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The French embassy was re-established in Kyiv this weekend after security conditions were deemed “acceptable” in the Ukrainian capital. The French embassy returned to Kyiv on Friday (15 April), while it continues to advise French nationals against travelling to Ukraine...

Social Democrats in the Bundestag have come to the defence of party elder Manuela Schwesig, the regional leader of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and, until recently, a leading advocate for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline after she was asked to step down. Schwesig is the...

Robert Golob, a former energy executive who did not have a party until January, has overtaken Prime Minister Janez Janša in the polls with just a week to go before election day. Golob’s Freedom Movement, a small and largely dormant...

Poland will receive €59 million in advance from the REACT-EU programme to support Ukraine refugees, Polish RMF FM radio reported, citing Brussels sources. The money will be ready for immediate use to provide the Ukrainians who fled the war and found themselves in...

The Russian embassy in Cyprus has rejected as unfounded press reports suggesting that Moscow was mulling establishing a consulate in the territories occupied by Turkey in the north of the island. “We would like to emphasise that the recent rumours,...

In an interview with Kronen Zeitung about his recent visit to Moscow, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Russian President Vladimir Putin was in “top condition”, and he did not notice any signs of psychological illness. Despite much speculation that Putin could be suffering from some mental or...

The Czech deputy ambassador to Moscow was asked by Russian authorities to cooperate with secret services before being expelled from the country, while another Czech diplomat was also approached, but both refused to cooperate. Moscow expelled deputy Czech ambassador Tomáš...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally submitted a completed questionnaire on EU membership to the bloc's envoy in Kyiv on Monday (18 April) and said he believed this step would lead to his country gaining candidate status 'within weeks'.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accused Ukraine and an unidentified EU country of being behind a series of hoax bomb threats against Air Serbia planes.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen traded barbs Monday (18 April) as they returned to campaigning for the French presidency ahead of a prime-time debate that is likely to prove decisive ahead of Sunday's second-round run-off.

Prospects of a swift return to civilian rule in Chad seem to be fading nearly a year after the son of the country's veteran leader took the helm after his father died fighting rebels.

Oil edged lower on Monday (18 April) as worries over slowing demand in China balanced support from concern over tight global supply and the deepening Ukraine crisis.

Ukraine and Russia have failed to agree on humanitarian convoys for the evacuation of civilians from war-affected areas for the second day, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Monday (18 April).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Serbs rallying against Russia's exclusion from the UN Human Rights Council, Austria saying it will prosecute Russian war crimes, and so much more.

Prices of goods and services for personal consumption, measured by the consumer prices index, were on average 7.3% higher this March than the previous year, the Croatian statistical office (DZS) said. This is the highest inflation rate since the summer...

The Director of Albania’s controversial Media and Information Agency (MIA), Endri Fuga, claimed that the institution is based on the German model, but EURACTIV Germany confirmed this is not true. MIA was established by the first decision of Prime Minister...

There is information that the Russian aggressors are trying to hide the traces of their crimes in Mariupil and are burning many dead civilians with that purpose, writes Roman Rukomeda.

EU and US Embassies in Pristina have called on the Kosovo government to refrain from speculating on the origin of a firearm attack that targeted their police on the border with Serbia. Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla spoke of an assault...

Ukrainian authorities condemned Russian artillery attacks on cities in the northeast and the continuing siege of the southern port city of Mariupol, of which Moscow said it had taken almost full control, following almost two months of bloody fighting.

Germany has suspended the funding of infrastructure projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb entity Republika Srpska because its political leaders are obstructing the work of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s central authorities and bringing its stability into question, the foreign ministry said....