Commission goss confirmed by our @anupriyadatta.bsky.social

Macron and Starmer launch 'permanent' HQ in Paris for the coalition of 31 countries looking to provide post-ceasefire security guarantees for Ukraine A step towards formalising a body that today met via videocall But how 'permanent' is an HQ that will 'rotate to London after the first 12 months'?

Add it to the list of Labour oofs www.euractiv.com/section/eet/...

CENSURE: As expected, vote on censure of von der Leyen Commission fails: For: 175 Against: 360 Abstain: 18 Interesting to see where those 18 came from...

VdL’s censure has been (rightly) dismissed as political theatre. So let’s talk about how the show looked and sounded. It was exciting. My most head-in-the-sand mates texted me about it. People noticed this happened. So, what can pro-EU MEPs learn from their dalliance with drama? For @euractiv.com

Schengen at 40: Border checks become the new normal

Sneak peak at the much-anticipated European Competitiveness Fund via @wulffwold.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: EU prosecutors open probe into far-right group linked to Le Pen

“Ursula von der Leyen is being hauled to the podium today to answer to a far-right MEP whose boss can't get over having lost the Romanian election. You could get 72 MEPs to agree on just about anything” Clarity ahead of the absurdity set to unfold in Stras in an hour - via @eddywax.bsky.social

Sorry Brussels Playbook but the US and China are not "Europe's two biggest trade partners" if that means the EU, not even close. Bit closer to home you'll find an EU trade relationship €200bn larger than that with China.

Given their dominance around the Council table, the EPP's pre-summit meetings – where they align and strategise – are arguably as consequential as the main summit. But there's a familiar figure exerting himself there – and not everybody's thrilled. Via our Berlin head honcho Nick Alipour 👇

He was the EU’s great Brexit survivor. Can Maroš Šefčovič now pull off a trade deal with Trump?

The EU’s 2040 #climate goal is likely to affect Europeans’ wallets – and those of the companies they work for. But whether a 90% cut in Europe's greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 will bring net costs or benefits depends on how #EU leaders choose to implement the target.

Struggling to follow the MFF debate? Here’s how the EU's current €1.2 trillion budget is spent, and how it may (radically) change for 2028-2034 www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

The trouble with trilogues – when things start falling apart

Leaked by the WSJ last week, denied by the EU's top US trade official earlier this week, not really brought up by EU leaders yesterday. Then, Trump suggests today DMA/DSA enforcement could be on the table as EU-US trade talks tick towards 9 July deadline. w/ @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social

@euractiv.com EUCO liveblog www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

Blockbuster edition of the Capitals today - Huawei-gate scoop - Interview with EU rightwing chief Manfred Weber - An ECR attempt to bring down the Commission - and we tee up the EUCO summit today @nicolettaionta.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

Blogging all day from the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels Migration, Middle East, and Merz on debut Tune in 👇

NEW: An investigation by @euractiv.com (with De Standaard & Le Vif) unveils the testimony given to police by the lobbyist at the centre of Huawei’s cash-for-influence scandal in the EU Parliament. Via @nicolettaionta.bsky.social and our new Chief Brussels Correspondent @elisabraun.bsky.social

Curious timing for this message after weeks of reluctance to back this Sunday's Budapest Pride... Socialist leader Iratxe Garcia met von der Leyen today, and reportedly wanted reassuring of VdL's centrist pro-European chops amid the anti-greenwashing law debacle. Is this an olive branch? 👀

Sandeel row latest via @maria-simon.bsky.social

🚨 A post-Qatargate lobbying crackdown is causing major rifts in the EP. S&D, Greens, Transparency Int'l & UN experts warn it echoes “foreign agent” laws in Russia, Georgia & Hungary - threatening civil society, but centre-right EPP group is ready to push it through. W/ @eddywax.bsky.social

EU funding turns sour: How a Croatian anti-corruption NGO fell out with Brussels

Brexit citizens' rights: UK tweaked the immigration rules in a few areas yesterday – incl. the maximum allowable absences for Europeans with pre-settled status Can now be absent for 2.5 years in a 5 year period and remain eligible for full settled status (which they'll be automatically upgraded to)

Tucked away in the Commission's daily news: the EU extends its data adequacy decision with the UK until December - allows transfers to continue. The UK's new Data Act became law last week - Commission 'assessing' its adequacy (as if adequacy/equivalence decisions are ever line-by-line comparisons)

🔵 Good early morning from The Hague, where #NATO leaders meet for what could be the alliance’s most contentious summit in years amid #Trump, #Iran and #Russia’s continued war in #Ukraine. Follow all @euractiv.com live updates from our team on the ground: www.euractiv.com/section/defe...

