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The European Commission will continue talks with Ukraine on natural gas supplies to Europe and will include Hungary and Slovakia in these talks, according to a statement shared by a EU diplomat and seen by Reuters on Monday.

The European Commission has approved Polish government plans to grant over €1.7 billion in financial aid for a €4.15 billion Intel semiconductor plant.

The European Commission (EC), which has recently launched an excessive deficit procedure (EDP) against Poland, will take into account the country’s defense spending when considering a corrective plan, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said.

The leaders of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic have written a joint letter to the president of the European Commission to request greater financial support for hosting the lion’s share of refugees from Ukraine.

The bloc’s potentially-disciplining Article 7 procedure was initiated against Poland in 2017 over what Brussels saw as a clear threat to the rule of law.

The European Commissioner said that negotiations with Serbia to exploit raw materials, including lithium, are nearing completion.

The upcoming EU election will test the Union’s resilience against disinformation, European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

“After more than 6 years, we believe that the Article 7 procedure can be closed. I congratulate PM Donald Tusk and his government on this important breakthrough. This is a result of Poland’s hard work and determined reform efforts,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday on social media.

May 1, 2004, was a milestone in the history of a unified Europe; with Poland as the largest of the 10 new member states, that enlargement completely changed the European Union, and for the better, European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager stressed in a commentary for the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

The EU Commission utilized newly granted authority to conduct surprise visits on a Chinese surveillance firm Nuctech under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, potentially complicating relations with Beijing even further.

“I urge the Senate to quickly send this package to my desk so that I can sign it into law and we can quickly send weapons and equipment to Ukraine to meet their urgent battlefield needs,” U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement following the approval by the House of Representatives of a $61 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine. Similar sentiments were echoed by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. Meanwhile, The Economist reported on Sunday that once the aid is approved, the Pentagon should be able to start delivering missiles to Ukraine within two weeks.

The aim of the excessive deficit procedure is for EU member states to rectify their high deficits and/or levels of debt.

Poland and Lithuania have welcomed the proposal put forth by the European Commission (EC) on Friday to impose tariffs on grain products from Russia and Belarus. Adam Szłapka, the Polish minister to the European Union (EU), said that the introduction of EU tariffs on grain imports from these two countries would be “a great help for farmers.”

The European Green Deal is a package of policy initiatives aimed at putting the EU on the path to ecological transformation.

The European Parliament will vote on the agreement next month before it becomes law.

Another round of talks between Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and representatives of protesting farmers has not resulted in any breakthrough or agreement, announced one of the protest leaders on Saturday.

Apple (AAPL.O) was hit with a EUR 1.84 billion (USD 2 bn) European Union (EU) antitrust fine on Monday, its first ever and comprising mostly a deterrent, for preventing Spotify (SPOT.N) and other music streaming services from informing users of payment options outside its App Store.

Leaders of the six Western Balkan states on Thursday agreed to cut financial transaction costs across the region by the end of the year in a first step towards accession to the single European Union (EU) market.

Krzysztof Gawkowski, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs, held talks on Thursday with European Commission (EC) Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson, aimed at accelerating the approval process over public aid for an investment in Poland by the U.S. tech company Intel.

Poland has met the conditions necessary to unlock EUR 76 billion in structural funds from Brussels over the next three years, the European Commission (EC), the European Union’s (EU) executive arm, has announced. The Commission added that Poland has also managed to unlock the resources allocated for Warsaw from the EU post-pandemic recovery fund.