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Global Justice Network (GJN) and Italian consumer rights organisation ADUSBEF are promoting a "first-ever Europe-wide class action" against Philips, reaching out to over a million potential claimants who have used the Dutch company's ventilators suspected of releasing harmful chemicals.

Alvise Pérez leader of the new Spanish far-right party Se Acabó la Fiesta (SALF/The Party is Over) said that his party is negotiating with at least three groups in the European Parliament while criticising Ursula von der Leyen's "Soviet-like" EU.

With two years of economic stagnation and insolvencies on the rise, analysts are divided on how to interpret the current state of the German economy.

Europe is still running behind in the global scramble to secure the green supply chains of the future. China’s decades’ long planning and investment, and the US’s more recent surge of support, risk leaving our continent in the dust.

The recently adopted electricity market reform sees the state becoming a major financial intermediary in the European electricity sector, with implications for its approach to recovering costs

Roberta Metsola has been re-elected as president of the European Parliament as she won in the first round of voting with 562 votes at the Parliament’s inaugural plenary sitting in Strasbourg Tuesday (16 July)

The ongoing pharma package negotiations were marked by Belgium’s focus on combating medicine shortages and shaping the incentives system for new medicines development. Key issues remain in play for Hungary, including parallel imports.

In an interview with Euractiv, the outgoing chair of the European Parliament's Environment Committee (ENVI), Pascal Canfin, called on lawmakers from the centre-right European People's Party, who supported farmers' strikes, to embrace a more ecological approach.

The left-wing parties of the New Popular Front (NFP), whose ad-hoc coalition managed to beat the far-right Rassemblement national (RN) in the snap legislative elections, are now at loggerheads over the name of a new prime minister.

YouTuber-turned-MEP Panayiotou ran an X poll to decide whether he will vote for Ursula von der Leyen.

Soon after Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, freight shipper Hellmann Worldwide Logistics informed staff at its Moscow business it was pulling out of Russia. Some people who had worked for the German company saw an opportunity.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Romania tripling its annual culling quota for bears, culling, NATO’s Stoltenberg against Poland shooting down missiles over Ukraine’s skies, and so much more.

Some lawmakers in France's left-wing bloc said they should focus on winning the speaker's role to show they have command over parliament even though they are well short of a majority and are struggling to form a government after a snap election.

The EU announced sanctions on Monday (15 July) against five Israeli individuals and three entities, describing them as responsible for "serious and systematic human rights abuses" against Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Waving flags and dressed in Spain's red and yellow colours, tens of thousands of people jubilantly greeted the country's triumphant Euro 2024 men's football team on Monday during a parade in Madrid.

The EU has to assess its priorities, as well as enact institutional and budgetary change to achieve its defence goals, writes the Charlamagne Group. 

For the first time, the European plastics industry is united to redesign the plastics system and achieve net zero emissions. Learn why ‘the Plastics Transition’ roadmap is being considered as a profound cultural shift for the plastics industry.

Romanian MPs approved a law to manage the country's bear population in Monday’s extraordinary session, agreeing to triple the annual culling quota after one killed a young woman in the Carpathian Mountains last week.

There is a real risk that Bulgaria will lose money under the EU Recovery Plan, Bulgarian Commissioner Iliana Ivanova said in an interview with bTV on Monday, citing the lack of a stable government.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg opposed the idea that Poland could shoot down Russian missiles over Ukrainian regions close to the Polish border, as requested by Kyiv.