shaky, halting performance while his Republican rival Donald Trump battered him with a series of often false attacks at their debate on Thursday (27 June).

The Slovak parliament passed on Thursday (June 27) the so-called “Lex Assassination”, a widely criticised package of measures that the ruling coalition claims should improve the security situation in Slovakia following the assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Despite concerns, the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) of Marine Le Pen signals that nothing will change in the Franco-German relationship if a prime minister from their ranks takes over in France, but below the surface, the EU’s engine could grind to a halt.