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The European Parliament’s co-rapporteurs circulated the first batch of compromise amendments for the EU’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act on Thursday (7 July) which will be the basis for a technical discussion on Monday. The AI Act has received over 3,000...

It’s a special this week: He kept us hanging on like a yoyo, in the end it happened in slo-mo but eventually BoJo had to go, go.

Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday (8 July) while campaigning for a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man armed with an apparently homemade gun opened fired at him from behind.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the raising of the Ukrainian flag on Snake Island in the Black Sea was a sign his country would not be broken, as Putin warned the West that its efforts to defeat him would bring tragedy.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria introducing quotas for Bulgarian music, Belgium reopening its Embassy in Kyiv and sending a new ambassador, and so much more.

Would-be successors to scandal-ridden British Prime Minister Boris Johnson were readying Friday (8 July) for what will be a prolonged battle, the day after an extraordinary exodus of Conservative ministers brought about their leader's downfall.

Due to Russia's attempts to destabilise Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bundestag will vote today on rejoining the EU military mission EUFOR Althea. However, the mission could soon be stripped of its legal basis.

Progress on finding the remains of some 6,000 people still missing after the fall of Albania’s communist regime is still no more tangible due to disagreements between law enforcement institutions, according to the Files Authority, which reported to the Laws...

Dutch gas company Gasunie on Thursday (7 July) said it had contracted 7 billion cubic metres (bcm) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year to be delivered to its new terminal in the north of the Netherlands.

EU Rapporteur for Kosovo Viola von Cramon has warned that Russia may exploit current unrest in the Western Balkans, as protests continue in North Macedonia. North Macedonia has experienced six days of protests as thousands of citizens and the country’s main opposition...

Geoplin, Slovenia’s largest distributor of natural gas, has confirmed that it will be competing for capacities of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Rovigo, near Venice, after not having been awarded a contract for spare capacity at the LNG...

The Slovak Ministry of Agriculture has voiced reservations about the new legal framework for the use of pesticides, which the Commission proposed in June as part of the Nature restoration law. The EU executive proposed the first legally binding EU-level...

Czechia will strive to ensure that, during its presidency, the EU grants Croatia entry into the Schengen Area, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday after meeting with his Croatian counterpart in Prague. Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said...

Polish experts fear a recurrence of infections and further lockdowns after several months of relative calm concerning coronavirus infections. The Polish health ministry issues weekly statements and summaries in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of infections in Poland...

Thousands of workers gathered on Wednesday afternoon in Marquês de Pombal, in Lisbon, and set off towards parliament, in a national demonstration for wage and pension increases in the face of escalating inflation. The national demonstration of the Communist-backed CGTP...

President Vladimir Putin said on 7 July that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to defeat it on the battlefield, while insisting that Moscow was still open to the idea of peace talks.

Europe’s aviation infrastructure is buckling under the strain of the en masse return to flying this summer, resulting in chaos at airports, all-too-frequent tales of lost luggage, missed connections, and stranded passengers waiting for hours to speak with frazzled staff. Across the...

After years of tense relations with Britain, the EU was Thursday (7 July) seeing hope of improved ties following the resignation of Brexit champion Boris Johnson, though wariness lingered.

The Social Democratic Party is increasing its popularity and narrowing the lead of the liberal-conservative National Coalition Party (NCP), according to a new poll commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) published on Thursday. The National Coalition Party, which held...

The Belgian Embassy in Kyiv will reopen next Monday, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo confirmed on Thursday. The Belgian Embassy in Kyiv will reopen next week (11 July), and Ambassador Peter Van De Velde, whom De Croo met before he...