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Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona proposes that the Court of Justice should declare that Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU

The centre-right Ciudadanos and the Popular Party (PP) are in talks to form a new government in Spain's Andalusia region, with support from the far-right party Vox. For the first time since the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, Vox secured seats for the far-right in a Spanish parliament on Sunday. The secretary general of Ciudadanos, Jose Manuel Villegas, said on Monday a deal with Vox was a possibility.

Hundreds of right-wing extremists are at large in Germany, despite arrest warrants against them, according to a response to a parliamentary request from leftwing MP Ulla Jelpke. In total, 467 sought-after right-wing extremists not been found by police by the end of March, the Neue Osnabruecker newspaper reported. The number of neo-Nazis wanted by police nearly doubled in the past four years, according to the response.

Top managers from German car makers Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW are up for talks with US government officials in the White House in Washington on Tuesday - prompting questions in Europe over the purpose of the meeting, as only the European Commission has the authority to negotiate trade and customs with other countries under EU treaties. President Donald Trump has long accused German automakers of an unfair trade imbalance.

The UK will be "indefinitely committed" to the Irish backstop, UK attorney general Geoffrey Cox told MPs on Monday. Cox, who gives legal advice to the government on the Brexit deal, said there would be no unilateral right for the UK to pull out of the backstop, which is designed to prevent a new Irish border if no trade deal is reached with the EU after Brexit.

The political crisis in France sparked by the 'yellow vest' movement is set to continue after representatives of the protesters pulled out of a meeting with prime minister Edouard Philippe, scheduled for Tuesday. Over the weekend Paris was hit by the worst riots since 1968. A Harris Interactive poll found 72 percent of French people support the yellow vests' tax protests but 85 percent are against the violence.

Nato foreign ministers arrive in Brussels on Tuesday for a two-day meeting likely to focus on security around the Black Sea, after Russia fired on Ukrainian vessels last week in the Azov Sea and detained several Ukrainian naval personnel. Moscow has blamed Ukraine for what it called a "provocation". Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko wants Nato to send warships to the Azov Sea, rising risks of a naval confrontation with Russia.

Cambodia’s parliament is reviewing a five-year ban on more than 100 members of the main opposition party, which could allow them to return to politics, following threats by the European Union to deny duty-free trading access to the Southeast Asian...

Germany will not withdraw its political support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with Russia, its foreign minister said on Monday (3 December), as some lawmakers suggested curtailing the project to punish Moscow for its seizure of Ukrainian ships and their crew.

The Czech attitude towards the eurozone is only a small part of a bigger problem called “searching for the right approach to the EU”, says Czech MEP Luděk Niedermayer (EPP).

The last time a car CO2 regulation was negotiated in 2013, the agreement was blocked at the last moment by Germany, resulting in a year of delay and renegotiation. This year, it looks like history could be about to repeat itself, writes Greg Archer.

Kosovo will keep its 100% tariffs on Serbian goods until Belgrade recognizes Pristina, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said on Monday (4 December), defying calls by the European Union and United States for the tariffs to be abolished.

A proposal to limit cross-border electricity flows is one of the last sticking points in the EU’s proposed power market reform, as Berlin pursues a 75% limit on interconnector capacity made available for trading, lawmakers have said.

During its third Annual Summit, the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) unveiled its plans to increase transparency over online digital advertising and build greater consumer trust through its well-recognised Online Behavioural Advertisement Icon and online Consumer Choice Platform, visited each year by tens of millions of internet users.

France and Germany sought on Monday (3 December) to salvage a proposed EU tax on big digital firms by narrowing the focus to cover only companies' online advertising revenue, a European source said.

The EU High Representative Federica Mogherini’s response to the series of Iranian terror plots on European soil has been a total silence, writes Jaromír Štětina.

Azerbaijan, a supporter of multilateralism and international cooperation, will chair the Non-Aligned Movement in 2019-2022, with international peace and security as the top priority issues, a senior official from the country told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

The forthcoming Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) directive, which is being finalised in negotiations over the next two weeks, aims to tackle the worst behaviours of the big food buyers, writes Thomas Wills.

The Greek pharmaceutical industry has reached its limits due to a number of “unreasonable” burdens imposed by the government during the crisis, Greek pharma chief Olympios Papadimitriou told EURACTIV.com in an interview. The sustainability of pharma companies is at stake, threatening 86,000 jobs, he said.

EU finance ministers struggled to agree reforms to better fight against a financial crisis early Tuesday (4 December), with negotiators still at the table after more than 12 hours of talks.