Summary of the day
The Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, submitted her resignation today. She has been nominated to serve as the EU’s next high representative for foreign affairs.
The UK’s new EU relations minister, Nick Thomas-Symonds, headed to Brussels to stress the Labour government’s commitment to “resetting the relationship” with the bloc.
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he aimed to have all the elements of a peace plan ready in November so that Kyiv could convene a second international summit. “I think that representatives of Russia should be at the second summit,” he said.
Salome Zourabichvili, the Georgian president, asked the country’s top court to annul the controversial ‘foreign influence’ law that has sparked mass protests.
Marcin Romanowski, a former Polish deputy justice minister, was detained after he lost parliamentary immunity as part of a probe into the misuse of public funds.
One of Germany’s main rail corridors is to be closed for months as part of a major overhaul of the ailing train network of Europe’s largest economy that is expected to last until the end of the decade.
Salome Zourabichvili, the Georgian president, has asked the country’s top court to annul the controversial ‘foreign influence’ law that has sparked mass protests, AFP reported.
The president had previously vetoed the legislation, but Georgia’s parliament voted in May to override the veto.
