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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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Most EU member states’ national strategic plans for the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) prioritise economically supporting farms at the expense of ambitious environmental measures, a study for the European Parliament found.

The European Commission's impact assessment and update on the EU's pesticide cuts plan sparked mixed reactions among stakeholders and lawmakers, sparking calls to stop stalling the reform and caveats about consequences for European agriculture.

The European Court of Auditors' (ECA) review of the digitalisation of the EU funds, published on Thursday (6 July), described the current landscape of the systems used by the European Commission to manage funds and planned developments.

European institutions agreed on Thursday (6 July) on the modalities to establish the fund to boost ammunition and missile production in the bloc, but postponed the negotiations on some regulatory waivers to a later stage.

After decades of conflict, three years of consecutive drought, and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, Afghanistan remains one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises with over a third of its population acutely food insecure.