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Germany’s government coalition reached a political agreement on its budget on Friday (5 July), working around a self-imposed borrowing limit with “quite a few tricks”.

The influential Brussels think-tank, Bruegel, has sent a ‘memo’ to Commission President-designate, Ursula von der Leyen, warning her of over-burdening consumers during her likely second term.

On Sunday evening, after the second round of legislative elections, France will have a new National Assembly. If the Rassemblement national and its right-wing allies win an absolute majority - which is unlikely but not impossible - it will be up to the probable new prime minister, Jordan Bardella, to propose a new minister of agriculture.

The Commission might let general purpose AI providers draft their own codes of practice, whereas it also accused Meta of anticompetitive behaviour under the DMA.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán travelled to Moscow on Thursday (4 July) to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, only a few days after his visit to Kyiv, on a trip that earned him stern rebukes from EU officials and diplomats.

Germany will adopt its Medical Research Act, Thursday (4 July), the new law will allow pharma companies to negotiate the price of patent-protected medicines in private.

Formerly sedate attempts at electricity market integration in South-Eastern Europe have been given a new dynamism amid a concrete EU perspective – and a looming punitive CO2 duty.

The EU has set ambitious goals for securing its supply of critical raw materials, which are key to the digital and green transitions. Today we talk to Chad Blewitt, managing director of the Jadar Project, a highly-anticipated and highly-delayed lithium mining site in Serbia. Jadar is operated by Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest mining company.

NATO is set to provide a platform to help its members shape national production strategies, in a new attempt to boost production, Euractiv has learnt.

Hundreds of gigawatts of wind energy projects are waiting for permits to connect to Europe's power grid, a backlog that threatens to slow the shift to green energy, industry association WindEurope said on Friday (5 July).

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (9 July) will make his first visit to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, walking a fine line between maintaining a longstanding Moscow alliance while courting closer Western security ties.

The European Union’s weather satellite agency should review its decision to use US launchers over the European option Ariane-6, MEP Christophe Grudler wrote in a letter sent to the organisation’s board on Thursday (4 July), seen by Euractiv.

The EU should control agricultural prices and abandon free trade agreements (FTA) policy, included the long-stalled trade deal with Mercosur, a representative of the farming organisation European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), told Euractiv in an interview. 

Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage claimed to have kickstarted a "revolt against the establishment", as his hard-right party made significant gains in UK election results announced early Friday (5 July).

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Poland's conservative PiS MEPs picking Meloni over Orbán, the EU Left admitting Italy's M5S on a probationary basis2, and so much more.

France captain Kylian Mbappé said gains by the far-right National Rally party in last weekend’s first round of French parliamentary elections were catastrophic and on Thursday urged French voters to come out against them.

A new poll broadcast on Thursday evening showed that an all-time high abstention rate in the recent EU elections was not a coincidence, as Greek citizens feel increasingly disappointed or indifferent about the Mediterranean country’s political system.

China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin pressed their case on Thursday (4 July) for closer security, political and economic cooperation between countries of the vast Eurasian region as a counterweight to Western alliances.

The defence and space industry is set to voice concerns about an EU-wide cloud cybersecurity certification scheme (EUCS) in a position paper to be published, calling for data localisation and contractual assurances.

Romania's governing coalition concluded discussions on the electoral calendar for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday, according to a press release from the Social Democrats and Liberals.