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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally submitted a completed questionnaire on EU membership to the bloc's envoy in Kyiv on Monday (18 April) and said he believed this step would lead to his country gaining candidate status 'within weeks'.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accused Ukraine and an unidentified EU country of being behind a series of hoax bomb threats against Air Serbia planes.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen traded barbs Monday (18 April) as they returned to campaigning for the French presidency ahead of a prime-time debate that is likely to prove decisive ahead of Sunday's second-round run-off.

Prospects of a swift return to civilian rule in Chad seem to be fading nearly a year after the son of the country's veteran leader took the helm after his father died fighting rebels.

Oil edged lower on Monday (18 April) as worries over slowing demand in China balanced support from concern over tight global supply and the deepening Ukraine crisis.

Ukraine and Russia have failed to agree on humanitarian convoys for the evacuation of civilians from war-affected areas for the second day, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Monday (18 April).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Serbs rallying against Russia's exclusion from the UN Human Rights Council, Austria saying it will prosecute Russian war crimes, and so much more.

Prices of goods and services for personal consumption, measured by the consumer prices index, were on average 7.3% higher this March than the previous year, the Croatian statistical office (DZS) said. This is the highest inflation rate since the summer...

The Director of Albania’s controversial Media and Information Agency (MIA), Endri Fuga, claimed that the institution is based on the German model, but EURACTIV Germany confirmed this is not true. MIA was established by the first decision of Prime Minister...

There is information that the Russian aggressors are trying to hide the traces of their crimes in Mariupil and are burning many dead civilians with that purpose, writes Roman Rukomeda.

EU and US Embassies in Pristina have called on the Kosovo government to refrain from speculating on the origin of a firearm attack that targeted their police on the border with Serbia. Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla spoke of an assault...

Ukrainian authorities condemned Russian artillery attacks on cities in the northeast and the continuing siege of the southern port city of Mariupol, of which Moscow said it had taken almost full control, following almost two months of bloody fighting.

Germany has suspended the funding of infrastructure projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb entity Republika Srpska because its political leaders are obstructing the work of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s central authorities and bringing its stability into question, the foreign ministry said....

The consequences of the war in Ukraine will be devastating for Ukraine and Russia, World Bank chief economist for Europe and Central Asia, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, said on Saturday, adding that the war would also affect the Western Balkans and that...

The number of Hungarians that would consider moving abroad has reached a high, K&H Bank found in a representative survey commissioned for the first quarter of its 2022 youth index, Telex reported via MTI. “The proportion of people looking abroad for work...

Russia’s demand to stop arms exports to Ukraine does not make any sense, the Czech foreign ministry said after Russia told the Czech Republic in a diplomatic note that they were banned from sending weapons to Ukraine. In a diplomatic...

Face masks will be mandatory in public transport and health centres “with no exceptions” as of Wednesday, Health Minister Carolina Darias has warned. In an interview published on Sunday (17 April) by El País, Darias clarified that masks to prevent...

Some Ukrainian soldiers wounded in fighting are being taken to Polish hospitals for treatment, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Poland has taken in almost three million refugees from the war-stricken country...

Protesters who attacked the police during riots in Norrköping and Linköping will face a “tough” response,  Interior and Justice Minister Morgan Johansson told a press conference on Sunday. Violence has erupted in various Swedish cities since 14 April as far-right...

The backlash against the UK government’s controversial £120 million plan to outsource the processing of thousands of asylum seeker claims to Rwanda continued over the weekend with criticism from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Church. Speaking...