The European Union took a tentative step closer to a new price-cap regime on Russian oil that would aim to push the price of Moscow’s barrels down even further and keep the pressure on in the future.

Most European Union countries have backed plans to agree a deal on their new climate change target by September, sources familiar with the discussions said on Friday.

British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said Friday she expected Brussels to back a new so-called "one-in, one-out," deal with France aimed at curbing the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.

Two of the sources said the framework may be similar to the one agreed with Britain in May. In that deal, the U.S. cut tariffs on British-made cars to 10% and British carmakers received a import quota of 100,000 cars a year at the lower tariff rate, almost the total Britain exported last year.

Meta Platforms is very unlikely to offer more changes to its pay-or-consent model, meaning it is almost certain to be hit by fresh EU antitrust charges and hefty daily fines, people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

The European Union has released a code of practice on general purpose artificial intelligence to help thousands of businesses in the 27-nation bloc using the technology comply with the bloc’s landmark AI rule book.

The EU remains hopeful it will strike a deal to avoid steep levies Trump has threatened on its exports to the US.

Migration into the European Union pushed its population to a record 450.4 million people last year, offsetting a natural population decline for the fourth straight year, EU data released on Friday showed.

European environment ministers underwent blood testing for “forever chemicals” Thursday in a publicity exercise to highlight the alarming reach of the toxic substances.