Trump’s car, metals tariffs ‘unsustainable’, says EU trade chief

Italy withdraws support for EU anti-greenwashing law

Assisted dying will become legal in England and Wales after the bill today passed its final Commons stage. Historic day in Westminster MPs were not whipped to vote throughout – & debate was often highly emotional Today's amendments mean ministers will also review palliative care after 1 year

Returns legislation is on the agenda for the EU leaders' summit next week - and one of its biggest advocates could be getting cold feet... via @nicolettaionta.bsky.social

Brexit law UK/EU reset implemented as regards extending fisheries and energy rules in Brexit deal 1/ fisheries I eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... fisheries II eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... energy I eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... energy II eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

One month on from the EU-UK reset, attention turns to which products get carve outs from ‘dynamic alignment’ under the SPS deal Two candidates: Foie gras (Britain wants to ban it on animal health grounds) and smoky flavouring (EU to ban it on human health grounds) via @maria-simon.bsky.social

Germany, Britain close in on summer signing for landmark ‘triangle’ treaty  

EPP allies with far-right to investigate ‘occult’ NGO funding

Last month Roberta Metsola threatened legal action against the Commission for bypassing MEPs over the SAFE loan scheme Now, in a letter seen by @nicolettaionta.bsky.social, von der Leyen said this was "fully justified" Whole thing reads like a long, polite "see you in court"

Spain says grid operators to blame for blackout? I'm old enough to remember when @nkurmayer.bsky.social blamed France

As everyone basks in their individual outrage over the Austrians suggesting Russian gas should make a comeback in peacetime, @euractiv.com readers knew about this yesterday already www.euractiv.com/section/eet/...

I’m back at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in glorious sunlight for two days of reporting for Euractiv with @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social Scoops? Send em our way

Fantastic report using drone footage of the frontier which goes some way to explaining why the four-way post-Brexit negotiations concerning Gibraltar (including the EU, UK, Spain and Gibraltar) have taken four years now. Deal needs doing before new EU Entry/Exit system arrives in October.

EXCLUSIVE: Von der Leyen responds to MEPs on Huawei lobbying loopholes

My interview with Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn: On the post-Brexit ‘reset’, what dynamic alignment on food would mean for business in NI, and selling the deal to the Unionist community

Why Merz’s migration crackdown is failing. A court ruled that Germany's new border policy is effectively unlawful. It will hardly change the reality on the ground. http://dlvr.it/TL9p2N

A proper EU politics story atop The Capitals this morning: the row over passenger rights - Old legal row re-opened - EU countries split along national interests - Aggressive industry lobbying - Consumer association upset Why your delayed flight could soon cost you more, via @eddywax.bsky.social 👇

Wake up, babe, the EU's new untintelligible competitiveness 'compass' just dropped! Out: Pillars (which compasses famously have in abundance) In: Whatever this is

Not that I'm pessimistic, but my tracker for UK-EU reset legal agreements runs out to the end of 2029 Unlikely to see the core elements (SPS, ETS, YES, Electricity) all in place even by next year PDF with clicky links: bit.ly/UshGraphic141 1/

Looks like the homepage editors at @businessinsider.com are having some fun with the fact 21% of the newsroom have been laid off amid Springer's pivot towards AI...

NEW: 60 MEPs from five political groups say the Commission must be "visibly present" at Budapest Pride Say VdL's 'do not travel' advice shows "weakness and a lack of solidarity" with Europe's LGBTQ community The latest fallout from @thomasmangin.bsky.social's stellar reporting for @euractiv.com

The death toll in Robert Fico’s bear cull currently stands at 23 That could be approx. 12 tonnes of bear meat available for Slovak children’s lunchboxes - complete with parasitic Trichinella worms Via @nkurmayer.bsky.social

Latest development in Slovak bear story - Deputy Environment Minister Filip Kuffa says from next week meat from several hundred bears subject to a nationwide cull will be offered to restaurants (after appropriate checks have been carried out). Background here: robjcameron.com/journalism/c...