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European Union grants candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova

The decision is a symbolic victory for Kyiv and the first step in what could be a long accession process.

Axios

Taoiseach: Granting EU candidate status to Ukraine sends message of solidarity

Micheal Martin also accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of ‘weaponising’ food amid ongoing blockades of Ukrainian grain.

The Independent UK

EU Debates Ukraine Candidacy as Russia Makes Life 'Hell' in East

EU leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday to discuss calls to formally grant war-torn Ukraine "candidate status" to join the bloc, as Russian forces slowly advance in the eastern Donbas region despite fierce resistance from Kyiv's military. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had been conducting a "telephone marathon" on…

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Taoiseach Micheal Martin to consider invite to visit Ukraine

The Ukrainian president also thanked the Taoiseach for Ireland’s support to Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Brickbat: Gassed Up and Ready to Go

The European Parliament has voted to ban cars with internal combustion engines by 2035. The plan must still be approved by the European Council, which is expected to OK the law. A center-right coalition in the parliament had proposed a 90 percent ban, which would allow 10 percent of cars…

Reason

Leading EU official calls bloc's expansion a “top priority”

European Council President Charles Michel is visiting North Macedonia

The Independent UK

EU unity must not be compromised for Ukraine candidate status, French official says

A decision to give Ukraine candidate status to the European Union has to be done without weakening the bloc and to ensure Kyiv is not left in limbo for years, a French presidential official said on Friday.

Reuters

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Taoiseach Micheal Martin says it's an 'honour' for Ireland to welcome over 34,000 Ukrainian refugees

He also said that Ireland is backing Ukraine’s application to join the EU

Irish Mirror

Ukraine news – live: Russia admits sending conscripts to Kyiv despite Putin’s denials

Officers who ‘committed these violations’ have been punished

The Independent UK

EU blames Russia for food crisis, Russian UN envoy walks out

European Council President Charles Michel is accusing Russia of using food supplies as “a stealth missile against developing countries” and blaming the Kremlin for the looming global food crisis

The Independent UK

Ukraine latest updates: 600 Ukrainians held captive in Kherson

Ukraine news from June 7: Presidential aide says prisoners held in ‘inhumane conditions’ and are victims of torture.

Al Jazeera

Russia's U.N. envoy storms out of Ukraine meeting over European statement

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia stormed out of a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday as European Council President Charles Michel addressed the 15-member body and accused Moscow of fueling a global food crisis with its invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

EU Leaders Ban Most Russian Oil, as Moscow Advances in Donbas

European Union leaders have agreed to ban more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports, tightening economic screws on the country even as Moscow's forces press their offensive in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. The compromise deal reached late Monday, meant to punish Russia for its invasion three months ago, cuts "a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia takes most of Sievierodonetsk city in eastern Ukraine

Ukraine said on Tuesday that Russia had taken control of most of the eastern industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, a bombed-out wasteland whose capture Moscow has made the principal objective of its invasion.

Reuters

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The Guardian - UK

Attack on chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk criticised by Zelensky – as it happened

Ukraine president calls bombing of major chemical plant ‘madness’; Gazprom halts gas flows to companies in three western European countries

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 97 of the invasion

Airstrike hits chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk; African Union warns that Moscow blockade of Ukrainian ports risks ‘catastrophic’ food shortages

Reuters

EU summit to agree sanctions should include Russian oil embargo with pipeline exemption - draft

European Union leaders are due to agree at a summit later in the day that the sanctions package under preparation should include an embargo on Russian oil imports as punishemnt for Moscow invading Ukraine, but exempt pipeline crude deliveries.

The Conversation

Debate: What ‘European political community’ do we need now?

The war that is taking place in Ukraine is redrawing the geopolitical map across the continent and shaking up Europeans’ presuppositions. It is reshaping their relationship to security, to their neighbours and challenges the European Union to redefine the foundations of the European construction.

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Orban says EU summit should not discuss Russian oil embargo

Hungary unable to agree to the proposed EU sanctions until all outstanding issues resolved, PM says in a letter.

Reuters

Hungary's Orban says EU summit should not discuss oil sanctions next week

The EU's proposed new sanctions including an oil embargo against Russia should not be discussed at next week's summit of EU leaders, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote to the President of the European Council in a letter.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Armenia, Azerbaijan Leaders Discuss 'Peace Treaty' over Nagorno-Karabakh

The leaders of arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed in a Brussels meeting Sunday to "advance discussions" on a peace treaty over a troubled region that saw a war break out in 2020, the European Council's president said. The Nagorno-Karabakh region, situated in Muslim-majority Azerbaijan with mostly Christian Armenian residents, is…

Reuters

Azeri and Armenian leaders meet on Nagorno-Karabakh

The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia met on Sunday in Brussels to discuss a peace plan for Nagorno-Karabakh that has stoked a wave of protests in Yerevan over opposition claims that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is being too soft.

Reuters

Serb leader tells EU Bosnia cannot join sanctions against Russia

Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik told European Council President Charles Michel on Friday that Bosnia needs to maintain neutrality and not join EU sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

EU's Michel says will support Serbia's speedier accession to EU

European Council President Charles Michel said on Thursday the European Union would support a speedier accession of Serbia into the wealthy bloc and help the Balkan country dependent on Russian gas and oil to diversify its energy supplies.

Reuters

Germany's Scholz wants Western Balkans in EU

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he will travel to the Western Balkans before a meeting of the European Council takes place next month, bearing the message that the region belongs in the European Union.

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