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Dear readers, Welcome to EU Politics Decoded where Benjamin Fox and Eleonora Vasques will bring you a round-up of the latest political news in Europe and beyond every Thursday. In this edition we look at the row over the EPP’s...

Europe needs to prioritise CO2 sequestration and provide a business case to avoid losing out on industrial competitiveness to the US, argues Zoltán Szabó.

Alexis Tsipras, the former prime minister of Greece and leader of the main opposition Syriza party (EU Left), resigned on Thursday (29 June) following a poor showing in a national parliamentary election and will not run for the party’s presidency.

In the countdown to the mid-century’s EU net zero deadline, it will be crucial to ensure that strategic sectors remain globally competitive. And there is no time to lose, 2050 is only one investment cycle away.

Europe’s forests must be restored to strengthen them against new threats brought about by climate change, but communities, local knowledge and foresters need to be at the heart of this to make it a success.

Authorities in Kazakhstan have detained a Russian cybersecurity expert wanted by the United States, his employer said on Wednesday (28 June), as authorities in Moscow issued a court order in an attempt to pre-empt his extradition.

Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, has reportedly turned down the post of French prime minister and the incumbent Élisabeth Borne, who is increasingly out of grace, particularly after enforcing an unpopular pension reform, is still likely to keep her job.

Spain will double its 2030 biogas production target and almost triple its green hydrogen goal as part of a broad upgrade of its energy and climate ambitions, a draft of the government's strategy showed on Wednesday (28 June).

Due to having smaller economies than the US or eurozone, venture capital markets in Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary are often overlooked by investors outside of the region, but some angel investors see them as fertile ground for seed investments.

As the Philippines is nearing the status of an upper-middle income country, which would see it lose preferential treatment in EU trade policy, it is trying to seal trade relations with the EU by means of a free trade agreement with the bloc, its secretary of trade and industry said in an interview with EURACTIV and Borderlex.

The European Commission on Wednesday (28 June) called for international talks on the dangers and governance of geoengineering, saying such interventions to alter the climate posed "unacceptable" risks.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany signalling an openness to chip in for the EU budget, Slovenian primary schools preparing to offer low-income kids free meals, and so much more.

German MEP Michael Gahler and Austrian MEP Thomas Waltz criticised the EU’s envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav Lajčák, during Wednesday’s meeting of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET), citing a failure in progress and the bloc’s one-sided approach...

School meals will be free for primary school children from poor-income households from September, and for all primary school children from 1 September 2027, according to a bill that got unanimous backing in parliament on Wednesday. The bill that an...

Romanian lawmakers passed the special pension reform requested by the European Commission on Wednesday, though several last-minute changes diluted the law. The special pension reform is an essential milestone for Romania’s third payment request under the national recovery plan. While...

The €5 million support Slovak farmers will be compensated for the losses they incurred following the recent influx of agricultural goods from Ukraine is small compared to the actual calculated loss of €200 million, Slovakia’s Agriculture Minister Jozef Bíreš said...

Polish President Andrzej Duda and his Lithuanian and Ukrainian counterparts, Gitanas Nausėda and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met in Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss the importance of strengthening NATO’s presence on the Eastern Flank, ahead of the NATO summit in Vilnius. As...

Uncertainties over nuclear capacity in France will likely result in electricity prices remaining high over the coming winter, France's energy regulator, RTE, has warned amid forecasts pointing to electricity prices in the EU soon seeing a downward trend.

 Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa stressed the importance of concluding the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur as it is a priority to deepen Portuguese-Brazilian relations, he said during a discussion with Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin on Wednesday....

Italian opposition parties are up in arms and have called the coalition government’s decision to postpone the much-awaited ratification of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the Eurozone’s bailout fund, embarrassing.