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22/06/24 View in Browser Welcome to Euractiv's weekly update bringing you Europe's news from the last five days. If you have feedback about this newsletter, please contact digital@euractiv.com. No RSS items found. 🟨 Monday As EU leaders meet to thrash out top jobs deal, questions over Portugal’s Costa remain  Environment ministers push for more flexibility in first EU law monitoring soil  Member states distance themselves from Parliament on food waste targets  Environment Council adopts its position on the Green Claims Directive  Czech conservative leader not against von der Leyen, Meloni remains cautious  EU nears consensus on child abuse draft law, new agency takes lead on privacy preservation  LEAK: Spain to ask member states for medical aid with Gaza patients  Keynote Speech by Minister Peng Gang at the CCCEU 2024 Europe-China Business Summit [Promoted content]  The Brief – The dinner of frustration  EU Council supports ratification of UN agreement protecting oceans  EU ‘not worried’ as China probes bloc’s pork imports  China opens tit-for-tat anti-dumping probe into European pork  Nature restoration: Austrian conservatives charge Gewessler for abuse of office  The European Green Deal has matured: the path forward  Why Europe needs to rethink its pesticide classifications [Promoted content]  EU countries rubberstamp Nature Restoration Law after months of deadlock  Despite protests, Serbia readies to mine lithium as early as 2028  Sarkozy slams Macron’s call for snap elections, warns of ‘chaos’  Putin to visit Vietnam, sparking US rebuke of Hanoi  Global audiences suspicious of AI-powered newsrooms, report finds  Bold policymaking is vital for transforming Europe’s food system [Promoted content]  Hundreds gather in Kyiv for war-shrouded Pride march  Apple’s ChatGPT integration raises data privacy and competition questions  Russian forces kill Islamic State-linked hostage takers at detention centre  Today’s Environmental Council – closing off the Green Deal and looking to 2040  Netanyahu denounces tactical pauses in Gaza fighting to get in aid  What leaders will discuss at European Council’s dinner  No RSS items found. 🟦 Tuesday  The EU triggers emergency brake on oats imports from Ukraine  EU-China relations could still degenerate into full-blown trade war, analysts say  Lower innovative drug costs not being passed on by pharma firms, say Dutch researchers [Advocacy Lab Content]  Food security at forefront of Hungary’s Council presidency priorities  Strike by Swedish health workers escalates as holiday season approaches [Advocacy Lab Content]  Bulgaria launches nationwide cervical cancer screening to tackle high mortality rate [Advocacy Lab Content]  The Brief – What lessons Europe’s progressives can learn from India’s elections  Sanofi calls for next Commission to boost Europe’s research capabilities [Advocacy Lab Content]  France’s far-right leader Bardella wants to become PM – but with conditions  EU’s centre-right welcomes new members, eyes Belgium’s conservative N-VA    ACCA EU 2024-2029: Three calls to action for a sustainable and competitive Future for Europe [Promoted content]  EU, China and pigs in the middle  Health not a priority in EU Council’s 2024-2029 strategic agenda  French legislative elections: A third of far-right RN MEPs stand as candidates  Putin vows trade, security with North Korea beyond reach of West  Austrian government survives minister gone rogue on EU nature restoration  Campaigning takes off in France for snap election in two weeks  Migrant shipwrecks off Italy leave 11 dead, more than 60 missing  Russia sets closed espionage trial for US reporter Gershkovich  Carbon pricing: Economists question lump-sum payouts to households  What European carmakers really think about the ICE ban  Ukraine’s international bond rework derailed as deadline nears  Netanyahu disbands war cabinet as pressure grows on Israel’s northern border  Disputed Nature Restoration Law finally gets approved in Council  Why EU leaders were forced to delay the bloc’s top job deal  The Trans-Caspian Corridor, a trade route unlocking EU-Central Asia opportunity [Advocacy Lab Content]  No RSS items found. 🟨 Wednesday Hezbollah threatens war against Cyprus if Nicosia keeps helping Israel  EU climate dialogue with China affirms focus on climate finance goal past 2025  Macron’s gravest risk yet may not be the far-right, but the left  EU Commission ups pressure on seven countries’ public spending; spares Estonia for defence investment  Council pushes for tougher stance on farmer seed swaps in new EU law  The Brief – Farage’s UK election tactics means a far-right that is all talk but no trousers  French elections: Candidates’ proposals to lower energy bills hit European law  Privatisation of French public broadcasting possible if RN comes to power  French markets wobble as EU Commission launches deficit procedure  France does not contribute ‘enough’ to EU pharmaceutical sovereignty, lobby says  The New Council Conclusion on the 8th EAP: A new step towards a Water-Smart Strategy [Promoted content]  Cardiovascular disease tops Hungary’s health agenda for EU Presidency  Ukraine’s agriculture and food production not shielded from