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🟨 Monday

Hungary wants new approach to manage growing drug shortages [Advocacy Lab Content]
Paris, gold for the greenest of Games? [Advocacy Lab Content]
Is Europe’s hydropower potential tapped out? [Advocacy Lab Content]
Commission must act on critical raw materials strategy, say MEPs [Advocacy Lab Content]
TikTok faces EU Commission’s second probe, potential suspension of reward program
Europe has yet to achieve a genuine green industry deal
Greens challenge socialists on commitment to climate action
Vaccine-preventable disease is on the rise in Europe
New EU debt? Conservative think-tank warns of NextGen ‘design flaws’
The Brief – Is the EU losing Georgia?
Europeans locked in Patriot games as Ukraine pleads for more air defence
Left-wing groups to push for keeping green rules for farmers
EU elections: What’s in for European farmers?
Poland ‘ready’ to host nuclear weapons, Polish president says
Tackling modern slavery: EU finally has a tool [Promoted content]
German, French far-right clash again – this time over Mayotte’s status
Is Buildings Renovation Bad News for Households? [Promoted content]
Germany, Poland and France: Recasting a Green Weimar Triangle
How regulatory stability, enhanced coordination and joint funding are crucial to transform European Industry
TikTok says US House bill that could ban app would ‘trample’ free speech
Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election
Moldovan opposition announces new election bloc at Moscow event
Portugal to mark 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution
What’s in store for the last Strasbourg plenary before June’s European Elections
Western military aid to Ukraine closes spending gap with Russia – SIPRI report

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🟦 Tuesday

European Medicines Agency makes recommendations to improve supply of critical medicines
Paris Olympic Village getting climate fit for 2050 [Advocacy Lab Content]
Polish patient education needed to boost clinical trial success [Advocacy Lab Content]
Centre-based treatment in Czechia yields results, but costs soar [Advocacy Lab Content]
Parliament backs temporary trade benefits for Ukraine paving the way to talks for long-term agreement
Cancer mortality in Bulgaria is growing, while treatment costs double [Advocacy Lab Content]
The Brief – How Ursula von der Leyen’s pet project fell flat
Belgian Presidency continues push to fight medicine shortages [Advocacy Lab Content]
EU Parliament ratifies Right to Repair Directive
Reduce Dutch cancer care inequalities with a ‘Health in All Policies’ approach, say cancer advocates [Advocacy Lab Content]
European Parliament adopts fiscal rules reform amid warnings of austerity risk
Game on. Tackling the impact of large-scale sporting events [Advocacy Lab Content]
EU Parliament votes to strengthen protection for human trafficking victims
Parliament pushes through changes to rules on grassland despite left-wing opposition
Commission to simplify RRF audits despite recent fraud scandals
Negotiations for EU defence industry programme likely to face delay
Emails reveal how Bolt tried to shape Estonia’s opposition to gig work directive
EU vows to double efforts as Lebanon requests migrant return support
EU economy ‘stronger than five years ago’, von der Leyen tells parliament
Europe saw record number of ‘extreme heat stress’ days, report warns
EU Parliament overwhelmingly approves key telecoms regulation: price reductions down the road
China spy probe: Staff member of German far-right AfD lead candidate arrested
EU Agri-Food Value Chain Calls on Lawmakers to Ensure a Low Carbon Food Future [Promoted content]
Ukrainian agriculture minister suspected in corruption scandal
EU’s 2050 net zero goals at risk as EV rollout faces setbacks
German conservatives push for national ban on Russian agricultural imports
Senegal’s new leader calls for ‘rethought’ relationship with EU
Centre-right EPP fails to topple EU ethics body against tight majority
Russian man gets 5 years labour for street interview about Ukraine war
Morawiecki, Orbán plot reshuffle in EU Parliament with Le Pen

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🟨 Wednesday

Sánchez says he will step back to ‘reflect’ on whether to resign
Frontline and facing forward, the EESC’s next generation strategy [Advocacy Lab Content]
Next-generation farming, sowing the seeds of data-driven agritech success [Advocacy Lab Content]
Next generation farming powered with AI product innovation [Advocacy Lab Content]
Le Pen’s No.3 in EU race accused of complicity in crimes against humanity, torture
TikTok ‘voluntarily’ suspends Reward Program amidst European Commission concerns
EU Space Law: Commission official reveals details on cybersecurity aspects
Nuclear gains favour in Europe, but financing struggles remain [Advocacy Lab Content]
Parliament gives final nod to loosen green requirements for farmers
New Schengen rules add migration ‘instrumentalisation’ as cause for EU border closures
UEFA’s on the ball with EURO 2024 climate agenda strategy [Advocacy Lab Content]
EU adopts first directive combatting violence against women
Parliament wants to ease seed marketing rules for conservation efforts
The Brief – Letta report has everything and nothing to do with June elections
Rogue German left party says support for new EU Parliament group sealed
Crafting Value: How Europe’s Leather Sector Shapes Environment and Society [Promoted content]
European Health Data Space clears the last hurdle in Parliament
Amazon’s Anthropic investment latest to face antitrust headwinds with UK Competition inquiry
EU parliament approves corporate supply chain law
Over half of world’s largest private firms fails to set net-zero emissions targets
Madrid endorses Ribera to become Spanish Commissioner
EU, US should mull ‘transatlantic single market’ pact after elections – Letta
Gig-gling at last: EU adopts gig work directive
Critical Medicines Alliance to Act?
EU opens investigation into Chinese medical device procurement
Beet growers urge France to authorise pesticide already used in other European countries
Researchers urge Europe to ’embrace’ deindustrialisation
Chinese spy probe: MEP Krah stays EU lead candidate for German far-right party AfD
Putting people first: why healthy buildings matter
Italy marks fascist defeat amid TV censorship row

