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Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers struggled to keep the country functioning on Wednesday (1 September) after the final withdrawal of US forces, with foreign donors alarmed about an impending humanitarian crisis.

The European Union will need to engage with the Taliban but it will not rush into formally recognising the Islamist militant group as the new rulers of Afghanistan, a senior European Union official said on Wednesday (1 September).

The European Union will provide financial support for vaccine manufacture on the African continent with the specific aim of supplying Africa, as it seeks to fight back against accusations of 'vaccine nationalism'. 

European lawmakers from across the political spectrum have united in criticism against the European Commission’s new flagship Forest Strategy, describing it as vague and superficial while flagging concerns that it goes beyond the remit of EU competences.

It was supposed to be the most important and intriguing German election in 16 years. After all, Angela Merkel, easily Europe’s most influential political figure in the 21st century, is leaving the political stage for good.

Tunisia’s democrats need more support from the EU and European nations as the north African country faces up to months of government by presidential decree, said Ahmed Gaaloul, an Ennahdha party official and a former youth and sports minister.

As children across the European Union are going back to school, ECDC is encouraging countries to “appropriately” balance children's physical and mental health needs while ensuring COVID-19 prevention. 

Certain fluorescent and halogen light bulbs are being banned as of Wednesday (1 September) as new ecodesign and labelling rules come into force across the European Union.

Google said on Wednesday it was appealing against a 500 million euro fine imposed by France's antitrust watchdog in July over a dispute with local media about paying for news content.

The UK food sector has called for a new COVID-19 recovery visa to address workforce shortages, but the government has been non-committal, stressing instead it aims not to rely on labour from abroad.

Google will invest in the expansion of its cloud data centres and renewable energy facilities, though critics continue to accuse it of showing a lack of ambition on innovative green technologies. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Following the Georgian government's decision not to take the €75 million worth second instalment of loan assistance from the EU, Brussels said on Tuesday (31 August) Tbilisi had failed to fulfil the reform conditions attached to the assistance, the latest sign of a cooling relationship with the post-Soviet country's leadership.

China benefits from divisions that prevent the EU from forming a unified front against it. That is why relations with EU members Hungary and Poland, as well as with the Western Balkans and Serbia in particular, are getting stronger, writes Antonia Colibasanu.

From deadly flooding that hit Germany and Belgium in July to the heatwaves and forest fires that set Southern Europe ablaze in August, this year has seen no shortage of climate-related disasters.

Current shortcomings in Europe's emissions trading scheme threaten to pull a green iron curtain between central and eastern Europe and the rest of the EU, but used correctly, the system could boost decarbonisation in the region, argue Claire Godet and Linda Zeilina.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Chancellor Angela Merkel saying she would not enter a coalition with Die Linke, taking aim at social democrat candidate Olaf Scholz, the Polish government wanting to introduce a state of emergency at Belarus border, and so much more.

Slovakia’s progress in the fight against corruption is being called into doubt as the newly appointed prosecutor general, Maroš Žilinka, has made use of an extraordinary measure to dismiss closely watched corruption cases on the day the police chief accused...

A Greek government reshuffle aiming to mark a fresh start following public anger due to wildfires in August has ended in what most media described as a fiasco. Evangelos Apostolakis, a former admiral and defence minister under leftist Syriza government,...

Slovenia’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 16.3% year-on-year in the second quarter on the back of robust government and consumer spending, with annualised output just short of the pre-crisis peak of 2019. Data by the country’s Statistics Office show...

The Romanian government does not plan to cap energy prices, but is looking for ways to compensate consumers amid complaints over price hikes both for electricity and natural gas – which rose by more than 20% compared with last year....