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Indonesian President Joko Widodo offered on Wednesday (29 June) to deliver a message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Russian leader Vladimir Putin to try to boost peace hopes.

Ukrainian activists and politicians leaders have urged the European Parliament to reject plans to label nuclear and gas as ‘green’ investments, saying this would be a “gift to Putin”.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about EU lawmakers calling on Germany to ramp up arms shipments to help Ukraine win the war, three major Finnish companies announcing their exit from the Russian market, and so much more.

Trade unions reached an agreement with business associations on a work programme for the social dialogue 2022-2024 that should include legally binding measures to regulate telework and institute a right to disconnect on a European level.

EU environment ministers on Tuesday (28 June) agreed a "general approach" to new rules addressing global deforestation, with some admitting however that the scope of the regulation was too narrow. Campaigners, for their part, denounced a proposal with "more holes than a Swiss cheese".

North Korean hackers are most likely behind an attack last week that stole as much as $100 million in cryptocurrency from a US company, three digital investigative firms have concluded.

The Greek government will soon make a request to Washington to buy twenty F-35 combat aircraft after the US administration threw support behind a potential F-16 sale to Turkey. Skai TV reported that Greece will request the deployment of twenty...

Trade through Lithuania to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad could return to normal within days, two sources familiar with the matter said, as European officials edge towards a compromise deal with the Baltic state to defuse a row with Moscow.

The war in Ukraine has laid bare EU member states’ Russia ties with little to underscore them more tangibly than diplomatic expulsions accompanied by accusations of espionage. This is particularly true in bloc members with deeper ties to Russia, where...

In today's world, we enjoy many conveniences and small every-day luxuries. How we live our daily lives has an impact on the environment. Our choice of food, modes of transport or the energy sources we use affect our planet's water, air, and biodiversity.

Albania, of which the dairy sector is struggling with rising costs and decreasing livestock heads, has untapped potential in its agricultural production sector, particularly that of tomatoes which could be a source of significant income for farmers, according to a...

Dragan Čović, the president of the biggest Bosnian Croat party, HDZ BiH, will not be its candidate for the country’s tripartite presidency in the October general election, Croatia’s state news agency Hina reported. It said his deputy Borjana Krišto would run...

It is time to turn the page in Serbia-Montenegro relations, the prime ministers of Serbia and Montenegro, Ana Brnabić and Dritan Abazović, said after meeting in Belgrade on Wednesday. The prime ministers advocated an improvement of relations at all levels...

Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to seize most of Ukraine, but his forces are so degraded by combat that they likely can only achieve incremental gains in the near term, the top US intelligence officer said Wednesday (29 June).

The government will craft a roadmap for the implementation of NATO defence spending commitments within six months and plans to reach the alliance’s 2% of GDP target before the current target year of 2030 due to the latest global developments,...

The Romanian government on Wednesday approved the latest normative acts needed to complete documentation for the cohesion funds for the 2021-2027 budgetary period. This means negotiations between Romania and the European Commission on the total amount allocated for regional development can...

The Czech Republic wants to organise expert teams to help Ukraine with the conservation and reconstruction of its cultural heritage, Culture Minister Martin Baxa told his counterparts at a meeting in Lviv on Wednesday. The Russian army is already plundering...

Although the EU and the UK agreed sanctions on Russian ships, they are delaying their execution for fear of rising oil prices. Meanwhile, Putin's war is taking innocent lives, writes Svitlana Romanko, urging G7 leaders to take their responsibility and address their overdependence on Russian oil and gas.

The North Atlantic Alliance showed it could “raise the stakes” if necessary in response to Russia, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has said. Rebelo de Sousa spoke to journalists at the entrance to a Portugal-Kenya Economic Forum in Lisbon. On Russia,...

Inflation, fuelled by rising energy and food prices, rose 1.5 points in June and closed at a year-on-year rate of 10.2%, the highest level since 1985, the state-owned National Statistics Institute revealed Wednesday. Inflation continues to affect the entire Spanish...