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All the hottest topics in the EU’s agricultural policy are increasingly being preliminarily discussed by the European Commission and the EU Council of ministers, making the legislative process more of a couple (or CAPple) issue.

As Europe's south is burning and the continent is already bracing for what is likely to be a long and hard winter, I decided to start the summer period on a lighter note. Today I played with words, inspired by Billy Joel’s monster hit “We didn’t start the fire”, which he wrote back in 1989.

The European Central Bank raised its interest rates for the first time since 2011 on Thursday and unveiled a new bond-buying programme to keep borrowing costs in check for the euro zone's most indebted countries.

In Nova Kakhovka, a city in southern Ukraine occupied by Russian troops five months ago on the first day of its invasion, the signs of creeping annexation by Russia are mounting and some residents fear a return to Soviet times.

An EU proposal calling on member states to cut their gas use by 15% to prepare for potential cuts to supplies of Russian gas is facing resistance from governments, casting doubt on whether they will approve the emergency plan next week.

The Biden administration is investigating Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei over concerns that US cell towers fitted with its gear could capture sensitive information from military bases and missile silos that the company could then transmit to China.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó travelled to Moscow on Thursday (21 July) to discuss purchasing more Russian gas on behalf of his country, the ruling Fidesz party said.

Mario Draghi, a prominent figure on the international stage as the former head of the European Central Bank, handed in his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy on 21 July after his broad national coalition fell apart.

Portugal is "totally against" an EU proposal for member states to cut gas usage until March because it would hamper electricity production through gas-fired plants when the country faces an extreme drought, Energy Secretary Joao Galamba said on 21 July.

The European Commission has released its guidelines on how to allocate fossil gas in times of shortage, giving significant leeway to EU countries - leaving German industry carefully optimistic.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the prime minister of Saxony calling for peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, Macron announcing a huge reforestation plan following the fires, and so much more.

President Joe Biden, thwarted by lawmakers and the Supreme Court, sought Wednesday (20 July) to revive his ambitions to tackle climate change as heat waves batter the United States and Europe.

Albania does not meet the minimum standards required to eliminate human trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so, according to the US State Department’s latest report. Published each year, the report closely examines countries’ efforts to combat human trafficking and categorises...

Slovenia will hold the first presidential election round on 23 October to pick its fifth president, with a potential run-off between two candidates likely being set for 13 November. The first presidential election round will be held on 23 October,...

The World Health Organization will reconvene its expert monkeypox committee on Thursday (21 July) to decide whether the outbreak now constitutes a global health emergency -- the highest alarm it can sound.

Croatia’s air traffic controllers called off their strike meant to start on Thursday, saying they would resume negotiations with management, the Jutarnji List reported. Read more. The strike would have reduced the number of flights over Croatian airspace to only 40% of...

Forest fires consumed 57,940 hectares this year, more than twice as much as in the whole of 2021, according to provisional data from the Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF). Provisional data collected by ICNF to date show that...

Centre-right parties and the Five Star Movement, coalition partners in Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s multi-party government, did not vote in the confidence vote tabled by Draghi on Wednesday. While Draghi is expected to soon file his resignation with President Mattarella,...

The role of prosecutor general and data relating to it could soon be able to be investigated by a supreme judge if there is sufficient evidence they have committed a crime, according to the justice ministry’s recent proposal. The prosecutor...

Lithuania’s and Romania’s legislatives voted to ratify the NATO accession for Sweden and Finland on Wednesday. Lithuanian parliament on Wednesday adopted the law ratifying the Protocol on Finland’s accession with 111 votes in favour and the one for Sweden with...