EU countries have agreed to allow a joint naval mission in the Indian Ocean to begin boarding ships suspected of belonging to russia's shadow fleet, the bloc's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on July 22.

hungary has refused to approve the screening results for negotiation clusters 2 and 3 for Ukraine and Moldova during a meeting of the Council of the EU's Working Party on Enlargement (COELA) on 22 July; the next attempt is scheduled for 1 September.

Cultural events, funded by European taxpayers’ money, should safeguard democratic values, foster open dialogue, diversity and freedom of expression,” Thomas Regnier, a spokesman for the European Commission, said in a statement announcing the decision. He said those values were “not respected in today’s Russia.”

However, Greece wants the EU to soften already agreed restrictions on Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies and has become the main obstacle to adopting the new package.

From January 1, the EU will ban imports ​of Russian LNG and ban EU companies from providing services to Russian LNG terminals that are majority owned by a Russian entity.

US President Donald Trump announced steep tariffs on generic medicines from 2028, despite the products being exempt under the EU’s trade deal with Washington.

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