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Jimmy Lai who founded the Apple Daily, is escorted by Correctional Services officers to get on a prison van before appearing in a court in Hong Kong, Dec. 12, 2020. China's Foreign Ministry has condemned a resolution passed by the European Parliament criticizing Hong Kong's shrinking rights to free speech and political participation and urged the city's government to release and drop all charges against activist publisher Jimmy Lai, a sign of continuing political tensions between the sides even as they seek to restore economic links. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

China condemns EU Parliament’s resolution on Hong Kong’s shrinking freedoms

By Kanis Leung - Associated Press

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction Director Alexis Goosdeel addresses the media on the EU Drug Markets Report at EU Commission headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. New harmful illicit drugs are inundating a flourishing market for traffickers amid violence and corruption hurting local communities across Europe, the EU's agency monitoring drugs and addiction said Friday, June 16, 2023, in a grim annual report. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Menace to society: Galore of illicit drugs available in the EU as powerful new substances emerge

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Large parts of the forests are missing in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, April 7, 2023. The European Union has been at the forefront of the fight against climate change and the protection of nature for years. But it now finds itself under pressure from within to pause new environmental efforts amid fears they will hurt the economy. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

EU nature restoration law narrowly survives attack by conservative lawmakers

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, March 23, 2023. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Thursday, June 15, 2023, he believed the European Union would finalize a controversial pact on migration by the end of the year, with his country on the cusp of taking over the bloc's rotating presidency on July 1. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Spain sets out migration, industry as priorities for EU presidency

By Jennifer O'Mahony - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron discusses with exhibitorsas he visits the Vivatech exhibition in Paris, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Europe's biggest startup and tech event runs until Sunday June 18, 2023. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)

France’s Macron wants to boost AI, calls for rules that don’t impede tech growth

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

A Google sign is shown at the company's office in San Francisco, on April 12, 2023. European Union antitrust regulators on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, took aim at Google's lucrative digital advertising business, ordering the tech giant to sell off some of its ad services to address competition concerns. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Google should break up digital ad business over competition concerns, European regulators say

By Kelvin Chan and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

The ChatGPT app is seen on an iPhone in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023. Authorities worldwide are racing to rein in artificial intelligence, including in the European Union, where groundbreaking legislation is set to pass a key hurdle. European Parliament lawmakers are due to vote Wednesday, June 14 on the proposal, along with controversial facial recognition amendments. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Montenegro's capital Podgorica, Sunday, June 11, 2023. Montenegro votes in an early parliamentary election which is seen as a test of whether the small NATO-member Balkan country can overcome deep internal political divisions and instability that have hampered its European Union membership path. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

Montenegro holds snap parliamentary election that could determine EU path

By Predrag Milic - Associated Press

Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks with the media at the Council of Europe summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Tunisia is hosting the leaders of Italy, the Netherlands and the European Commission on Sunday, June 11, 2023 for talks aimed at smoothing the way for an international bailout, and restoring stability to a country that has become a major source of migration to Europe. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

European leaders offer more aid to Tunisia amid efforts to curb migration

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

A woman walks past a pre-election billboard showing pro-Serbian and Russian coalition called "For the Future of Montenegro" in Podgorica, Montenegro, Friday, June 9, 2023. Montenegro is holding an early parliamentary election Sunday, a vote that could provide indications of whether the small NATO member in the Balkans will overcome the deep political divisions and instability that have hampered its route to joining the European Union. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

Montenegro holds snap parliamentary vote that could determine its EU path

By Predrag Milic - Associated Press

Participants join an anti-government march led by the centrist opposition party leader Donald Tusk, who along with other critics accuses the government of eroding democracy, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 4, 2023. Poland's largest opposition party led a march Sunday meant to mobilize voters against the right-wing government, which it accuses of eroding democracy and following Hungary and Turkey down the path to autocracy. The march is being held on the 34th anniversary of the first partly free elections, a democratic breakthrough in the toppling of communism across Eastern Europe. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

EU launches legal action against Poland over new Russian influence law

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

FILE - A view of part of the wreckage of a capsized boat that was washed ashore at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, on Feb. 27, 2023. Italian media say three members of Italy's border police are being investigated for a suspected role in a shipwreck off the country's southern coast this year that killed more than 90 migrants. Corriere della Sera newspaper said Friday, June 2 investigators cited “significant anomalies” in the border police's log of activity of their patrol boat that had been reported to have searched for the overcrowded migrant vessel, that would break apart after ramming a sandbank close to Cutro. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia, File)

After years of bickering, EU claims breakthrough in migration talks

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

FILE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a panel discussion at the Global Citizen NOW Summit, on April 27, 2023, in New York. The European Union's executive arm proposed Thursday June 8, 2023 to create an ethics body that would set up common rules of conduct for institutions after the 27-nation bloc was rocked last year by a cash-for-influence scandal. Von der Leyen supported its creation when she took office back in 2019, and her services stepped up action after the so-called Qatargate scandal shattered the EU Parliament. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

EU Commission proposes common ethics body for all EU officials in wake of corruption scandal

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Newly approved Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, speaks at the Bulgarian Parliament before the parliamentary vote, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Sofia. Bulgaria's parliament on Tuesday formally approved the country's new government proposed by the two main political rivals in a bid to end the 30-months-long political crisis, restore stability and spur economic development in the poorest EU member country. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Bulgaria gets new government as former rivals enter uneasy alliance

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European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova addresses the plenary at the European Parliament in Brussels, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and other content generated by artificial intelligence, EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said Monday. (Yves Herman, Pool via AP, File)

Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

Men with Poland and European Union flags take part in a protest outside Poland's parliament building as lawmakers voted to approve the much-criticized legislation that allows politicians to fire judges who criticize their decisions, in Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 23, 2020. The European Union stepped up its rule-of-law fight with member state Poland on Monday, June 5, 2023, when the bloc's highest court confirmed that Warsaw had refused to comply with EU rules on judicial independence for which it has already lost over half a billion euros in fines. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

EU top court says that Poland’s justice reform infringes EU law

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

People enjoy drinks and snacks in the evening sun on a terrace overlooking Stockholm, on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Smoking is prohibited in both indoor and outdoor areas of bars and restaurants in Sweden, which has the lowest share of smokers in the European Union. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)

Sweden close to becoming first ‘smoke free’ country in Europe as daily use of cigarettes dwindles

By Karl Ritter and Charlene Pele - Associated Press

Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Competition, left, shakes hands with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a stakeholder event, in connection to the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) meeting between Europe and the United States, in Lulea, Sweden, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency via AP)

U.S., Europe working on voluntary AI code of conduct as calls grow for regulation

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A woman runs past the government building, decorated with European Union and Moldovan flags in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Moldova will host the Meeting of the European Political Community on June 1, 2023. Preparations for a major summit of European leaders were still underway in Moldova on Wednesday, a sign of the Eastern European country’s ambitions to draw closer to the West and break with its Russian-dominated past amid the war in neighboring Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

EU aspirant Moldova prepares to host major international summit

By Justin Spike and Raf Casert and Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Kemi Badenoch, Britain's Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade, Minister for Women and Equalities leaves after attending a cabinet meeting in Downing Street in London, on Jan. 17, 2023. The U.K. government on Wednesday May 10, 2023 scrapped plan to remove all remaining EU laws, some 4,000 in all, from British statute books by the end of this year — a post-Brexit goal that critics said was rash and unachievable. Badenoch said in a written statement that the government would instead draw up a list of about 600 specific laws that would be revoked. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

U.K. hails first post-Brexit trade deals with Australia, New Zealand, but impact likely small

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press