| Germany's liberal FDP party wants to reopen negotiations on the EU's Due Diligence Directive after the issue was removed from the agenda of a meeting of EU ambassadors last Friday, which the party says shows the poor quality of the preliminary agreement reached in December under the Spanish presidency. Jonathan Packroff has the story. Political groups in the European Parliament offered radically opposing views on the EU's recommended climate objective for 2040 in a foretaste of the debates that will follow the EU elections in June and the sharp rightward shift that opinion polls have been pointing to for months writes Frédéric Simon. Meanwhile, in Hungary, President Katalin Novák and former Justice Minister Judith Varga, both close allies of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, announced their resignations on Saturday following outrage over a pardon granted to a man implicated in a child sex abuse case. In the meantime, in a new blow to Orbán at the European level, Romania’s rising far-right party AUR has expressed they will backtrack on their decision to join the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament if Hungarian ruling party Fidesz joins. Learn more in Max Griera’s article. Finally, with election season upon us, we invite you to the heart of European democracy with Euractiv's EU Elections Whatsapp channel. Get a front-row seat to breaking news, expert analysis and exclusive insights to understand the ins and outs of the EU election campaign. Sign up here. | 