Kosovo has been dangled a potential breakthrough on visa-free travel, but what does the EU really want in return?

Under the agreement reached over weeks of talks, the EU will not go ahead with increasing retaliatory tariffs, scheduled for next month.

The European Commission unveiled new rules to green economic activities at sea, which employ more than four million people in the bloc. These include tightening ship-recycling rules and new targets to restore damaged marine ecosystems.

As European foreign ministers meet to talk about Israel and Palestine, Palestinians from both sides of the Green Line will be looking to the EU, Israel's main trade partner, to take the moral, legal and political steps required.

EU speaks out against Israeli rocket attacks against media building in Gaza Strip. Refrains from commenting on calls to launch an investigation and says first priority is to stop violence.

Parallels with the Soviet era are increasingly evident in Poland - where the ruling coalition hounds judges and captures courts.