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In today’s news from The Capitals:
BERLIN
After several EU countries announced a boycott of the upcoming informal council meeting in Hungary, Germany seems ready to follow suit as not a single minister will travel to Budapest to attend the meeting. Read more.
Reason for concern or premature obituary? Analysts divided on German economy. As the German economy navigates its second year of near-recession and fears about permanent deindustrialisation persist, bank analysts are split on whether gloomy insolvency numbers should be cause for further concern. Read more.
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PARIS
French left at loggerheads over the choice of new prime minister. The left-wing parties of the New Popular Front (NFP), whose ad-hoc coalition managed to beat the far-right Rassemblement national (RN) in the snap legislative elections, are now at loggerheads over the name of a new prime minister. Read more.
EUROPE’S SOUTH
MADRID
New Spanish far-right party negotiating with ‘at least three groups’ in European Parliament. Alvise Pérez leader of the new Spanish far-right party Se Acabó la Fiesta (SALF/The Party is Over) said on Tuesday, that his party is negotiating with at least three groups in the European Parliament while criticising Ursula von der Leyen’s “Soviet-like” European Union. Read more.
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LISBON
EU’s Metsola hints at good cooperation with future European Council boss Costa. European Council President-elect António Costa is a “strong and effective politician” who will “respect” the European Parliament when he takes office, newly re-elected European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said after meeting him on Tuesday. Read more.
EASTERN EUROPE
PRAGUE
Czech MEP says far-right isolation effective as Patriots fail to secure VP spots. Isolating far-right parties works, Czech MEP Ondřej Kolář (EPP) told Euractiv Czechia after the newly formed Patriots for Europe group failed to win any vice-presidential seats in the European Parliament on Tuesday. Read more.
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WARSAW
Poland’s Kopacz re-elected EU Parliament VP, scores second-highest. Polish MEP and ex-prime minister Ewa Kopacz of the ruling Civic Coalition (KO, EPP) was re-elected as one of the 14 vice presidents of the European Parliament, achieving the second-highest result among them. Read more.
NEWS FROM THE BALKANS
SOFIA
Heatwave-stricken Bulgaria banking on EU help to fight fires. Bulgaria expects help from EU countries to tackle the fires caused by the heatwave that has swept the country over the past two weeks, as large fires are reported almost hourly nationwide. Read more.
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BUCHAREST
Romania sees initial contract to buy F-35 fighter jets, defence ministry says. Romania expects to sign a government-to-government agreement with the United States to purchase latest-generation F-35 fighter jets as early as this fall, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. Read more.
AGENDA:
- EU: Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas participates in International Trans-Mediterranean Migration Forum, Tripoli, Libya;
- Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski opens EU Agri-Food Chain Observatory inaugural meeting;
- Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson delivers keynote speech at Energy Solutions’ Networking lunch event “The future of European energy policy: Challenges and opportunities to address during the new legislative mandate”;
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[Edited by Sarantis Michalopoulos, Daniel Eck, Alice Taylor, Sofia Mandilara]
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