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The low-profile moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has pledged to open Iran to the world and deliver freedoms its people have yearned for, has won the country's run-off presidential vote, the interior ministry said on Saturday (6 July).

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Viktor Orbán on Friday that Ukraine must effectively capitulate if it wants peace, in a visit to Moscow by the Hungarian leader that angered the EU, US and Kyiv.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico appeared in public on Friday (5 July) for the first time since a May assassination attempt, railing in a speech against progressive ideologies and backing Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán's visit to Moscow.

Keir Starmer set to work as Britain's new leader Friday (5 July), speaking with world leaders and appointing his ministerial team after his Labour party's landslide general election victory ended 14 years of Conservative rule.

The new Patriots for Europe grouping looks set to become the third largest political force in the European Parliament with Spain’s VOX party leaving the Conservatives and Marine Le Pen’s party likely to join too.

For industries that work with raw materials, the EU Parliament’s shift to the right is being interpreted as a signal from voters that they want more attention paid to the economy.

The mighty bee is increasingly deployed as a key player in maintaining biodiversity through pollination. Bee vectoring technology is just one innovation boosting crop and seed protection, but many alternative pest control methods are getting stuck in research labs.

The Western military alliance has a lot on its plate: Its members have to figure out how to secure defence aid to Ukraine, deal with the impact of China’s relations with Russia, when to use their mutual defence assistance clause Article 5… and how to name new things. 

Germany’s government coalition reached a political agreement on its budget on Friday (5 July), working around a self-imposed borrowing limit with “quite a few tricks”.

The influential Brussels think-tank, Bruegel, has sent a ‘memo’ to Commission President-designate, Ursula von der Leyen, warning her of over-burdening consumers during her likely second term.

On Sunday evening, after the second round of legislative elections, France will have a new National Assembly. If the Rassemblement national and its right-wing allies win an absolute majority - which is unlikely but not impossible - it will be up to the probable new prime minister, Jordan Bardella, to propose a new minister of agriculture.

The Commission might let general purpose AI providers draft their own codes of practice, whereas it also accused Meta of anticompetitive behaviour under the DMA.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán travelled to Moscow on Thursday (4 July) to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, only a few days after his visit to Kyiv, on a trip that earned him stern rebukes from EU officials and diplomats.

Germany will adopt its Medical Research Act, Thursday (4 July), the new law will allow pharma companies to negotiate the price of patent-protected medicines in private.

Formerly sedate attempts at electricity market integration in South-Eastern Europe have been given a new dynamism amid a concrete EU perspective – and a looming punitive CO2 duty.

The EU has set ambitious goals for securing its supply of critical raw materials, which are key to the digital and green transitions. Today we talk to Chad Blewitt, managing director of the Jadar Project, a highly-anticipated and highly-delayed lithium mining site in Serbia. Jadar is operated by Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest mining company.

NATO is set to provide a platform to help its members shape national production strategies, in a new attempt to boost production, Euractiv has learnt.

Hundreds of gigawatts of wind energy projects are waiting for permits to connect to Europe's power grid, a backlog that threatens to slow the shift to green energy, industry association WindEurope said on Friday (5 July).

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (9 July) will make his first visit to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, walking a fine line between maintaining a longstanding Moscow alliance while courting closer Western security ties.

The European Union’s weather satellite agency should review its decision to use US launchers over the European option Ariane-6, MEP Christophe Grudler wrote in a letter sent to the organisation’s board on Thursday (4 July), seen by Euractiv.