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Amid this week's flurry of talks on AI regulation in Strasbourg, a new study found YouTube to have boosted the far right in Finland's national elections.

Last year was the hottest in recorded human history. The necessity of action is becoming a worldwide consensus, with the EU hoping to be a beacon showing the world its best-in-class climate policy. There is just one problem: citizens hate it.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the growing calls for increased defence spending in Sweden, Duda and Tusk visiting the US together despite conflict at home, and so much more.

EU countries systematically underestimate the speed at which renewables will be added to grids in their development plans – making the investment gap larger than thought, new research made available to Euractiv has shown. 

The US State Department’s Special Representative to the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, stated that the US is committed to continuing dialogue on normalisation of Kosovo-Serbia relations ahead of his visit to Pristina.

Croatian MEP Željana Zovko, who was Bosnia’s ambassador to Italy, France, and Spain, believes that the European Council will make a positive decision on Bosnia’s desire to join the EU, he told Euractiv ahead of the European Council’s meeting next week.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced on Tuesday his decision to enter the race for the role of NATO secretary-general, adding that Romania needs to take on “even greater responsibility” within the alliance.

President of the United States Joe Biden has pledged a $2 billion loan for Poland to bolster its security and defence while also offering to sell the country 96 Apache attack helicopters, following a visit from Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk to Washington on Tuesday.

Ammunition bought in non-EU countries under the Czech initiative could reach Ukrainian battlefields as early as June, Tomas Pojar, the Czech national security adviser and the prime minister’s advisor, said on Tuesday.

The next government should serve its term to the end, said outgoing Prime Minister António Costa, calling for ‘legislative stability.’

The liberal Centre Party called on Tuesday for Sweden to increase its defence spending from the NATO-recommended 2% to 3% of the country’s GDP less than a week after joining the alliance.

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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both clinched their parties' nomination on Tuesday (12 March), kicking off the first US presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years.

French parliamentarians are sharply divided on whether or not to ratify the EU-Canada free trade agreement, following farming protestors' heavy condemnation of trade measures that they argue create unfair competition.

In a non-binding vote on Tuesday (12 March), French MPs adopted the bilateral security agreement between Paris and Kiev. La France Insoumise (LFI, The Left) voted against, while Rassemblement National (RN, ID) abstained.

Russia remains in a state of combat readiness and is fully ready for a nuclear war, but not "everything is rushing to it" at present, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Wednesday (13 March).

EU leaders are next week expected to call for new sanctions targeting Belarus, North Korea, and Iran over their support to Russia's war efforts in Ukraine as the bloc attempts to further crack down on circumvention by third countries

Ukraine pounded targets in Russia on Tuesday (12 March) with dozens of drones and rockets in an attack that inflicted serious damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world's biggest nuclear power with armed proxies.

Germany should return to conscription from 2025, the parliament's armed forces commissioner said on Tuesday (12 March) as the defence ministry is working on a new model inspired by Nordic countries.

Late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's long-time aide Leonid Volkov was assaulted with a hammer in the Lithuanian capitol Vilnius on Tuesday (12 March), former Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said.