Portugal's foreign minister, Paulo Rangel, said on Monday that the candidacy of António Costa to chair the European Council was still on the table but warned that work must continue until this week's meeting.

International crime boss Evelin “Brendo” Banev, convicted of cocaine trafficking and money laundering in Bulgaria, Romania and Italy, voluntarily surrendered to Bulgarian authorities on Monday morning, with border police investigating how he entered the country.

EU Commission Vice President Věra Jourová believes voters in the recent EU elections issued a yellow card to the EU policies, especially on climate.

The World Forum for Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, and Biotechnology (ACEHMA) took place in Frankfurt, Germany, where Economic Affairs Minister Robert Habeck highlighted the crucial role of these industries in driving economic growth and social progress.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán opposes the way majority countries are handling discussions over the division of the EU's top jobs, adding it is excluding others, according to comments made during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who, for her part, remained silent. 

The Pentagon said on Monday (24 June) that Ukraine makes its own targeting decisions after the Kremlin directly blamed the US for an attack on Crimea that it said was carried out with US-supplied ATACMS missiles.

Jordan Bardella confirmed Monday (June 24) that he intended to abolish France's "droit du sol", birthright to citizenship, after the snap elections, and said he would restrict Schengen space to EU citizens only.

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The next European Commission should have a commissioner with a social economy portfolio, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister and Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz said on Monday.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday (26 June) to violating US espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia, ending a 14-year legal odyssey.

Ahead of the EU leaders’ meeting on Thursday and Friday (27-28 June), German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted for the next European Commission to conclude more free trade agreements (FTA) with third countries – without consensus among EU member states if need be.

The forthcoming report by former Italian prime minister and former European central bank president, Mario Draghi, on the future of European competitiveness is a valuable opportunity to shape the EU policy agenda for the coming EU legislative term and beyond.

The leaders of Ireland's three governing parties agreed on Monday (24 June) to nominate Finance Minister Michael McGrath as the country's representative on the European Commission, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The European Union will downgrade high-level contacts with Georgia and consider freezing financial aid to the Georgian Dream-led government after it pushed through a controversial "foreign agent" law earlier this month.

German and Polish defence ministers, meeting for talks with their French counterpart on Monday (24 June), warned against the risks of a French government coalition with the far-right and stressed that support for Ukraine was "not open for debate".

Poland is open to join two Franco-German landmark defence projects that are supposed to yield a European-made fighter jet and battle tank, the country's defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Monday (24 June). 

The European Council has adopted a recommendation on vaccine-preventable cancers that aims to slash deaths from cervical cancer.

EU countries slammed Russia for overfishing in the Baltic Sea, a region that has seen its fish stocks decline dramatically in recent years, during a meeting of the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) on Monday (24 June).

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced hope on Monday (24 June) that EU and Chinese negotiators will reach a deal on electric vehicle (EV) tariffs before 4 July - the day European duties on Chinese carmakers are meant to come into effect.

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