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As leaders announced their climate pledges at COP26, side-rooms saw the port of Antwerp sign a MoU with Chile and German initiative H2Global try to charm the Emirates, who aim for 25% of hydrogen global market share by 2050.

'Change continues’, a new centrist political party in Bulgaria, is seen as the king-maker in a future coalition after the 14 November parliamentary elections. In an exclusive interview with EURACTIV,  its co-leader Kiril Petkov gave a preview of his party policies.

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 250 million on Monday (8 November) as some countries in eastern Europe experience record outbreaks, even as the Delta variant surge eases and many countries resume trade and tourism.

The United States reopens its land and air borders Monday (8 November) to foreign visitors fully vaccinated against Covid-19, ending 20 months of restrictions on travel from around the globe that separated families, hobbled tourism and strained diplomatic ties.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi escaped unhurt from an “assassination attempt” in which an explosives-packed drone hit his Baghdad residence early Sunday (7 November), a new escalation in the country’s post-election turmoil. US President Joe Biden condemned the “terrorist attack”...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Austria introducing tough restrictions for the unvaccinated, Visegrad no longer being a "fatal alliance", and so much more.

French far-right TV pundit Eric Zemmour would likely make it into the second round in presidential elections next year with 17 percent of the vote in the first round, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll Sunday. Incumbent Emmanuel Macron would get 23 percent and far-right contender Marine Le Pen would come third on 16 percent, the survey showed. Zemmour said Sunday he was "ready" to soon officially declare his bid.

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Saturday (6 November) in Warsaw and dozens of other Polish cities to denounce a nine-month-old abortion law blamed for claiming the life of a pregnant mother, organisers said.

Mounting Serbian separatism in Bosnia risks aggravating other old conflicts in the Western Balkans, an international peace envoy has warned.

Visegrad cooperation is still important but not as crucial as political leaders often claim, a new study based on a survey among Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak foreign and EU policy experts suggests. According to Pavlína Janebová, the Research Director...

Belgium has urged people to start working from home once again from Monday due to surging Covid infections, as Europe grapples with the pandemic's fourth wave.

The vaccination rate in Albania dropped 40% in October compared to September and August, as the country struggles to reach even 50% coverage with anti-COVID-19 vaccines. In September, the government-mandated vaccinations for students over 18, healthcare workers, teachers, police, and state administration....

Montenegro announced it will give €100,000 to a UN fund set up to help people in Afghanistan who are suffering after the Taliban takeover. In a press release last week, the government said, “the people of Afghanistan deserve to live in a...

North Macedonia’s opposition has announced the creation of a parliamentary majority comprising five parties following the informal resignation of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, Exit.al reports. Opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski’s nationalist, right-wing VMRO DPMNE party, their Albanian coalition partners Alliance for...

Hungary has a vested interest in the peace, stability and security of the Balkans, and Serbs living in BiH’s Republika Srpska play a key role in that process, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after meeting with Milorad Dodik, Serb...

Following reports that Serbia was not invited to the Summit for Democracy, a virtual conference that US President Joe Biden will host, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Sunday that “everyone has a right to evaluate other democracies as they see...

A concession agreement has been signed to develop and commercially use the Zagreb Deep Sea container terminal in the northern Adriatic Port of Rijeka, estimated at 20 billion kuna (€2.7 billion), with the concession fee fixed at €2 million annually...

Gas flows via the 'Yamal-Europe' pipeline from Russia, via Poland, to Germany stopped again on Saturday, following a previous, temporary, stoppage last weekend, German pipeline operator Gascade said. The previous stoppage caused prices to jump 23 percent on gas futures markets. Russia denies accusations it is using gas cuts to force Germany to let it run its new pipeline, Nord Stream 2, as a monopoly in violation of EU laws.

According to an investigation conducted by Nova TV, a Bulgarian MP candidate from the nationalist NFSB party has been involved in a scheme issuing vaccination certificates to unvaccinated people. MP candidates have immunity from prosecution, but the chief prosecutor is expected to ask...

The EU has warned Britain it could trigger a trade war if it suspended a Brexit-customs deal on Northern Ireland. "There is a danger" the EU would suspend the whole Brexit withdrawal deal if the UK went ahead, Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney said Sunday, echoing warnings by EU commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič Friday. Masked men burned a bus in Northern Ireland Sunday amid a recent flare-up in sectarian tension.