The launch of the digital euro could give every European a free, universal payment account. But this grand vision is at risk of being curtailed by a well-coordinated lobbying campaign of the banking industry. Banks want to make sure you will keep needing them – and they have EU officials’ ears.

In Portugal, voters will choose their Brussels representatives three months after having boosted the far-right Chega's parliamentary caucus. Half a century after Portugal's democratic revolution, the new party is going from strength to strength.

Initially dubbed the 'People's Olympics', this summer's Olympic Games in Paris are all about enormous business on the one hand, and widespread social violence on the other. Francesca Barca had a look at what French newspapers are saying.