Israeli expansion blocks two-state solution, EU says

With the CSDDD, there is an opportunity to harness the power of investment for truly sustainable activities. But to do this, the CSDDD must not allow the "BlackRock exemption" and instead cover institutional investors and asset managers.

Russia is increasingly seen as an adversary or rival, a view held by some 64 percent of respondents, an increase from about a third of respondents when the same question was posed in a 2021 poll.

Cleaners demonstrated in front of the European Parliament. They are fed up with night shifts, not feeling safe at work, not getting enough sleep and the difficulty of juggling their working hours with their personal lives.

Finalising the EU-Mercosur agreement is a priority for the EU and the upcoming Spanish EU council presidency, ahead of the summit with Latin America and the Caribbean countries to be held in Brussels on 17 and 18 July.

EU home affairs ministers are gathering in Luxembourg to thrash out an agreement on core asylum and migration reforms. But expectations of an agreement, following their meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday remained mixed.

The commission also wants to address burnout at work, as around half of European workers consider stress to be common in their workplace and it contributes to around half of all lost working days.