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The bloc hopes to survive by boosting renewables and essentially pricing its own citizens out of the market

Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires in Portugal, Spain and southwestern France, in the grip of a heatwave that shows no sign of easing.

EU finance ministers on Tuesday gave Croatia the final green light to adopt the euro single currency on January 1, 2023.

Brussels is looking forward to receiving Kiev’s answers to the union membership questionnaire, the EU Commission head says

Following talks, Zelensky says he feels US-Ukraine relations are ‘special’

Paris has slammed the UK’s decision to maintain quarantine measures for travelers from France, arguing that it is “discriminatory,” as double-jabbed citizens across the European Union (EU) are able to forgo the requirement.

But the pipeline is almost completed and has had the staunch support of German Chancellor Angela Merkel throughout the process.

EU’s digital health certificate comes as airlines hope for summer travel recovery

The European Parliament is expected to ratify the post-Brexit EU-UK trade deal - a key move to ensure that tariff- and quota-free trade continues.

"If trade restrictions and other supply-side bottlenecks prevent universal coverage, then this would indeed make us all less safe," one expert said.

“We think it is responsible at this point to go the extra mile,” EU and UK leaders said.

Boris Johnson says there is a "strong possibility" the UK will fail to strike a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.

Spain has been gripped violence, with anti-lockdown protesters clashing with police in multiple cities, including Madrid and Barcelona, over the state and regional governments’ move to toughen Covid-19 restrictions.

Britain’s upper house of Parliament delivered a resounding condemnation of the government’s contentious new Brexit legislation on Tuesday, as a standoff continued between the U.K. and the European Union over future trade relations.

The EU says it could impose sanctions on Turkey over "provocations and pressures" in a row with Greece over energy resources and maritime borders.

Armenia says one of its fighter jets was shot down by a Turkey jet, in a major escalation of a conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday promised to help mediate in the Belarusian political crisis during a meeting with opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

Britain headed into a fresh round of Brexit trade talks on Tuesday acknowledging it could break international law but only in a "limited way" after reports it may undercut its divorce treaty with the European Union.

Ministers are planning new legislation that could override a key part of last year's EU withdrawal agreement.

A post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU "seems unlikely" at this stage, the bloc's negotiator has said.