Italian anti-fascist activist Ilaria Salis was released from house arrest in Budapest after she was elected a member of the European Parliament (MEP) at the weekend, her lawyer Gyorgy Magyar told Reuters on Friday (14 June).

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffled his cabinet on Friday (14 June) to boost the government's battle with a cost-of-living crisis, but kept his foreign and finance ministers in place to show policy continuity.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are investigating alleged Russian cyberattacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as possible war crimes, four sources familiar with the case said.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.

Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta is pausing its plans to roll our artificial intelligence tools in Europe, following a request from Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), the firm said in a Friday (14 June) blogpost.

BRUSSELS, June 14 (Reuters) - The European Union failed on Friday to agree a 14th package of sanctions against Russia, EU diplomats said, as Germany held out over the extent to which EU companies would be responsible for sanctions violations.

Officials from the 27 EU countries have been debating for more than a month on a package including a ban on Russian LNG trans-shipments and a plan to make EU operators responsible for sanctions violations by subsidiaries and partners in third countries.

Ambassadors were set to discuss and decide on the issue on Friday evening, but the sanctions topic was withdrawn from the meeting agenda at the last moment. The ambassadors are next due to meet on Wednesday.

The late Friday meeting had been meant to reach an agreement before a Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland this weekend.

Hungary, Russia's closest EU ally, was previously holding out, but appeared willing to accept the sanctions package, which requires EU unanimity.

However, EU diplomats said that Germany expressed reservations about the impact on its industry of the clause on third country subsidiaries and partners.

Under the sanctions package, the EU was also set to ban from its ports ships that have contributed to Russia's war effort.

This could include the transport of goods generating significant revenue for Russia, goods or technology used in the defence and security sector or shipment of fuels outside the G7 price cap system. (Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop, Jan Strupczewski and Julia Payne; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

After weeks of wrangling, EU ambassadors late Friday (14 June) evening, agreed in principle on the negotiating frameworks for the accession negotiations of Ukraine and Moldova.

On 1 July, Hungary will take over the Presidency of the Council of the EU from the Belgians. Euractiv has seen and reviewed Hungary's indicative plan for energy, transport and the environment during its six months as Council President.

NATO members discussed options for how to ringfence the alliance's Ukraine support and training coordination, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday (14 June), however in preparation for the July summit, a lack of concrete pledges remains.

Farmers worldwide have voiced concerns about new EU legislation against greenwashing, which they say penalises natural animal-derived fibers like wool and cashmere.

With Germany in the throes of economic stagnation and political infighting, the only thing that could lift Europe’s largest economy out of the doldrums, it seems, is success in football at its home tournament.

Despite the drama in France, where President Emmanuel Macron responded to Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement national, coming first with 31% of the vote by calling  early national elections, the much-hyped surge of the far-right in this weekend’s European elections turned out to be somewhat limited.

As widely anticipated, the week was dominated by trade tariffs headlines. Two of the European Commission's top officials - trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis and vice president Margaritis Schinas - coordinated the EU executive's announcement on Wednesday

French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for a snap election on 30 June has upset the European political landscape, including that of agricultural policies, particularly in France, the biggest agricultural country in the EU.

After intense negotiations, the leftist Popular Front alliance presented its program at noon on Friday (June 14), three weeks before the early parliamentary elections to be held on June 30 and July 7.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Friday (14 June) Moscow would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four provinces claimed by Moscow, demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender.

Stronger sanctions are needed to reign in the growing Russian threat in the Baltics, Baltic Sea states' foreign ministers said on Friday (14 June), voicing concern about Russian hybrid threats and the unmarked oil tankers deployed to circumvent sanctions.