This brings the total amount of EU aid for Palestinians in Gaza and the wider region to €193 million since the beginning of the year. The EU is also involved in airdropping supplies.
In their last plenary session in Strasbourg before the EU elections, MEPs approved a provisional agreement reached in February to tighten rules on air pollution. According to the European Environment Agency, poor air quality is a major health risk.
The United Kingdom’s House of Lords has approved a bill to establish a controversial asylum pact with Rwanda. The Council of Europe – a human rights body independent of the EU – has strongly criticised the bill.
According to a study by PwC Strategy&, the EU is far from meeting its own 2030 clean hydrogen targets. The report also said that Germany is not on track with its plans.
The volume of British-German trade has fallen significantly after Brexit, according to a survey by the British Chamber of Commerce in Germany. The United Kingdom left the European Union in 2020, which had a negative impact on bilateral trade with the bloc.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser met with her Romanian counterpart to discuss the countries’ cooperation on migration and asylum. As part of efforts to fully join the borderless Schengen zone, Bulgaria and Romania have recently made progress in protecting the EU’s external borders.