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Italy plans to set aside at least €15 billion in its 2023 budget to soften the impact of sky-high energy costs on firms and families, two government sources told Reuters on Thursday (3 November).

Strict regulation does not have to stifle the emerging market for green hydrogen — just the opposite, write Benjamin Görlach and Michael Jakob. They argue that a unified system for monitoring, certifying and tracking green hydrogen production and trade is key to all this.

Last month, an executive order detailed the EU-US Privacy Shield 2.0, a new legal framework for transatlantic data flows made necessary by the Schrems II ruling. We caught up with Max Schrems, the privacy activist who gave the name to...

The European Commission is preparing to unveil new legislation which for the first time envisages measures to limit packaging size as well as the amount of “empty space” in boxes shipped around Europe by online retailers.

Israel Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday (3 November) congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on his election win as final results confirmed the former premier's triumphant comeback at the head of a solidly right-wing alliance.

Europe’s move away from gas towards heat pumps, which suffers from various bottlenecks, is subject to another scarcity that may impact production volumes: the global chip shortage.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Polish opposition urging cooperation with the European Commission to gain their Recovery Fund, France’s plans to deploy fighter aircraft in Romania, and so much more.

A senior UN official said on Thursday (3 November) that the global body was prioritising efforts to export stranded Russian fertilisers from European ports and hopes to make advances before a deadline for renewing the Black Sea grains deal this...

While stabilising energy prices and a mild early autumn have brought a welcome respite for Europeans, a new survey suggests that the crisis the continent is bracing for this winter is already here. One in four people say they are...

Just over a quarter of a million influenza vaccines have arrived in Albania, along with the first cases, and they will be doled out to the most vulnerable, along with COVID-19 boosters. Up to 650,000 people die from influenza every...

A squadron of Rafale fighters will be sent to perform air policing missions in the Romanian airspace, French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu said during a meeting with Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca. The two officials discussed the concrete elements of...

There is irrefutable evidence that lung cancer screening reduces mortality by one quarter in high risk individuals and is cost-effective. The revised EU Council cancer screening recommendations offer a unique opportunity to curb mortality from the leading cause of cancer deaths. The time to act is now.

Last weeks parliamentary IT shutdown, which led to suspicions of a cyberattack, was revealed to be an incident caused by an incorrectly plugged cable, the National Security Authority discovered. The incident was caused by the coalition National Council member Róbert...

A draft resolution calling on the government to fulfil the conditions imposed by the European Commission to get money from the bloc’s COVID recovery fund was tabled by representatives of the opposition in Poland’s parliament on Thursday. Representatives of the...

The political agreement between the EU and the 79-member African, Caribbean and Pacific community is at growing risk of collapse and remains unratified, eighteen months after been concluded by EU and ACP negotiators.

A Russian-installed official in southern Ukraine said Moscow will likely pull its troops from the west bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson and urged civilians to leave, possibly signalling a retreat that would be a setback to Russia's war.

A Chinese manufacturer, Aviation Lithium Battery Technology, wants the battery factory for electric vehicles in Sines to start operating by 2025, a company representative said on Thursday. The company’s executive director said that operations at the future unit will start...

A total of 27,027 people were registered as unemployed in October, a national record, while 103,499 new employments were registered, data from the Ministry of Employment published on Thursday revealed. Spain currently has a total of 2,914,892 unemployed people. The...

A proposal for proactive measures against the expected rise in petrol prices was unveiled by the Association of Automobile Industry in Finland, an organisation of the country’s car importers and car industry. The organisation calculates that petrol prices may increase...

The Belgian State and the Federal Nuclear Control Agency (FANC) refuted in court all accusations of having started the dismantling phase of nuclear reactor Doel 3. Lawyers of the Belgian State and the FANC denied the accusations before a judge...