Under pressure from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Platform party, EPP President Manfred Weber approved the nomination of Polish MEP Andrzej Halicki as EPP vice-president despite having previously opposed it on the grounds of gender parity.

Spain's Public Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday narrowly ruled in favour of the inclusion of embezzlement offences in the recently passed and highly controversial amnesty law - a decisive step towards allowing former Catalan separatist president Carles Puigdemont to return to Spain without facing prosecution.

Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has rejected criticism of his coalition government backing the candidacy of António Costa as European Council president, arguing that there has always been a "great deal of convergence" between his Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Costa's Socialist Party (PS) on EU issues.

Russia is discussing with its closest partners the issue of deploying long-range weapons, TASS state news agency reported on Wednesday (19 June), citing Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

Monday’s vote on the Nature Restoration Law showed that left-leaning politicians believe that voters will reward them for supporting nature, while right-leaning politicians believe that their voters can live with more environmental law.

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) is leaving for a trip to Korea and China on Wednesday (19 June), with talks with the Commerce Ministry in Beijing planned on Saturday that will also address the current tensions over the EU’s tariffs for electric vehicles (EVs).

As EU policy-makers mull a reform of the EU’s Cohesion policy that could see regional governments disempowered, Vasco Alves Cordeiro, president of the EU’s Committee of the Regions (CoR), issued a strong warning against this in an interview with Euractiv.

After initially pledging to give up his seat in the European Parliament, MEP Peter Magyar announced on Facebook late Tuesday (June 18th) that he is staying in Brussels to lead the opposition against Hungary's controversial Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

The new legislature's work has unofficially kicked off in Brussels, as per post-election choreography. Freshly elected MEPs are now confronted with the choice to join existing political groups or form new ones

The cereal is the first agricultural product that will be no longer duty free as of Tuesday (19 June), because it exceeded the cap fixed in the latest regulation of temporary trade benefits for Ukraine.

EU-China relations are likely to worsen and could degenerate into a full-scale trade war if key sources of East-West friction are left unaddressed, European and Chinese experts said at a panel in Brussels on Tuesday (18 June).

Lower drug pricing does not follow from an expansion of innovative medicine indications, according to Dutch researchers. They claim pharma companies often fail to pass on their financial gain to patients and health services.

Hungary is set to place food security at the forefront of its agenda as it takes over the EU Council presidency for the next six months starting on 1 July.

Massive healthcare protests continue across Sweden, with 3,300 healthcare workers on strike, operations cancelled, and waiting times prolonged. 

The Bulgarian government decided to carry out a broad cervical cancer screening programme for women across the country in an attempt to get closer to the EU average. The government will provide initial funding of €4.5 million.

As the results of the European elections continue causing political turmoil across the EU and progressive parties are trying to figure out how to win back votes, maybe they should look to their counterparts in India. Against the odds, they made gains against Narendra Modi and his right-wing party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Sanofi is emphasising the strategic importance of Belgium in its pharmaceutical research and development initiatives, while also highlighting the EU's potential to lead an artificial intelligence-driven revolution in medicine, particularly in medicines discovery.

Jordan Bardella, the up-and-coming young leader of France's far-right Rassemblement national (RN), said he would only become prime minister if his party secures an absolute majority in the National Assembly, as a coalition with other political forces would be close to impossible.

The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) group is set to officially welcome 11 new members at a meeting on Tuesday (18 June), but the party leadership is also eyeing a closer alliance with Belgium's N-VA, currently sitting with the hard right.  

Slovakia will support the candidacy of the outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the position of NATO Secretary General, in exchange for assistance from the Netherlands in securing its air defence, President Peter Pellegrini announced on Tuesday (June 18) following the conclusion of an extraordinary European Council meeting.