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Russia’s war against Ukraine has placed the EU’s relationship with the UK in an entirely new, more geostrategic context. Post-Brexit normalisation has already taken place with the Windsor Agreement. As we approach the next regular meeting of the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in Brussels on 3-4 July, the relationship is gaining new momentum.

The topics of AI definition, high-risk classification, list of high-risk use cases and the fundamental rights impact assessment will be on the table of the Council this week as the Spanish presidency prepares to dive headfirst into negotiations.

The hefty carbon footprint of global shipping networks that crisscross our oceans and keep the world's economy afloat will come under scrutiny this week, as countries wrestle over measures to slash planet-heating pollution.

Bulgaria has won its battle with the European Commission which had intended to label rose oil as a chemical that carries potential health risks, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food announced on Sunday (2 July).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Poland's ruling PiS party demanding the opposition PO withdraw from the EPP or ensure Manfred Weber is no longer the group's head, Chancellor Olaf Scholz saying he's good leader withiut be

The leader of the far-right party VOX, Santiago Abascal, indirectly accused radical Muslims living in the European Union of fuelling and masterminding recent rioting and looting in France. The French authorities are still on alert in Paris, although the sixth...

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood team debriefs the agriculture ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg and looks ahead at the “Food and Biodiversity Package,” a set of legislative proposals expected from the European Commission on Wednesday. Over in New York, Gerardo Fortuna spoke...

Yevgeny Prigozhin's media holding group is to shut down, the director of one of its outlets said, highlighting the mercenary chief's worsening fortunes a week after the collapse of a brief mutiny staged by his Wagner Group fighters.

As the European Parliament debates how European health data space should be shaped, the co-rapporteur of the file has warned that the agreements regarding the secondary use of data were the hardest to reach. 

The scented stands of pine trees stretching along France's southwestern Atlantic coastline were reduced to charred stumps and stacks of blackened timber by the massive fires that ravaged the tourist hotspots of the Landes forest last summer.

The European Commission’s plan to reshuffle cohesion funds to finance innovative technologies is heightening concerns over the repeated use of the EU’s place-based policy to address new emerging needs and EU’s recentralising tendencies.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the Open Balkan initiative had fulfilled its mission, and it is time to look at the path to EU membership as the capital of Tirana is set to hold the Berlin Summit in October....

The European Union is considering a proposal for Russian Agricultural Bank to set up a subsidiary to reconnect to the global financial network as a sop to Moscow, the Financial Times said on Monday (3 July).

Anti-government Serbia against Violence protests were held in 15 Serbian cities on Saturday, with the largest gathering being in Belgrade, where protesters pelted the building of TV station Pink with toilet paper. Protests, which have spread across the country following...

Sibiu is set to be the NATO command centre for the southern flank of the alliance, Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana said on Sunday. The military decision has already been made, while the political decision will be made at the...

Bulgaria’s lawmakers, except the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the radical pro-Russian Vazrazhdane, who make up 60 of the 240 MPs – have proposed a declaration supporting Ukraine’s expected future NATO membership once the war ends. Under the proposed declaration, the...

Rioters rammed the home of a Paris suburb mayor, set the car alight and launched fireworks at his wife and young children as they fled during a fifth night of unrest over the police shooting of a teen of North African descent.

Konštrukta-Defence, the Slovak-owned arms company, and Ukraine’s KZVV company will co-develop new Howitzers, though this could be brought to an immediate halt if anti-Ukraine parties win September’s elections. Ukraine’s KZVV company wants a functional prototype of the tailor-made motorised cannons...

The South American trade bloc Mercosur opens a two-day summit Monday (3 July) with a deal with the European Union on the agenda, but few expect leaders to reach consensus on how to fulfill EU demands on environmental protections.

Czech authorities are investigating activities of a Russian cultural centre operated by the sanctioned Moscow state agency, Rossotrudnichestvo, which is still operating in the Czech Republic, according to Czech Television. The Russian cultural centre, also known as the Russian House,...