The EU Commission president told leaders there is now a higher probability for no deal than a deal - although she did not want to give a percentage. Negotiations continue at least until Sunday.

After hours of negotiations, EU leaders agreed to increase the bloc's emission-reduction target to 55 percent by 2030. But Poland and Hungary made sure that member states give the final green light to future climate legislation by unanimity.

There were three incidents of equipment failure at Belarus' new atomic power station since it began making electricity in November, Lithuania has warned.

Hungary and Poland have already announced on Thursday they will take the EU's new rule of law budgetary conditionality mechanism to the bloc's top court.

Jorge Domecq spent five years as the chief executive of the European Defence Agency before taking up a job as "Head of Public Affairs" at Airbus. He failed to properly notify the agency of his new job, breaching staff regulations.

The EU did not solve the financial crisis, nor fix terrorism or radicalisation. Unlike most other political groups, the ECR doesn't believe these are temporary difficulties, but rather the consequences of the path this Union has taken in recent decades.