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China's decision to suspend its restrictions on exports of rare earths for one year, as part of deal struck with the US, also applies to the EU, the bloc's trade chief has said.

An investigation into AgeVerif, an age-verification company in France, found problems with the system's effectiveness, security, and bias.

As the European Parliament grinds away on how to deport people to have their asylum cases heard outside Europe, its lead MEP on the file has suggested that controversial process could prevent sprawling ghetto like camps once seen on the Greek islands.

"Only three days before I was due to travel, I was informed that I would be blocked by Israeli authorities and that I was also subject to a five-year travel ban. The reasons for the ban were not specific, instead a whole list of possible reasons was cited, from the deeply-offensive and wholly untrue charge of ‘Holocaust denial’ to the bizarre charge of calling for ICC arrest warrants to be upheld." Today's EUobserver opinion piece, by Irish MEP Lynn Boylan https://lnkd.in/dXq9TwYX

The number of people who choose to vote far-right remains unchanged (with 48 seats vs 46), and now they have more flavours of far-right to choose from.

This treatment by Israeli authorities is an insult to the European Parliament and its elected representatives and is certainly not the behaviour of a democracy, writes MEP Lynn Boylan, chair of the delegation for relations with Palestine.

Saturday is the one-year anniversary of Serbia's deadly train station collapse — starting waves of student protests against president Aleksandar Vučić that still reverberate. "It is no longer the country it was before 1 November last year", according to one professor of southeastern European history.

Cyprus will assume the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 January 2026. Nicosia plans to prioritise migration, relations with southern neighbours, and water resilience during its time at the helm of the bloc.

Sudan's government lashed out at the EU response to the massacre by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur.

Living in Louisiana's so-called 'Cancer Alley' means that I have a message for the European Parliament as it continues to debate the EU’s flagship corporate accountability law: do not give in to the fossil-fuel industry.