| The Commission published its final work programme late last night with a final twist: the withdrawal of the AI liability directive, write Euractiv's Anupriya Datta and Théophane Hartmann.
Policymakers’ discussions of Europe’s so-called investment gap are often reminiscent of a dysfunctional couple debating how to repair a leaking roof: everyone agrees something must be done, but no one has any practical ideas about how to fix it, writes Euractiv’s Thomas Moller-Nielsen. Meanwhile, EP President Roberta Metsola spoke on the phone with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to congratulate him on his reelection and discuss the need to address the situation in the Middle East, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Iran. “At a time of geopolitical shifts, EU-US relations must be reinforced,” she said. Pro-nuclear lobbying at the EU level is set to double its firepower, writes Stefano Porciello, as European industrial organisations meet in Paris, to launch a new business alliance for the technology.
Finally, a new fund could smooth the politics that bedevilling cross-border electric power links, a new report by Brussels-based think tank Bruegel found. | 
