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BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will attend an EU-Western Balkans summit in Brussels on Wednesday.

The summit will be chaired by new European Council President Antonio Costa and also attended by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Vucic will attend a European People's Party-Western Balkans summit as well.

The European Commission acknowledges Turkey’s enhanced role in Syria ahead of a meeting next week in Ankara between its President, Ursula von der Leyen, and Turkish President Erdoğan.

“Turkey is one of the key players in the region,” stated Commission spokesperson Paola Pini today, when asked about von der Leyen’s upcoming trip to Ankara.

The European Union (EU) and Mercosur countries have reached a landmark agreement to establish one of the world's largest trade deals, encompassing a free trade area of over 780 million people.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will be on a one-day visit to Brussels on Tuesday for separate meetings with EU officials, the presidential press office has announced.

The European Commission (EC) has initiated criminal proceedings against Bulgaria and 22 other EU member states for failing to fully implement critical cybersecurity regulations.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday congratulated European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on a new five-year term and expressed the hope they would together lead Serbia and the region to EU membership.

The European Parliament has confirmed the new European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, following a vote in Strasbourg. The approval came with a slim majority of just 52 votes, with 370 MEPs voting in favor, 282 against, and 36 abstentions. The "Von der Leyen-2" Commission is set to take office on December 1.

A saga that has lasted nearly four months is expected to come to a close tonight in Strasbourg, as MEPs attending the plenary session of theEuropean Parliament will be asked to decide whether to give a vote of confidence to the College of Commissioners, or “Commission von der Leyen 2.0”.

Greece is one of the 20 countries that received approval of the Medium Term Plan and one of the 8 countries whose Draft Budgetary Plans were assessed positively both in terms of the recommendations of the European Semester and in the context of respecting the expenditure ceilings.

The European Commission president's 2023 holiday at the Cretan summer house of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has revealed a "structural shortcoming" in the bloc's ethics rules, the European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly said in a press release on Tuesday.