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US President Joe Biden will look to deepen his relationships with King Charles and British Prime Minster Rishi Sunak during separate meetings on Monday (10 July) in which Ukraine and climate change are expected to dominate the agenda.

The Libyan coastguard fired multiple times while two boats of the NGO SOS Mediterranée were conducting a rescue of eleven people in distress in international waters on Friday (7 July).

Environment and health groups are pushing for more robust measures to protect EU citizens’ fundamental right to health and clean air, in a joint letter sent to MEPs on Thursday (6 July). 

The European Union’s nature restoration law may not be perfect and will touch the lives of millions of people, including farmers, fishers and foresters. But we should not let this become an excuse to give up and kill it next week, as some are suggesting, writes Paul Polman.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought home from Turkey on Saturday (8 July) five former commanders of Ukraine’s garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year. Russia immediately denounced the release. Kremlin...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday (8 July) that he was pressing Russia to extend a Black Sea grain deal by at least three months and announced a visit by President Vladimir Putin in August.

The US announced on 7 July that it would supply Ukraine with widely banned cluster munitions, and NATO's leader said the alliance would unite at a summit next week on how to bring Ukraine closer to joining.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's coalition government collapsed Friday (7 July) over "insurmountable" differences on how to tackle migration, with elections expected in November.

The European Commission proposed on Friday (7 July) that EU countries jointly quit an international treaty that has been criticised for blocking efforts to fight climate change because its protection of energy investments extends to fossil fuels.

As the EU seeks to reduce its economic dependence on China, the Dutch parliament held a debate over ways to safeguard national interests while remaining open to dealing with the country.

More than two years after being finalised by negotiators, the treaty that governs relations between the European Union and the 89 members of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific community remains unratified.

The newly launched unitary patent system adopted by 17 member states is expected to boost Europe’s competitiveness and support SMEs and startups, according to the European Patent Office, which hopes more countries will join the system in the coming year.

School’s almost out for the summer. After next week’s Strasbourg plenary session, EU lawmakers won’t have to make their monthly schlep to the Alsace for almost two months. The July Strasbourg session is typically a relaxed affair, the agenda kept to a minimum as MEPs wind down.  But not this year.

According to an old Greek Proverb, a society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.

European biofuel companies have reiterated calls for the European Commission to intervene to dampen the flood of Chinese biofuels entering the EU market, arguing that Chinese manufacturers are fraudulently exporting biodiesel made from restricted feedstocks.

EU governments are poised to shoot down plans aimed at making it easier for non-EU nationals to live and work across the bloc, according to a draft position the Council is going to adopt, obtained by Statewatch and EURACTIV.

Luxembourg will be exempt from reaching NATO's 2% GDP defence spending target to take into account national specificities in assessing its commitments, EURACTIV has learnt.

Austria and Switzerland officially joined the German-led European Sky Shield (ESSI) air defence programme as they signed a declaration of intent on Friday (7 July).

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed Amazon acquisition of smart vacuum cleaner manufacturer iRobot, over concerns that it could restrict the competition in the product's market.

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