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Press briefing ahead of the Competitiveness Council will take place on 8 June at 13:30.

Leaders of India's Hindu nationalist ruling party on Tuesday (7 June) instructed officials to be "extremely cautious" when talking about religion on public platforms after derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad drew protests from Islamic nations.

In brief

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In brief

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South Korea's tougher stance towards the North under its new conservative president will be welcomed by Tokyo as Japan seeks to boost its military capabilities amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and more broadly in the region, analysts say.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Czech president saying he will veto a bill on legalising same-sex marriage, the Portuguese PM calling Europe's energy sector its greatest weakness, and so much more.

Ukrainian forces struggled to hold their ground in bloody street-to-street fighting in the eastern frontline city of Severodonetsk as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the situation was difficult, also pledging to retake Russia's gains.

EU lawmakers on Tuesday (7 June) agreed on a continental target to establish better gender balance on the boards of companies in Europe.

The European Commission and Greek authorities cannot answer whether the seizure of the Russian tanker that transported Iranian oil from Greece constitutes a violation of European rules.  The seizure was also why the naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard...

The matter of the mass removal of ethnic Albanians from voting lists in the southern-Serbian Presevo Valley will be discussed by the United Nations following a meeting between Albanian political representatives and Albania’s ambassador to the UN. In 2020, Exit-...

The announcement that European Commissioner for enlargement Oliver Varhelyi will attend day two of the Open Balkan initiative just a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov appeared to support it has caused outrage amongst politicians and analysts in Albania....

The EU will lose credibility if it does not focus on the EU integration of Western Balkan countries, which is being threatened by Russia’s war in Ukraine, speakers at a conference attended by high-level representatives of Serbian and Romanian institutions...

The EU's stalled accession process has become a security issue amid an increase in the influence of foreign players in the vulnerable Western Balkans region, North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovačevski told EURACTIV in an interview.

Ukraine, energy security, defence and cybersecurity, economic and democratic resilience. These are the five subjects that top the political agenda of the upcoming Czech Presidency, as detailed in a draft internal document obtained by EURACTIV. The Czech Republic will take...

Packaging has been a focus of environmental policies for a number of years and for good reason. The simple existence of what is considered a seventh continent called the Great Pacific garbage patch is a reminder of the damage associated with poor packaging and recycling systems, but also an incentive to act.

The Constitutional Court has suspended the implementation of provisions of the new environmental protection act that deal with extended producer responsibility (EPR). In a unanimous decision, the court stayed provisions of five articles passed in March. Deciding on the matter...

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet on Tuesday (7 June) urged Europe to seize the momentum created by its newfound diplomatic unity and "start moving now" to develop its own human spaceflight capacity.

New US sanctions against a top Bosnian Croat official represent “arrogant terrorising of a legitimate representative of the Croat people”, Croatian President Zoran Milanović said on Tuesday, upping the ante in his nationalist rhetoric often aimed against the West. The...

Defence ministers in the Bucharest Nine (B9) format adopted a joint statement on their commitment and common position in promoting defence and security priorities on the Eastern flank. Defence ministers of the B9 format participated in a meeting on Monday...

Polish households will receive subsidies to weather the impact of coal shortages and high prices, according to one of the several support measures announced by Climate and Environment Minister Anna Moskwa on Tuesday. The embargo on Russian coal imports that...