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EU grants Ukraine candidate status after Macron, Sholz and Dragi visit Kyiv, Ukraine. The EU bloc announced EU candidate status earlier today. This is despite…

Euronews says TENS OF THOUSANDS of demonstrators marched in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Monday to demand EU membership for the former Soviet republic in the Caucasus.

The Guardian says Boris Johnson is engaging in “Putinesque” tactics by using the Northern Ireland protocol bill to cause a populist row with Brussels when the EU is willing to compromise, Peter Hain, a former Northern Ireland secretary, said on Sunday.

Euronews says Ukraine should be given candidate status for European Union membership, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Mario Draghi affirmed on Thursday during a visit to Kyiv.

Ukraine close to EU candidate status could be granted as early as next month, with a roadmap to full membership but with conditions, to appease…

Euronews says the European Union’s Anti-Fraud office recommended this year that more than €500 million of EU funds be recovered.

Today in the EU – A round-up of the latest updates from the attack in Berlin. How the protests against Turkey have intensified in Cyprus…

Latest from Berlin today where a man driving a car ploughed into pedestrians killing 1 and injuring 9 in chaos attack. At least one person…

Italy seizes over four tons of cocaine with a street value of €200 million in Trieste. Italian authorities say they have confiscated 4.3 tons of…

The Guardian says the European Union has agreed to an embargo on most Russian oil imports after late-night talks at a summit in Brussels.

The Independent says Russian president Vladimir Putin has been given just three years to live by doctors, it’s claimed.

The Guardian says the sharp polarisation between mainly western liberal democracies and the rest of the world in perceptions of Russia has been laid bare in an annual global poll of attitudes towards democracy.

Sky News says Ministers have been warned of potential power cuts to as many as six million households this winter, according to reports.

Euronews says the yachts and lavish houses of Russian oligarchs that have been seized under EU sanctions could be confiscated to finance Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction.

Several southern French towns sizzled in record high temperatures for May on Wednesday, while the month as a whole is on track to be the…

The Guardian says the European Commission has raised the spectre of an economically damaging trade war with the UK, pledging to respond with “all measures at its disposal” if Liz Truss presses ahead with a plan to rewrite the Northern Ireland protocol.

The Independent says Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has poured cold water on Sweden and Finland’s “historic” announcements that they will to apply to join Nato.

France24 says Morocco and Spain have reopened the land borders, two years after they were shut due to Covid restrictions and a major diplomatic row.

The Independent says Sweden is set to follow Finland in applying to join Nato after the country’s ruling Social Democrats party announced on Sunday it was dropping its long-standing opposition to membership of the bloc.

The Metro says Russia’s ambassador to the EU has said there will be a ‘military and technical’ response to Finland joining NATO.

From next week facemasks will no longer be mandatory in airports and on flights in Europe.

Euronews says leaders from the Group of Seven developed democracies pledged Sunday to phase out or ban the import of Russian oil.

Brussels proposes to stop Russian oil imports by the end of the year, but can Germany stick to the deadline? Ursula von der Leyen, the president…

The Metro says the EU has unveiled proposals for new sanctions on Russia including a ban on oil imports by the end of this year.

Euronews says the EU’s institutions are no longer fit for purpose and need reforming if the bloc is to address the multiple crises it currently faces, according to Italy’s prime minister.