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A proposed meeting between King Charles and the president of the EU Commission just days before an expected deal on the Northern Ireland protocol has been cancelled at the last minute.Sources close to the palace said this was done for 'operational reasons' but the meeting was seen by some as an attempt by the government to politicise the monarchy.

French strikes don't just affect France particularly when it comes to air travel.As a cursory glance at the map will show you, France is geographically pretty central to Europe, so many flights within the continent pass over French airspace in fact roughly half of the flights in French airspace are only passing through, known as overflights'.

French strikes don't just affect France particularly when it comes to air travel.As a cursory glance at the map will show you, France is geographically pretty central to Europe, so many flights within the continent pass over French airspace in fact roughly half of the flights in French airspace are only passing through, known as overflights'.

French strikes don't just affect France particularly when it comes to air travel.As a cursory glance at the map will show you, France is geographically pretty central to Europe, so many flights within the continent pass over French airspace in fact roughly half of the flights in French airspace are only passing through, known as overflights'.

French strikes don't just affect France particularly when it comes to air travel.As a cursory glance at the map will show you, France is geographically pretty central to Europe, so many flights within the continent pass over French airspace in fact roughly half of the flights in French airspace are only passing through, known as overflights'.

French strikes don't just affect France particularly when it comes to air travel.As a cursory glance at the map will show you, France is geographically pretty central to Europe, so many flights within the continent pass over French airspace in fact roughly half of the flights in French airspace are only passing through, known as overflights'.

The airline's chief executive Michael O'Leary apologised to 40,000 passengers affected by the cancelations and hit out at French authorities and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen over the disruption.In a video posted on social media, he claimed flights using French airspace without departing from or arriving in France were being importunately affected by the strike action.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday urged European allies to accelerate Ukraine's European Union membership bid, as Rome hosted a bilateral conference on the war-torn country's reconstruction attended by hundreds of Italian and Ukrainian businesses.The future of Ukraine must include an always wider capacity of integrating with the European dynamics and institutions, Meloni said, in joint statements with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on the sidelines of the conference.

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: German media giant Axel Springer shifts its focus to digital and the US; the EU Commission centres its antitrust probe into Apple on app restrictions; and YouTube has been accused of collecting data on children aged under 13.Axel Springer plans major restructure
One of Europe's largest news organisations, Axel Springer, has announced an overhaul of its domestic operations.

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Senior Tory Brexiteer David Frost has begrudgingly backed Rishi Sunak's post-Brexit deal with the EU to reform the Northern Ireland Protocol, but said it was a bitter pill to swallow.

Last January Microsoft offered to buy Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal, but that's still facing various issues and it's not finalized.The latest obstacle comes from the EU commissions, which isn't convinced the acquisition will do the market any good.According to people familiar with the matter, EU's antitrust commission has serious concerns and is readying a statement of objections against the deal.

Sweden's foreign minister Tobias Billstrom commented Turkey's decision on his way into a meeting with EU colleagues in Brussels on Monday.Of course I am aware that my colleague, [Turkish] foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has announced that they are ready to restart the discussion with Sweden, and we are obviously ready to do so, he told Swedish press.

Sweden took over the EU Presidency on January 1st.Swedish ministers and civil servants will lead negotiations on upwards of 300 issues during approximately 2,000 meetings, mainly in Brussels and Luxembourg.Sweden will have the difficult job of finding compromises between the EU countries and building consensus in European institutions.