Under the proposal, the UK would initially return 50 Channel migrants to France each week, in exchange for the same number of asylum seekers.

French President Emmanuel Macron has told a banquet at London's Guildhall that the UK and EU were stronger together. Mr Macron was speaking on the penultimate day of his state visit to the UK.

The motion contained a mix of allegations against Ms von der Leyen, including text messaging privately with the boss of Pfizer during the pandemic.

Coffee maker Lavazza on Wednesday called for the European Union's deforestation law to be delayed by a further year, saying implementation would hurt producers in Africa and Central America and drive up prices.

Amid upcoming changes to the Markets in Financial Instruments frameworks via the EU MiFID Review and UK Wholesale Markets Review (WMR), we explore their impact on non-equity market instruments.