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If the Ukraine tensions continue, Russia risks severely damaging its own economy and energy future. But over the next few months, Europe’s energy scene could become very uncomfortable writes, Robin M. Mills.

European diplomacy over Ukraine puts in another gear this week with the French and Russian leaders to meet in Moscow, Germany’s Chancellor paying a visit to Washington and other European diplomats flocking to Kyiv.

Credit Suisse will face charges in a Swiss court on Monday (7 February) of allowing an alleged Bulgarian cocaine trafficking gang to launder millions of euros, some of it stuffed into suitcases.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Irish government promising to tackle the rising cost of living, the Slovenian opposition defeating a bill that could have barred Huawei from the market, and so much more.

The European Union is seeking more natural gas from Azerbaijan, an EU official said, as Europe grapples with high energy bills and tight deliveries from Russia, which has been at loggerheads with the West over Ukraine.

The EU foreign service is pulling out 1,000 local people from Afghanistan, but what would it do for local staff at missions in Ukraine or Mali?

Poland's president Andzej Duda will be in Brussels in an apparent attempt to end the EU-Warsaw rule-of-law row. The commission will meanwhile put ramping up European microchip production on the agenda.

French president Emmanuel Macron was hoping "to build a historic solution" on European security when he meets Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, Macron told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper on Sunday. "I believe President Putin is available for this," said Macron, who noted that he'd previously been in "deep dialogue" with the Russian leader.

Even without shaking up the ranks of the German coalition, the EU's green taxonomy may be the biggest controversy of Ursula von der Leyen's presidency of the Commission.

US and EU tensions with a Russian-Chinese bloc meant "the pressure on Switzerland to cultivate deeper relations with Europe will grow," Swiss president Ignazio Cassis told the SonntagsZeitung newspaper Sunday, adding that, "the EU is closest to us economically, ideologically and socially". He also proposed resuming EU-Swiss talks on the "health, research, media, or culture" sectors after negotiations collapsed last year.

Authorities in France and Luxembourg have written to Lebanon seeking information on personal bank accounts and assets of its central bank chief Riad Salameh amid money-laundering allegations, Reuters reported Saturday, citing Lebanese sources. Switzerland has charged the bank chief with aggravated money laundering and Luxembourg also has a criminal case against him, according to Reuters. The action comes after an economic collapse in Lebanon in 2019.

Former Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for abuse of office by Albania’s Special Court against Corruption and Organised Crime. Tahiri facilitated drug trafficking for a criminal group through his inaction and received...

Belgium’s constitutional model cannot be copied in other countries but some of its elements may be interesting to consider in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Koen Adam, Belgium’s Ambassador to Serbia, told the Beta agency in an interview. Asked about the German-speaking community...

The assembly on 4 February voted against the government of Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić in a no-confidence motion, with only 11 of 81 MPs favouring it. Krivokapić’s partners from the pro-Serbian Democratic Front and Socialist People’s Party walked out during...

The withdrawal from state institutions such as the top state judicial institution, as announced by the authorities in the Republika Srpska (RS, Serb entity) goes against the Dayton Peace Agreement which undermines the fight against organised and other forms of...

"Soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps arrived in Wiesbaden [Germany] today ... These are the first of 2,000 soldiers to arrive in Europe following the Pentagon's announcement of additional forces moving from the United States to Europe in support of our Nato allies," the Pentagon said Friday. A plane carrying US soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, also landed in Poland on Sunday, Reuters reports.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on 5 February in Beijing to discuss bilateral cooperation. Xi hailed the “iron-clad friendship” and the high-level mutual political trust between China and Serbia, saying bilateral ties have endured...

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and members of the Nordic country's indigenous Sami community on Saturday (5 February) protested against a possible iron ore mine in northern Sweden.

The opposition has defeated a government bill on electronic communications that would bar high-risk vendors from the market, a provision the opposition said was directed against China’s Huawei. While not mentioning the vendor specifically, the bill would ban providers from...