Summary of the day
Four people drowned in the Channel overnight, French maritime police said.
Finnish lawmakers approved a bill that will allow border guards to turn away third-country migrants attempting to enter Finland from Russia.
Members of the Polish parliament rejected a bill that would have decriminalised the act of facilitating abortions.
Hungary’s far right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, met with Donald Trump in Florida yesterday. In a post this morning, the Hungarian leader wrote: “We continued the peace mission in Mar-a-Lago. President Donald Trump has proved during his presidency that he is a man of peace. He will do it again!”
The German foreign ministry said Hungary’s presidency of the Council of the EU, which began on July 1, has already caused damage.
Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders mocked Joe Biden’s gaffes.
The Kremlin said today that the whole world had paid attention to Joe Biden’s slips of the tongue at a Nato summit, but said it was for U.S. voters to determine the presidential candidates’ prospects.
The French Green leader, Marine Tondelier, said the risk of the far right rising to power in France has not disappeared after the snap election, and politics must urgently change to regain voters’ trust.
Polish MPs vote against bill decriminalising abortion assistance
Members of the Polish parliament rejected a bill today that would have decriminalised the act of facilitating abortions, AFP reported.
The draft law was rejected by 218 MPs against and 215 in favour.
The bill was the first of four draft texts to liberalise abortion access in Poland put forward by members of the ruling coalition.
