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The chemical industry in Germany has overcome its low point, but the previous model of exporting basic chemical has come to an end, Chemical Industry Association VCI said on Monday (8 July).

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday (8 July) to discuss a potential Ukraine peace deal, paying the unexpected visit to Beijing days after his talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin angered some European Union leaders.

Billions of euros in cohesion funds were misspent in recent years due to the European Commission and member states’ failure to implement appropriate financial safeguards, according to a report published on Monday (8 July) by the European Court of Auditors.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew into Moscow on Monday (8 July) and warmly hugged President Vladimir Putin on a visit that treads a fine line between maintaining a longstanding relationship with Moscow and courting closer Western security ties.

Today the European Union launches a rocket into space for the first time since the war in Ukraine began. The rocket, named Ariane 6, symbolizes a renewed hope that Europe will gain ground in the new space race. But the challenges ahead are plenty. Can Europe catch up?

Moldova's Socialists, the ex-Soviet state's largest opposition party, put forward a dismissed prosecutor general as a "unified opposition" candidate on Monday (8 July) to challenge pro-European incumbent Maia Sandu in an October presidential election.

Russia blasted the main children's hospital in Kyiv with a missile in broad daylight on Monday (8 July) and rained missiles down on other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of air strikes for months.

After Hungary's solo diplomatic outreach to Russia and China, EU member states this week are expected to seek more clarity about its results, with some keen to explore options on how to reign in what they see as Budapest's 'destructive behaviour'.

Despite the German government's “relief” at the defeat of the far-right in the French parliamentary elections, its ruling coalition fears that Franco-German cooperation may now suffer from a possible power vacuum in Paris, prompting some to look to Poland instead.

"We should seek to maintain and strengthen cooperation with as many countries and market players around the world as possible," Hungary’s Ambassador to the EU, Bálint Ódor, told Euractiv in an interview.

“¡No pasarán!” or "They shall not pass" is an iconic slogan used in the context of leftist forces fighting fascism. During the Spanish Civil War, Dolores Ibárruri Gómez ("Pasionaria"), a member of the Communist Party of Spain, pronounced her famous "No pasarán" speech on 18 July 1936.

A new far-right group, the Patriots for Europe, was formed in the European Parliament on Monday (8 July) after swallowing their predecessor, Identity and Democracy (ID), and unifying enough lawmakers on the right and far-right side to become the third-largest group.

Last month was the hottest June on record, the EU's climate change monitoring service said on Monday (8 July), continuing a streak of exceptional temperatures that some scientists said puts 2024 on track to be the world's hottest recorded year.

As the dust settles around EU election results and Brussels looks towards the EU's incoming leaders, one last policy hurdle sits on the desks of energy officials: a definition of low-carbon hydrogen.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Italy's Matteo Salvini being convinced that the new EU alliance with Orban will overtake Meloni’s ECR, , the Spanish right allegedly being nervous about Orban's new group, and so much more.

Socialist and leftist politicians from across Europe expressed their satisfaction about the defeat of far-right Rassemblement national (RN) in the second round of the French elections on Sunday, with some pointing out the unity of leftist forces.

Experts and politicians from across the spectrum have criticised the budget agreement reached by Germany's coalition parties, bemoaning the small increase in defence spending as insufficient to counter the threat from Russia.

The Philippines and Japan have signed a reciprocal access agreement (RAA) allowing them to deploy their forces on each other's soil, a milestone in their security relations amid rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, an official said on Monday (8 July).

As Bulgaria heads for its seventh general election in nearly four years, DPS co-leader Delyan Peevski, sanctioned by the US and the UK for corruption, poses several obstacles in negotiations to form a regular government in Sofia.