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European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to back a revamp of the single market, simplified regulations and other steps to ensure the bloc can compete with the United States and China as an industrial leader in green and digital technologies.

Türkiye has a new opportunity for European Union membership as the EU's current focus is security, which means a newly constructed relationship with NATO, Germany's former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has stated.

Greece is putting forward a plan to overhaul the EU's electricity grids in order to lay the foundations for a massive rollout of renewable power. Athens is arguing that efforts to expand and strengthen Europe's electricity grid need to be stepped up in order to handle the transition to solar and wind, especially with the EU looking to reach climate neutrality by the middle of the century.

Interior Minister Grald Darmanin said that an additional 12,000 policemen and gendarmes will be deployed across the country, 5,000 of which will be in Paris, French online television BFMTV reported.
Darmanin repeated that in France there is freedom of expression, but not the right to create riots and incidents at street protests.

The supply of 155 mm projectiles to Ukraine should be part of the general conclusions for the country, which are expected to be proposed at the European Council starting tomorrow in Brussels.

This was reported by diplomatic sources.

The leaders of the EU member states will participate in the meeting.

BELGRADE - Under economic criteria, a country that wants to become an EU member state must prove that it has a market that is based on competition and economic competence, Serbia's European Integration Minister Tanja Miscevic noted on Wednesday.

Türkiye and Greece have agreed to further move on the "positive agenda" items in bilateral relations after the fourth round of discussions on the Joint Action Plan.

Airports and ports of entry around Greece are being reinforced with 1,118 police officers ahead of the tourist season, according to an announcement by Minister of Citizens' Protection Takis Theodorikakos on Tuesday after he met with with Minister of Tourism Vassilis Kikilias.

Though education in technology is a must, "education should not underestimate and cannot replace the importance of traditional values and principles," declared Panos Kourkountis, keynote speaker at last week's Greener Shipping Summit in Athens, themed "New Technologies and Education."

The date of Greece's general elections should have already been announced. The country has been in campaign mode for weeks, which affects the work of ministers and the state. 

The political uncertainty and the resulting risk preoccupy investors and markets. We now know when the Turkish elections will be held as well as the constitutional margins for holding elections here.