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In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about 67% of the people in the Republic of Ireland favouring a United Ireland according to a new poll, Czechia being among the first EU countries to test the digital green certificates in the next two weeks, and so much more.

Albanian President Ilir Meta has demanded a recount of invalid votes in the 25 April elections in Albania, exit.al has reported. In a statement on Sunday, Meta noted that the percentage of invalid votes in the last elections was more...

During an official visit to Sarajevo on Saturday, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his BiH counterpart Bisera Turković signed an agreement activating a previously approved grant of JPY 500 million (€3.8 million) to provide necessary equipment for the BiH...

Belgrade has vaccinated 600,592 people, or 43% of the population, against COVID-19, Deputy Mayor Goran Vesić said on Friday. “We have the best results in the 65 to 74 population, 72.52% of whom have been vaccinated,” Vesić said adding that...

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will return the mandate for the formation of a government, the party central announced on Saturday (1 May). This was the party’s third – and last – attempt to form a government following the 4...

Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman has thanked Italy for being one of the first countries to help Croatia by sending aid in the wake of a devastating earthquake at the end of last year. Read more. Italy sent 100...

Sweden summoned Russia's ambassador to Stockholm on Saturday (1 May), denouncing Moscow for sanctioning European Union officials including a Swedish researcher in an escalating row between Russia and the West.

While talks continue at the EU level on proposed common COVID-19 vaccination certificates, Slovenia and Hungary have decided to press ahead bilaterally, and mutually recognise their respective certificates. The Slovenian foreign ministry announced this weekend that a vaccination certificate issued...

Northern Ireland marks its 100th year on Monday (3 May), but faltering efforts to commemorate the centenary encapsulate the rift at the heart of the British province.

Youth celebrating further relaxation of measures partied hard in the centre of the Hungarian capital on Saturday as nightlife returned to the city after the country hit 4 million vaccinated last week. Young people failed to keep social distancing rules...

Britain this week hosts the first face-to-face meeting of G7 foreign ministers in two years, joined by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as world powers tackle pandemic recovery plus growing tensions with Russia and China.

French President Emmanuel Macron's party, affiliated to Renew Europe, has formed an alliance with Les Républicains (EPP-affiliated) for regional elections in June in the southern Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, the prime minister was cited as saying on Sunday (2 May).

According to Czech Television, technical testing of the digital green certificates will start in two weeks, making Czechia among the first group of countries where the certificates will be tested during May. EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders confirmed that certificates...

The national recovery plan (NPR), which was submitted last Friday and outlines how funds from the EU’s recovery plan will be allocated, will be discussed in the parliament’s lower house known as the Sejm on Tuesday. The draft law focuses...

Half of Finnish citizens consider the EU recovery package as necessary for the bloc’s future, while the others see it as benefiting mostly southern EU states and being unfair to their country, a new poll conducted in the second week...

As every year, skirmishes between police and protesters broke out at May Day rallies in Berlin, Paris and Brussels over the weekend. In Berlin, around 30,000 protesters took to the streets during May Day rallies on Saturday, police said, with close...

The nomination of controversial former ex-intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maaßen to run in Germany’s general election in the eastern state of Thuringia has prompted controversy within Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU). Maaßen was approved in Suhl on Friday evening by...

International team of researchers also found that deforestation rose nearly four-fold in 2019. EURACTIV's media partner The Guardian, reports.

Bulgaria will head to the polls in July after the Socialists became the third political party to refuse to lead a government following last month's parliamentary election, Reuters reports. The Socialists said it would be impossible to build a working majority in a fragmented parliament and would return the mandate immediately after the president hands it to them on 5 May.

Police fired water cannon and tear gas in the Brussels' Bois de la Cambre park to break up an anti-lockdown party of many hundreds of people this weekend, designed to defy coronavirus social-distancing rules, Reuters reports. It took place a month after police cleared 2,000 people who gathered in the same park for la Boum (the party), an event that had begun as an April Fool's joke.