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EU Summit: What to expect from the special foreign affairs meeting

Here's a look at the big foreign policy issues EU leaders are set to tackle as they sit down for talks in Brussels.

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MEPs want EU funding to be linked to respect for rule of law

As MEPs return from the summer recess, negotiations began to get their approval for the EU's €1.8 trillion budget.

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European researchers in shock as EU leaders cut funds for innovation

EU leaders have slashed the Horizon 2020 funding destined for research and innovation — a decision deemed short-sighted by researchers for the future productivity and creativity of Europe.

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Europe's week: a historic summit or sowing seeds of future discord?

This week we look back at the marathon talks between EU leaders and the potential impact on relations between member states.

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Italy

Relief in Italy and Greece after EU coronavirus recovery deal

There was a lot of wrangling at the EU summit over the size and terms of the coronavirus recovery fund. For once, the hard-hit southern states don’t feel like they’re losing out.

Hungary

Hungary claims victory in EU recovery fund talks

"The Eastern European countries have learned the EU negotiating game – and Orban has become quite good at this," one political analyst told Euronews.

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Watch back: EU Parliament will make 'certain corrections' to budget

David Sassoli said the EU parliament was pleased with the EU recovery package but would improve on the budget.

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'Historic day': EU leaders react to COVID-19 recovery package deal

Historic, groundbreaking and imperfect. They are just some of the words being used to describe the EU's newly agreed coronavirus recovery package.

Economy

EU leaders reach landmark €1.82 trillion COVID-19 recovery package

EU leaders have adopted the trillion-euro coronavirus rescue package after marathon talks in Brussels.

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EU marathon summit turning into a ‘fight over sovereignty’

"You have to intrude into national politics when you have joint money, and that's what's really at stake," says German economist Guntram Wolff.

Economy

EU leaders 'far apart' on trillion-euro COVID-19 recovery package deal

The good news is leaders agree a common response is needed. The bad news is that they disagree on how the money should be handed out.

Economy

No breakthrough as EU splits remain over €750bn COVID-19 recovery plan

Europe remains divided on the issue. On one side Germany, France, Italy and Spain, who back the plan, and four nations who don’t, the so-called "frugal four": Austria, The Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.

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EU leaders meet via video-conference - so do our correspondents

Euronews' correspondents discuss the measures EU leaders could take over the coronavirus crisis

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EU budget battle stretches into extra time as divisions continue

European leaders meet for a second day of talks to hammer out a compromise over the EU's long-term budget.

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Watch again: Sassoli speaks amid tense EU budget summit

EU leaders are arguing in Brussels over the bloc's spending plan for the next seven years.

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How Brexit has left the EU at a crossroads over its future spending

The EU budget battle has pitched the frugal rich against those received more than they put in from Brussels.

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EU summit climate showdown

Europe's new Green Deal faces its first test as EU leaders meet in Brussels with the aim of agreeing to carbon neutrality by 2050, but not every country is on board ahead of talks.

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EU member states agree on climate neutrality by 2050 without Poland

EU leaders will on Thursday "advance altogether on a very important topic, that of our climate ambition", French President Emmanuel Macron said upon arrival in Brussels.

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EU summit divided over Western Balkans

Divisions over the opening of negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia to join the EU left the summit in a stalemate.

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EU crunch summit - the stakes

Three years on from the vote which shocked Europe and the world. The Union Flag still flies here at the seat of EU power. Three British Prime Ministers have grappled with Brexit, our political editor guides you through the issues.