A potential victory of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) in France’s snap legislative elections has sparked fears of a wider Euroscepticism wave across the bloc, compounding the far-right's surge in the recent EU elections.

During the European elections campaign, many political parties in Bulgaria and other countries in the EU’s east attacked the European Green Deal. But when several hundred stakeholders gathered at a Green Transition Forum in Sofia, their message was that they wanted to make the best of the project and the EU funding.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday (28 June) called for the building of "bridges" in the global economy, as Beijing grapples with economic and security disputes with its neighbours and trading partners around the world.