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After Kyiv and Moscow traded blame over the worsening situation in the eastern Donbas region, Ukraine was able to mobilise its Western allies at political level, with several high-level meetings planned this week.

Airlines could check new European Union COVID certificates before allowing onboard passengers going on summer holidays, a senior official said on Tuesday (13 April) as the bloc seeks to restart a travel sector ravaged by the pandemic.

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Austria's Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) is resigning from office for health reasons and his successor is expected to be named later on Tuesday (13 April). EURACTIV Germany reports.

EU lawmakers from the Renew group have submitted a request to the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee to hold off on adopting a position on the UK's adequacy for EU personal data transfers until the EU's data protection watchdog has weighed in on the plans.

After criticism from regional leaders, the Czech government overturned its decision to support local sports clubs with money from the REACT-EU emergency instrument. Instead, a large majority of the funds will go to the healthcare system, EURACTIV Czech Republic reports.

Ukraine accused the Kremlin of ignoring its request for talks between the two countries’ presidents over a build-up of Russian troops near its border, but Moscow said its soldiers were on its own territory, unlike US forces in the region.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Greece reopening its high schools as it has recently started offering free home-testing kits to its population, Croatia's pensioners set to receive COVID-19 relief from the government, and so much more.

Despite the fatigue with the pandemic and the longing for stability and predictability, Europe has entered the age of ‘permacrisis’, in which volatility, uncertainty, and a prolonged sense of emergency have become the new normal, argue Ricardo Borges de Castro, Fabian Zuleeg and Janis A. Emmanouilidis.

Europe needs a massive increase in renewable electricity to meet its 2030 decarbonisation targets, including a ramp up of clean hydrogen production from electrolysers, a senior EU official has said.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias called Monday (12 April) for the pullout of foreign forces from Libya, during a visit to the eastern city of Benghazi.

European Commission spokesman Peter Stano said on Monday the EU would not help Montenegro repay a loan it had taken from a Chinese bank for the construction of a highway. On Monday, Montenegro’s Minister of Capital Investments Mladen Bojanić said...

The Reisu-l-Ulema of the Islamic Community of Serbia, Sead Nasufović, said on Monday that followers of Islam can receive the COVID-19 vaccine during the Ramadan fast. “Not a drop of water may be drunk during fasting, food may not be...

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Monday that an agreement has been reached with pensioners’ representatives regarding COVID-19 support to be paid to approximately 850,000 seniors in late April or early May. It is estimated that about 850,000 pensioners...

Malfunctioning ventilators have caused the deaths of three COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit on the grounds of a Bucharest infectious diseases hospital. Five other patients were moved from the care unit. Both the interior ministry and the prosecutors’...

Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček on Monday announced the establishment of a new government commission that will be tasked with calculating the European Green Deal’s impact on the Czech Republic. The decision to establish a new Green Deal commission, which...

Poland’s economy has recovered remarkably well despite being hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and the country’s unemployment rate is currently the lowest in the EU, according to German television broadcaster ZDF. According to the German broadcaster, the main reason...

Budapest’s green opposition mayor Gergely Karácsony threatened on Monday to cancel the 2023 World Athletics Championships to be held in the capital if the government decides to build a Chinese university campus instead of a planned Student City project. The...

Greek schools reopened on Monday after the government started the mass distribution of free home-testing kits to its citizens. Teachers and pupils must wear masks and get tested at least twice a week. “Our mass distribution of free home testing...

About 800 people working in the gym and catering sectors, as well as people supporting neo-fascist formation Casapound, joined an unauthorised protest Monday in the centre of Rome to urge the government to allow their businesses to reopen. Some demonstrators...