Also in this newsletter: North Macedonia makes tentative progress on EU accession journey
Also in this newsletter: Europe battles wildfires and heat
Also in this newsletter: Brussels raps Hungary’s knuckles over retail taxes
Partial election results indicate Edi Rama’s Socialist party will maintain parliamentary majority after campaigning to join EU
Also in this newsletter: Are the EU’s 2040 climate targets going soft?
Also in this newsletter: Ireland’s pharma industry braces itself for Donald Trump’s tariffs
Secretary-general Mark Rutte urges European leaders to put aside differences with Ankara to boost security co-operation
Kristrún Frostadóttir favours restarting talks for economic reasons and not in reaction to US president’s Arctic sabre-rattling
Also in this newsletter: How Mercosur countries will get better treatment under EU’s deforestation rules
Developments beyond as well as inside Europe threaten one of the bloc’s cornerstone projects
Also in this newsletter: why two rival business summits spell trouble for the German government’s unity
Also in this newsletter: why the wealthy should bear the burden of tackling climate change
Also in this newsletter: Russian migrant-smuggling ring busted
The west must tackle Russia’s interference with democracy in both countries
President Maia Sandu had hoped for stronger support for her policy of closer integration with Europe
Maia Sandu lashes out at ‘unprecedented’ interference by ‘foreign forces’ as results come in
Also in this newsletter: bloc and UK plan the first joint summit post Brexit
Also in this newsletter: Serbia inks a deal to buy French fighter jets
Symbolic step comes a decade after Euromaidan protests sought to put country firmly on pro-western path
European Commission recommends start of accession negotiations this month but Hungary could cause delays
Albin Kurti says western capitals should give Belgrade a deadline to adopt sanctions against Russia
Tbilisi can still reverse course on controversial ‘foreign agents’ bill
The heads of Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs, North Macedonia and Georgia oppose the steps needed to join the club
Ruling Georgian Dream party presses ahead with bill despite months of protests and warnings from Brussels
Tbilisi government is set to pass a law that could derail the country’s EU hopes
