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In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Malta promising to review its strict abortion laws in the coming months, Austria promising to investigate secrete Chinese police stations, and so much more.

A new long list of journalists and politicians, including a former prime minister, whose phones were reportedly bugged with the Predator illegal spyware published by Documento journal on Sunday has caused a shock in Greece and put the country’s democratic...

Twitter Inc's new CEO Elon Musk said on 6 November the social media platform's mission was to become the most accurate source of information, sparking debate about how it would achieve that and who determines what is accurate.

World leaders meeting Monday (7 November) for climate talks in Egypt are under pressure to deepen cuts in emissions and financially back developing countries already devastated by the effects of rising temperatures.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Sunday (6 November) against more potential Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, while the mayor of Kyiv urged residents to consider preparing to leave temporarily if the capital lost water and power supplies.

Euro zone finance ministers will discuss on Monday (7 November) how to better coordinate support for economies against soaring energy prices to reduce the uncertainty such schemes create for their 2023 budgets and to better prepare for a looming recession.

Lawmakers should boost much-needed green fuel production by inserting obligatory targets for biofuels derived from agricultural and forestry waste into the EU's upcoming green jet fuel law, the biofuels industry has told the European Commission.

Bosnia’s state prosecutors are looking into a suit filed against Croatian President Zoran Milanović for having allegedly denied the genocide in Srebrenica, Klix.ba reported on Sunday. The suit was filed last December by Social Democrat deputy Enver Bijedić, who said...

Left-liberal lawyer Nataša Pirc Musar looks likely to cruise to a comfortable win against conservative opposition MP Anže Logar in the presidential election run-off this Sunday, according to the latest polls. Musar, a prominent human rights advocate and former commissioner...

After all ethnic Serb representatives resigned from Kosovo institutions, Prime Minister Albin Kurti decried Serbian President Aleksander Vucic’s threats against the country, calling him a tool of the Kremlin as Serbs rally in the north. On Saturday, Serb representatives resigned...

Greece's supreme court has ordered a probe into a bombshell report that more than 30 politicians, journalists and businessmen were targeted by state surveillance, a justice source said Sunday (6 November).

Slovak customs officers allowed the export of thousands of items used for the production of supplies for the Russian army since the start of the war in Ukraine in February, Denník N reports. The items exported include bearings, engines, electronics...

The Chamber of Deputies approved a bill which, if approved by the Senate and signed by the president, will impose a 60% windfall tax on the profits of energy companies and banks deemed excessive. The Czech government hopes the windfall...

President Andrzej Duda has questioned Brussels’ disbursal of EU funds necessary for Poland to implement its recovery plan, arguing that Poland has already shown too much goodwill in the process. For over a year, Poland has been struggling to receive...

Malta, one of the few European countries to have a blanket ban on abortion, is expected to amend its abortion laws in the coming months, Prime Minister Robert Abela told local media in an interview. Under the current law, it...

As of Sunday, four boats with almost 1,000 migrants on board were stationed off the Italian coast, but the government only allowed women and children to disembark while claiming EU laws are being breached and asking for redistribution assistance. The...

The country’s 150-year-old criminal code will be reformed to feature ecocide and the crime of inciting suicide as part of the reform to modernise and simplify it, Belgian news media reported on Saturday. Belgium has taken up the task of...

The recent takeover of Twitter by multi-billionaire Elon Musk calls for stricter supervision of the social media giant’s activities in Europe, according to Olaf Scholz’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD). Musk acquired social media network Twitter for $44 billion on 27...

London will Monday (7 November) urge Brussels to unblock access to European scientific programmes for British researchers, which it says is provided for in the post-Brexit trade deal.

The Court of Appeal in Sofia rejected the request of the Russian authorities to extradite a Russian citizen accused of fraud, overturning the lower court’s decision saying he should be extradited to Moscow and detained until he is extradited. Sergey...