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The European Union's Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has issued a fine of more than 200 million euros to Greece for failing to stop a wide-scale tax fraud by Chinese criminal gangs importing ultra-cheap goods through the country's largest port of Piraeus, news portal Politico reported on Monday.

A collaboration between Kathimerini and Politico for one in a series of online newsletters exploring national and European politics in the countdown to European elections in May went live this week.

Welcome to POLITICO's special edition European Elections Playbook series. I'm Ryan Heath, political editor at POLITICO, and I'll be exploring the intersection of national and European politics in 15 EU countries in weekly newsletters up until the May 2019 poll.

The people of the Greek island of Lesvos are poised to receive the inaugural John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service for their response to the refugee crisis, Politico has reported.

According to its daily briefing, the American news site said that the announcement was made by Cindy McCain, the widow of the respected US statesman who died on August 25.

Hungarian Prime Minister Vikor Orban will attend the September 27 opening of a football academy in the northern Serbian village of Backa Topola, which has been funded by the Hungarian government with 9.5 million euros.

Bucharest, Aug 3 /Agerpres/ - In Romania, the conditions for success exist and, in case the agreement with Bell will be accepted by the Romanian and US governments, our country will be the only place outside the United States where the AH-1Z and the UH-1Y aircraft will be produced, said, in an interview granted to AGERPRES, Joel Best, director for Global Business Development Europe with Bell He

Jacopo Barigazzi, Politico - A new plan for reforming the EU's rules on asylum went down badly Tuesday, with Hungary accusing its authors of trying too hard to please Germany.

Bulgaria, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, unveiled its new plan — seen by POLITICO — at a meeting of EU ambassadors, but Budapest was bitterly opposed.

A "deep and comprehensive" trade deal of the kind the U.K. says it wants with the EU would require Britain to accept a "binding convergence mechanism" with EU laws, according to a draft resolution from the European Parliament obtained by POLITICO.

The European Union intends to demand from Russia an annual EUR 1.39 billion due to restrictions on imports of pig meat, RIA Novosti reports, quoted by BGNES.

A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed her island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers has been killed after a bomb exploded in her car.