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After beginning to take steps towards decreasing tobacco use in the EU as part of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the Commission registered a new European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) on the theme on Wednesday (24 August).

European summer crops have been severely affected by drought in recent months with repercussions on yields, according to the latest forecast from the crop monitoring service (MARS) of the European Commission's research centre.

Cold winters helped Moscow defeat Napoleon and Hitler. President Vladimir Putin is now betting that sky-rocketing energy prices and possible shortages this winter will persuade Europe to strong arm Ukraine into a truce -- on Russia's terms.

Ukraine was "reborn" when Russia invaded six months ago, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday (24 August), marking 31 years of his country's independence from the Moscow-controlled Soviet Union with a vow to drive Russian forces out completely.

French President Emmanuel Macron is flying to Algeria on Thursday (25 August) in a bid to smooth out rocky relations with France's former province. The visit is also seen as an opportunity to secure additional gas supplies as prices reach new all-time highs.

Prague seeks to advance the discussion on the Data Act proposal with a compromise on the part related to the possibility of public bodies requesting access to privately held data.

In just two weeks’ time, the European Parliament will vote on the final text of its report on the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED III); an ambitious document that will help set the EU towards 40-45% renewable energy by 2030....

Another dramatic spike in natural gas prices appears to have ended any hopes that Europe's inflation battle is set to ease, with financial markets now bracing for higher prices and a deeper economic downturn.

The EU's Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has recommended splitting up Germany’s single electricity bidding zone in a move that prompted concern in the country's south, where prices are kept artificially low.

The US statements that Crimea is Ukraine and that American weapons donated to Ukraine can be used to attack this territory became the final argument that war has come to Crimea as well, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Kenyans forced off their land by British settlers during colonial rule are taking their case against the UK to the European Court of Human Rights, their supporters said on Tuesday (23 August).

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Albanian health services facing cuts as many are looking to private providers, opposition parties blocking gas-saving laws in the Austrian parliament, and so much more.

Russia's economy has avoided the meltdown many predicted after Moscow sent its forces into Ukraine six months ago, with higher prices for its oil exports cushioning the impact of Western sanctions, but hardships are emerging for some Russians.

Ukraine has the largest gas reserves in Europe after Norway and is ready to play its part in the continent’s energy security by providing electricity derived from gas, wind power and hi-tech modular nuclear reactors, writes Maxim Timchenko.

Spanish slaughterhouses will have to install video surveillance to ensure animals are not mistreated before being killed, the government announced Tuesday (23 August), claiming a first in the EU.

At a Tuesday government briefing, Gergely Gulyás, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, denied political motivations behind the sacking of the heads of the National Meteorological Service (OMSZ). The chiefs of the OMSZ were fired on Monday after the agency...

The US military said it carried out air strikes on Tuesday (23 August) in Syria's Deir al-Zor against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

Serbia’s minister of internal affairs, Aleksandar Vulin's recent visit to Russia caused enormous damage to Serbia, and its existential interests writes Orhan Dragaš.  

Diplomatic relations between Algeria and France went from cool to icy last year over controversial Élysée comments, tensions over visa facilitation, and unresolved disputes relating to shared wartime history. At a time when some of Paris’ European allies, scrambling to...

The United States will announce $3 billion in fresh military aid to Kyiv on Wednesday (24 August) as Ukraine marks its Independence Day as well as the six-month anniversary of the Russian invasion.