🟦 Thursday

ECR adopts manifesto but snubs lead candidate pick amid rifts
Space agency director thinks EU space law would have GDPR-style outsized impact
The Brief – When little Olaf meets big Xi
Building the European Diplomatic Academy [Promoted content]
ECB should not only target inflation – France’s Macron
Parliament endorses EU emergency team to combat the entry of crop-damaging pests
A smart industrial policy to fast-charge Europe’s electric vehicles revolution
Safety concerns hold back adoption of unmanned water vessels
Reducing reporting requirements means slashing workers’ protection, trade union chief warns
Macron at Sorbonne: Energy key to French president’s ‘new European paradigm’
EU lawmakers debate the future of the Green Deal ahead of elections
Last plenary, last scandal? Far-right speaks out
EU parliament adopts law to enable longer cross border freight trains
European city leaders call for more power to pass road safety laws
New EU regulation on human tissue and blood safety passed by European Parliament
Generational renewal, the EU’s unfinished business
The case for a European Green Industrial Deal
Germany, France table reform of European defence cooperation scheme
China harbors ship tied to North Korea-Russia arms transfers, satellite images show
Pro-Palestine student demonstrations in US gain speed
Poland’s Duda insists on NATO allies to spend 3% of GDP on defence
Kyiv issues restrictions on passports for military-age men
Supporting access to critical medicines: Viatris’ commitment in Europe [Promoted content]
Portugal’s democracy turns 50: Thousands to commemorate Carnation Revolution
Three parties neck-and-neck in race for second spot in Bulgarian elections
Pedro Sánchez: EU Socialists’ star on the brink of collapse, EPP takes dig
North Macedonia nationalist rides high in first round of presidential election
EU Parliament approves new rules to reduce, reuse and recycle packaging
‘Strategic failure’: France’s Raphaël Glucksmann takes aim at Macron’s geopolitics
Right-wing bloc votes against bid to make anti-harassment training mandatory in Parliament

🟨 Friday

Von der Leyen to avoid TikTok in very ‘personal’ campaign
Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence
German Green’s minister Robert Habeck under fire over 2022 nuclear shutdown
Critical Medicines Alliance is ‘wake-up call’, says French minister of industry
The Brief – The curious case of ‘partnership’ in the AI landscape
CAP simplification will get more and more complicated
Pfizergate: Belgian court to hold hearing amid competence row with EU prosecutor
Vestager says probes into Chinese firms are not a message to Beijing
Vamos a la fábrica: Reindustrialising away from Germany?
Shein added to EU digital rulebook’s ‘systemic risk’ list
EU agriculture ministers push for raising ‘de minimis’ state aid for farmers
TikTok suspends reward program, Bolt tried to influence platform work directive
Alarming rise in E-cigarette use among European teenagers, warns WHO
Macron pitches ‘made in Europe’ to guarantee prosperity in ‘Sorbonne II’ speech
Greece’s Mitsotakis insists has no interest in EU job after June elections
Cocoa growers face production shortage as EU anti-deforestation rules loom
Ireland says UK’s Rwanda policy drives migrants over its border
Energy taxation directive: No progress expected before EU elections
German far-right in crisis mode ahead of EU election campaign kick off
China passes ‘nuclear’ tariff law as tensions with trading partners simmer
Pedro Sánchez: Three scenarios ahead of Monday’s decision
Letta’s tech insights: Taking a dive into the report
India election heats up after charged Modi comments about Muslims
German chancellor’s party banks on far-right fears for EU election comeback
US and allies aim to help Ukraine bolster defenses after aid gap
France’s Le Pen ‘vigilant’ over AfD, delays decision until after elections
Romanian Orthodox Church welcomes Moldovan priests wanting to join
EU Socialists accuse EPP of supporting ‘fascist tactics’ to topple Sánchez
Palestinian authorities seek probe into mass graves at Gaza hospitals
Tripling renewables: European G7 leaders need to turn words into action

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