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In today's edition: Data transfers, AI Act, patents, GDPR, microchips

In today's edition: electricity prices, heat pumps, and another crisis for carmakers

Plus, the Omnibus path to faster permitting, the EDA's escape from audit, and EDIP's entirely expected money troubles

Xi says reached 'consensus' with Trump on trade

In today’s edition: Rob Jetten, the likely next Dutch prime minister, calls for Europe to ‘defeat Putin’, Ireland’s Leo Varadkar admits avoiding a clash with Viktor Orbán on LGBTQI rights, and EU ambassadors push to delay the bloc’s anti-deforestation law

In today's edition: EUDR, simplification, neonicotinoids, mirror clauses

A top diplomat has warned Europe against threatening Israel

Designed to help consumers, the European Parliament’s baggage proposal could end up weighing down both passengers and airlines.

Europe’s most serious headaches are neither issues of regulation nor diplomacy; they are both at once. An Economic Security Advisor would be able to pull security-sensitive issues out of the soup of Brussels policymaking and prepare them for European Council decisions

The Commission is pushing member states to take on new debt to boost defence spending, making credit ratings more relevant than ever

According to the country's general prosecutor, the new system fails to achieve its deterrent or rehabilitative goals

Finance ministers' love for electricity taxes is keeping prices high

The leader of the progressive-centrist D66 party told Euractiv the Netherlands must back Ukraine “no matter what”

The GreenLeft-Labour alliance also underperformed expectations, prompting its leader, Frans Timmermans, to announce his resignation

The Commission ‘is failing to recognise the strategic importance of the heating sector at a crucial time’, a lobbyist said

What will EU defence look like? It's a question of commitment, coordination, and cash. But right now it looks like confusingly similar acronyms flying around the Brussels Bubble

Erdoğan seeks progress on long-stalled issues: modernising the EU–Turkey customs union and advancing visa-free travel for Turkish citizens

Second package planned for 2026 with wider industrial and internal-market focus

Patients and pharma industry were left on edge as party leaders clashed on health expenditure

Polish generic and innovative medicines industries are warning new rules breach EU principles and could undermine competitiveness and medicine access