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Just under eight months after the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu, President Erdoğan's main political rival, Turkish prosecutors have charged him with offences that could carry a penalty of up to 2,430 years in prison. The charges include corruption and leading a criminal organisation. The arrest of the CHP politician last spring triggered mass protests across the country.

This is the second time that the ruling Social Democrats have lost ground in an election since the 2022 legislative elections

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Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, Sikorski said the sabotage amounted to “an act of state terrorism”

The EU measures violate the spirit of the EEA agreement, according to Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir

The ecommerce giant had appealed the Commission's 2023 decision to designate its marketplace under the Digital Services Act's rules for very large platforms

In today's edition: Tobacco, wastewater and incontinence

Amazon EU v Commission
Approximation of laws
DSA: Amazon’s action against the Commission's decision designating the platform Amazon Store as a 'very large online platform' is dismissed

PAN Europe v Commission
Agriculture
Plant protection products: the temporary extension of the approval of active substances may not be applied on an automatic or systematic basis

Days after its first wartime evacuation, Romania scrambled German and Romanian jets after a drone briefly crossed eight kilometres into its airspace during Russian strikes

Plus FCAS, SAFE, EU Space Act, and the sovereign cloud

In today's edition: CAP budget, drones, low alcohol

In today's edition: Cloud sovereignty, consumer digital fairness, DMA probes

In today's edition: Electricity grid, melamine ban, Chinese solar, wastewater fight