war, warns agribusiness chief  EU drafts plan to exempt long-haul flights from new emissions rules  US Senate passes bill to support ‘next generation’ nuclear energy deployment  EU centre-right claims Costa is ‘too light’ on migration  US soldier jailed for nearly four years in Russia after love story turns sour  NATO worried Russia may support North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs  As Russia shifts from gas exports to fertilizers, it is time for the EU to act [Promoted content]  Russia in talks with Asia, Latin America partners on deployment of long-range weapons  Europe’s centre backs nature protection  Regions committee’s Cordeiro: Centralising cohesion policy could ‘kill’ the EU project  EU political groups play high-stakes game of musical chairs  🟦 Thursday Next Commission should have mid-term review of digital rulebook, revise audiovisual media directive  EU should have mirrored China’s green tech policy, former French and Irish ministers say  Draft law to detect online child sexual abuse material stalled again  EU organic area reaches 10.5% of agricultural land, but falls short of 2030 target  Netherlands clears EU’s final hurdle for Ukraine, Moldova accession talks to formally start  Kazakhstan seeks more critical raw materials investment from EU [Advocacy Lab Content]  Charges brought against Austria’s Gewessler for rogue nature restoration vote  The Brief – Did Ursula stab Macron in the back?  Health fund of $1.1 bn announced in Paris to support vaccines production in Africa  Nordics agree on military transport corridor ahead of NATO summit  Volt EU lawmakers pick Greens over Renew’s soft hand with far-right  EU Socialists’ in-house negotiations and the future of Parliament’s presidency  Rutte poised to become next NATO chief as Romanian President Iohannis drops bid  Massive stockpiling of medicines increases patient risks, warns EU coalition [Advocacy Lab Content]  German far-right gives up on ID to form own parliamentary group  Sinkevicius’ new mission: Bridging Greens and centre-right EPP  The Hidden Key to Sustainable Buildings [Promoted content]  EU approves 14th Russia sanctions package, includes first-ever LNG sector measures  Shipping industry urges Red Sea action as Houthis sink second vessel  Macron demands schools address antisemitism after Jewish girl raped  Meloni hesitant about Kallas’ nomination for EU diplomacy head  North Korea, Russia sign pact to give all available military help if other is attacked  Charting the Path to Climate Neutrality and Energy Resilience [Promoted content]  Armenia, Azerbaijan trade barbs after France pledges CAESAR howitzers to Yerevan  Conservative ECR now third group in EU Parliament, but Fidesz drops out  From political woes to economic ones: The first roaring week of France’s election campaign  🟨 Friday EIB launches new programme to support strategic technologies  Liberals search top job for Strack-Zimmermann, defence chair a possibility  The Brief – Who cares about competitiveness?  Nature Restoration Law, myths and facts for farmers  NATO considers ‘bridge to membership’ for Ukraine, but details remain unclear  EPP snubs hearing before Brussels court on von der Leyen’s Commission candidacy  EU presidency makes last-ditch attempt to break deadlock on gene-edited crops  EU Commission briefing book leaked, CSAM COREPER vote cancelled  EU-wide industrial strategy and ‘internal labour reserves’: Hungary’s policy priorities for the bloc  EU eyes targeted sanctions, visa restrictions over Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law  REFIT and Reseal: Why the EU Must Uphold the Ban on Trade in Seal Products [Promoted content]  Babiš’s ANO quits ALDE and Renew, leaves behind a ‘mess’  Health Council to grapple with incentives in pharma package  Spain calls for close monitoring of ship movements amidst ‘carbon leakage’ fears  Russian-American woman goes on trial for treason after donating $50 to Ukraine  Europe’s solar power surge hits prices, exposing storage needs  E-fuels: as much import as necessary, as sustainably as possible  Pentagon says Ukraine can US weapons anywhere across the border into Russia  China tells US it would prevail in a Taiwan conflict without using nukes  Israel-Hezbollah hostilities fan fears of widening Gaza war  Italian MEP: Orbán will need ‘written statement’ backing Ukraine to join ECR  The preamble to Meta’s decision to halt AI launch in EU  Pressure to allow asylum processing in third countries mounts on Germany’s Scholz  Niger revokes French operating licence at major uranium mine  Putin does not rule out sending arms to North Korea, US ‘incredibly’ concerned  With national health systems under unprecedented stress, a European Health Union is badly needed  Slovak parliament approves government’s contested public broadcaster revamp  EU centre-right decides future of combustion engines in early July  Far right’s Bardella vows ‘€2 to €3 billion’ cut in French contribution to EU budget  Are national conservatives in ECR aiming for a top job or political power play?  Euractiv Media Network BV: International Press Center Boulevard Charlemagne 1, Brussels, 1041 Belgium Feedback    Update your preferences    Unsubscribe from ALL emails from us    Newsletters