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Ireland’s pharmaceutical industry is advocating for a new medicines funding boost in the government's ‘Budget 2025’. The IPHA says a budget bump would allow for the reimbursement of the 36 new medicines which they intend to apply for in 2025.

The Commission is pushing for better enforcement tools for the Digital Services Act, the EU's landmark content moderation law, in two documents, including provisions on protection of minors, regulation of influencers, and addictive design.

The EU’s Medicines Agency (EMA) rejects market authorisation for early intervention Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi (lecanemab) due to concerns over side-effects.

Measures the new EU Commission will set out for insurers in the second half of the year risk thwarting policymakers’ efforts to boost Europe’s competitiveness and private funding capacity if not re-calibrated differently, the sector has warned.

Regions cannot authorise the hunting of wolves if their population numbers are still low at the national level, as is the case in Spain's Castilla Leon region, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said on Monday (29 July), weeks after upholding strict protection measures in Austria.

France suspects members of far-left groups were behind the sabotage of the country's high-speed rail network last week just as the Olympic Games were about to begin, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday (29 July).

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his opposition rival Edmundo Gonzalez were each claiming victory in a presidential election on Monday morning (29 July), after a vote marked by accusations of underhand tactics and isolated incidents of violence.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed on Sunday (28 July) to "relaunch" cooperation with China, signing a three-year action plan during her first official visit to Beijing since taking office.

Britain's government declared the country was "broke and broken" ahead of an assessment of the public finances on Monday which the newly-elected Labour Party will use to blame their predecessors for a 20 billion pound (€23.7 billion) shortfall.

A groundbreaking medicine presented at the Munich International AIDS conference could be a game changer, but the cost is prohibitive.

Europe can survive without Russian oil. Hungary, Slovakia, and Czechia are no exceptions, even though they lobbied hard for exemptions from the EU's ban on Russian oil imports after Russia invaded Ukraine, writes Martin Dimitrov.

The German government is going on a telecom spending spree with a new telecom law, seemingly against industry stakeholders' views and its own decision to tighten the purse strings.

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen has announced that her new Commission will unveil a ‘Vision for Agriculture and Food’ in the first 100 days in office, but associations are calling for animal welfare to be included in it as von der Leyen did not mention the topic in her investiture speech in the European Parliament.

Hungarian officials will face a dressing down and boycotts from the EU’s national parliaments at this weekend's meeting of COSAC, an oft-overlooked EU institution that national lawmakers see as one of the few tools to make their voice heard in Brussels. 

At the first Informal Health Council of the Hungarian EU Council Presidency on Thursday (25 July), State Secretary Péter Takács promised ‘creative thinking’ on the pending pharmaceutical package.

The European energy commissioner and the US energy secretary used a meeting of Central and Eastern European energy ministers in Bucharest this week to keep EU-US clean tech competition on a friendly footing.

The European Commission has initiated infringement procedures for Belgium, Spain, Croatia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Sweden, asking them to comply with the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), according to a Friday (26 July) press release.

A group of digital rights organisation said that Apple’s plans to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) are ineffective in a submission to the European Commission.

Aylo, Pornhub's parent company, is appealing to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to avoid having to disclose the natural names of users in its ad repository, as required by its Digital Services Act (DSA) designation.

Water management and storage systems raise questions in southern European countries, while a French movement is preparing protests over water reserves for farmers and aims to mobilise citizens up to the Venice lagoon in northern Italy.