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Pressure to impose sanctions on Russia by EU states should not push Serbia to drop its EU aspirations, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Sunday. Sixteen of the EU’s 27 members directly or indirectly spoke of the necessity for Serbia...

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has not given up plans to take the Serb half of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serb Republic, out of the country but is just waiting for the right moment, he said on Sunday, warning that he would...

US President Joe Biden told allies “We have to stay together" against Russia on Sunday as G7 leaders gathered for a summit dominated by war in Ukraine and its impact on food and energy supplies and the global economy.

The US government committed $14 million for an engineering and design study that would provide the basis for deploying small modular reactors (SMR) for a new nuclear plant in Romania.

The Czech Republic has no plans to adopt the euro anytime soon, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said amid rising concerns from Czech economists. As Croatia was recently given the Commission’s go-ahead to adopt the euro in 2023, the Czech Republic has...

The removal of the Polish flag from a memorial to Polish soldiers murdered by Soviet forces in Katyn in 1940 on Friday (24 June) was met with criticism in Poland, with some saying it is part of Russia’s ongoing anti-Poland...

While in Portugal for a youth conference, UN Secretary-General António Guterres apologised on Sunday for the lack of attention older generations and policy-makers give to the oceans, stressing that it is still a slow process to reverse the problem.

The government on Saturday (25 June) approved a new anti-crisis package worth €9.1 billion aimed at reducing the impact of inflation on the most vulnerable and targeting the windfall profits made by big energy companies this year due to the soaring price of gas on global markets.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has come under fire, including by members of his own government, for defending the actions of Moroccan authorities in response to the attempted border breach by migrants at the Spanish enclave Melilla. Of the 2,000...

Members of President Emmanuel Macron’s party have announced that they will push to amend the French Constitution to make abortion a constitutional right, following the US Supreme Court’s controversial decision. The US Supreme Court on Friday (24 June) overturned its...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, whose government was ousted in a no-confidence vote last week, will again be a candidate for the prime minister post, Petkov stated in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday. Petkov is the...

Slovakia is unable to implement the national recovery and resilience plan as it was conceived a year ago due to new conditions, Livia Vašáková, director of the recovery plan department at the government office, admitted to EURACTIV Slovakia. One of...

Proving one’s identity is set to become possible next year through a digital identification app available for smartphones and tablets that aims to prevent gender-based discrimination and promote work-based immigration. The government has justified its legislative proposal that could see...

The Dutch government will reveal plans this week to develop two new nuclear power stations, in what will be “a good addition to all sustainable techniques” in the Netherlands, Climate and Energy Minister Rob Jetten has said.

In Europe, conservative Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presents himself as a pro-European modernist but in Greece, he is creating a “regime” aiming to control the media and justice, former prime minister and main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras told EURACTIV Network in...

Russian missiles struck an apartment block and close to a kindergarten in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, in strikes US President Joe Biden condemned as "barbarism" as world leaders gathered in Europe to discuss further sanctions against Moscow.

Americas

The US Navy awarded Raytheon $78.7 million to exercise options for additional fiscal 2022 guided missile assemblies in support of the fiscal 2021-2023 Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM) Block 2 full rate production requirements. The Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile is a medium-range, surface-to-air missile designed and manufactured by Raytheon Missile Systems. Work will take place in Arizona, Australia, California, Canada, New Hampshire, Norway, Germany, New York, Turkey and Denmark. Estimated completion will be by March 2025.

Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Javelin Joint Venture won a $33.4 million contract modification for the low-rate initial production of lightweight command launch units in support of the Javelin Weapon System. Work will take place in Arizona. Estimated completion date is June 30 2025. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.

Middle East & Africa

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has successfully doubled the Venµs satellite’s service life. In addition, IAI changed the Venµs satellite’s altitude in space, which initially decreased from its initial mission of 720km above Earth to 410km. Instead of returning the satellite to Earth and completing its mission, IAI’s engineers returned Venµs to higher altitude to continue carrying out its mission at 560km. This altitude increase allows for an addition of a new and unplanned phase in the satellite’s life.

Europe

Spain has ordered another 20 Eurofighter jets to bring its fleet to 90 aircraft. The Halcón contract will see Spain getting 16 single-seat aircraft and 4 twin-seat fighters. These jets will be equipped with e-scan radars and are intended to replace Spain’s Hornets. 48 new EJ200 engines will be bought as well. Delivery is expected to begin in 2026.

Asia-Pacific

The Philippine Air Force (PAF) and the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) concluded their second Bilateral Training on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HADR) and Search and Rescue (SAR) Execution exercise on June 24. In the exercise, both sides practice airdrop and ground load/offload utilizing PAF and JASDF C-130 aircraft. JASDF Chief of Staff, Gen. Izutsu Shunji, also joined a press conference held by PAF chief Lt. Gen. Connor Anthony Canlas on June 23.

The Pentagon has confirmed that a US Navy P-8A maritime patrol aircraft has flown over the Taiwan Strait on June 24. “A US Navy P-8A Poseidon transited the Taiwan Strait in international airspace on June 24. The United States will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows including within the Taiwan Strait. By operating within the Taiwan Strait in accordance with international law, the United States upholds the navigational rights and freedoms of all nations. The aircraft’s transit of the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” according to a statement from the Indo-Pacific Command.

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To tackle the growing influence of China and its belt and road initiative, Western leaders launched a Western counter-initiative worth $600 billion to lessen the Chinese economic grip on low- and middle-income countries.

France will have to spend "at least" €2.3 billion more per year to adapt infrastructures to climate change, a recent report published by the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE) think tank reads.

Emissions from energy production and consumption must reach net-zero by 2050 if Europe is to meet its objective of reaching "climate neutrality" by mid-century. In this special report, EURACTIV examines the implications for the electricity sector and the energy system as a whole.