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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will pay a two-day visit to Brussels to discuss the future of Turkey-EU relations with senior EU officials, including matters concerning visa waiver to Turkish nationals, updating customs union and renewing of migrant deal.

Turkey is "very important" to the European Union and trust must be rebuilt between the two sides, said the EU Parliament's new Turkey rapporteur.

"Where there is a will, there is a #deal - we have one! It's a fair and balanced agreement for the EU and the UK and it is testament to our commitment to find solutions", Juncker said.
"I recommend that #EUCO endorses this deal", he said, as Reuters reports.

MEPs "are not impressed" by the proposed new withdrawal agreement by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Guy Verhofstadt, the EU Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator, said he was "absolutely not positive about Johnson's proposals".

Banks in the eurozone will get more time to set aside cash to cover for loans that have gone or will go unpaid after the European Central Bank bowed to pressure from Brussels to ease its rules on the matter.

There have been no cyber attacks during the Bulgarian elections for EU Parliament and the election security was well organized, Bulgaria's Interior Minister, Mladen Marionv, said on May 28. He participated in the opening of a roundtable on "Cyber Security Challenges to the Institutions and Business in Bulgaria" at Inter Expo Center in Sofia, reports BNT. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the top candidate of the centrist European People's Party, EPP, for the post of European Commission President, Manfred Weber, will participate in the central election conference of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, on Saturday in Zagreb.

A poll by news website Politico gives main opposition New Democracy a 9.5 percent lead over ruling SYRIZA in the European elections this month, according to a poll published Tuesday.
Conservatives are projected to garner 35.22 percent of the vote and nine seats in the EU Parliament, versus 25.74 percent for SYRIZA and seven seats.

A section of Greece's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that 40 parties and coalitions will participate in the upcoming European elections on May 26.
A total of 49 parties had registered to run at the top court's prosecutor's office but nine failed to pay the required 3,000 euros fee or to present a full list of candidates.

A total of 49 Greek parties are registered to run in the European Parliament elections on May 26, up from 43 in 2014. The final number may be lower, however, as parties have to pay a 5,000-euro fee to participate. MEP candidates pay 500 euros.