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In this week’s edition: Turkey+ deal ideas, same-old NATO boss and enlargement brainstorming.

Mercosur countries cancelled trade talks with the EU meant to be held in Buenos Aires starting on Thursday and Friday (29-30 June) in what was seen as an attempt by Brazil's President Lula da Silva to buy time and present a counter-proposal to the bloc's most recent demands.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged the EU’s “unequivocal” support for Ukraine in Kyiv on Saturday (1 July) as Spain assumed the presidency of the bloc, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hit out at foot-dragging over pilot training by “some”...

More than 1,300 people were arrested in France during a fourth night of rioting and President Emmanuel Macron cancelled a trip to Germany as the funeral took place of teenager Nahel M, whose shooting by police sparked nationwide unrest.

Ukraine has been publicly cautious in counting gains in a counteroffensive it launched this month to reclaim territory occupied by Russian forces, and on Friday (30 June) its president and a US general acknowledged that progress is measured in blood.

EU leaders on Friday (30 June) tasked the European Commission to propose legal ways to make use of the Russian assets frozen in the bloc to finance Ukraine's reconstruction.

In a fresh agreement on the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), EU countries want to further increase targets for domestic processing of strategic raw materials, despite public commitments that processing should be done in resource-rich partner countries. 

Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen on Friday (30 June) answered allegations by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the EU was “bankrupt”, which he had published earlier on social media.

While most European citizens are aware of their right to elect their representatives from the local to the EU level, not all know about the participatory and deliberative initiatives which give citizens a say in decisions affecting them across the...

EU lawmakers and stakeholders called out on Thursday (29 June) the lack of data on youth mental health, saying that this prevents them from understanding the scope of potential issues and ways to address them. 

While food affordability is topping the list of concerns of European citizens, some politicians - like Spain's right-wing PM candidate - seem to not look at prices that much (or even set foot in a food market).

The police killing of a teenager on Tuesday (27 June), and the riots it has sparked across France, casts a big shadow over the success of President Emmanuel Macron’s plan of '100 days of appeasement, first introduced after the approval of a much-decried pensions reform in April.

EU leaders failed to resolve a bitter dispute on reform of the bloc’s migration rules after Poland and Hungary refused to back down in their standoff with the 25 other EU leaders. 

Central and Eastern European countries display low ambitions with their National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), raising concerns about the region's ability to meet EU climate goals, campaigners warn. 

EU ministers and the European Parliament have reached an agreement on a Farm Sustainability Data Network meant to boost sustainability in agriculture by collecting and sharing on-farm data.

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced on Friday (30 June) what he termed "unacceptable" attempts to use the recent death of a teenager at the hands of the police to spread riots across the country.

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.    “The Data Act will ensure that industrial data is shared, stored and processed in full respect of European rules.”...

Despite the hydrogen economy still being in its infancy, Europe is already buzzing with new projects, as governments and private investors raise their ambition and inject billions into the development of the clean-burning fuel. In this special report, EURACTIV looks...

A group of 10 EU leaders met informally on Friday (30 June) on the sidelines of a summit in Brussels to 'brainstorm' what the bloc's enlargement could mean for its future.

The idea that digital platforms can only moderate illegal content under national law is a grave mistake and a gift to those running disinformation campaigns, writes Clara Jiménez Cruz. Clara Jiménez Cruz is the chair of the European Fact-Checking Standards...