French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) has vowed not to oppose President Emmanuel Macron's pick for prime minister, said party figurehead Marine Le Pen and party leader Jordan Bardella over the weekend, adding that Michel Barnier would instead be judged on his performance.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a peace conference with Russia on Sunday, a move the far-right AfD saw as a sign the government was bowing to its pressure.

The pro-nuclear lobby in Brussels and the EPP are reportedly pressuring European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen not to appoint Spanish Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera as her new climate commissioner, with speculations in Madrid now suggesting Ribera will instead be presented with the powerful competition portfolio.

Greece plans to impose a 20-euro levy on cruise ship visitors to the islands of Santorini and Mykonos during the peak summer season, in a bid to avert overtourism, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday (8 September).

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is in China's capital Monday (9 September) for talks with top officials including President Xi Jinping, keen to boost economic ties despite a trade standoff between Beijing and the EU.

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The Kremlin refuses to cancel next month’s elections in the Kursk border region despite Ukraine’s ongoing offensive there, deeming it “only a local crisis” from a military perspective, said three Russian officials familiar with the election preparations.

Venezuela's former presidential opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia has left for Spain in the wake of the South American country's contested election, Venezuelan and Spanish officials said on Saturday night (7 September).

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged unwavering support for Ukraine after a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (7 September), in which they discussed Kyiv's plans to end the war with Russia and reconstruction efforts.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday (7 September) made the first visit by a British leader to Ireland in five years, vowing to "reset" damaged post-Brexit relations between the neighbouring nations.

More than 100,000 left-wing demonstrators rallied across France on Saturday (7 September) to protest against the nomination of the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister and denounce President Emmanuel Macron's "power grab".

Ukrainian politicians and cultural figures on Friday (6 September) slammed a screening of a Russian-Canadian filmmaker's war documentary as propaganda, a claim the director denied.

Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano quit on Friday (6 September) after controversy over a consultancy role for his former mistress that had become an embarrassment for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government.

As Brussels raises concerns about the next European Commission resembling a "men's club," President Ursula von der Leyen is standing firm on the need for gender balance among the nominees.

A leak suggests that the portfolios Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is about to announce are tailored more to individual countries' interests rather than addressing the broader European agenda, writes Cristina Vanberghen.

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The new Chair of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI), Antonio Decaro MEP (Italy, S&D), issued harsh criticism of the cuts to EU health funding agreed by the European Council in February. 

Estonia has revealed that Moscow was behind a series of cyber attacks targeting of several Estonian ministries in 2020, in a rare move that publically accuses another state actor of a cyber-attack.

Tomaž Vesel, Slovenia’s nominee for European commissioner, has withdrawn his candidacy amid pressure from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Slovenian government sources confirmed on Friday (6 September).

Michel Barnier never forgave Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for attending Emmanuel Macron’s 'Renaissance European Campus' in Bordeaux last year, arguing she had given the French leader undue political credit and support.