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Increasing food production in Europe is a priority in light of the Ukraine war, according to the EU's agri-boss, who detailed how the European Commission encourages member states can do this through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Pictures of dead bodies lying in the streets of Bucha have rightly sparked collective outrage across Europe, suggesting wanton slaughter of the Ukrainian people by the Russian army.

In the next two years, the European Commission estimates a 30% increase in exports of cereals to mitigate the impact on global markets of the reduced Ukrainian yield due to the war.

Russia who is not following any rules of international humanitarian law, rules of war or any principles and rules of international behaviour is threatening to wipe the people of Ukraine, and if they can, they will continue doing that in the rest of Europe writes Roman Rukomeda.

Austria, the Netherlands and Hungary have flagged concerns about EU plans to ensure the bloc’s gas storage is at least 80% full by 1 November, warning they would bear a disproportionate amount of the cost.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about countries expelling Russian diplomats, France launching investigations into war crimes allegedly committed against its citizens in Ukraine, and so much more.

India on Tuesday (5 April) condemned the killings of civilians in Ukraine's Bucha and called for an independent investigation, having earlier declined to explicitly criticise the invasion of Ukraine by its long-time partner Russia.

Coordinated or not, Europe’s pro-EU mainstream political leaders have refrained from congratulating, at least in public, Viktor Orbán for his re-election in Hungary. According to EURACTIV network partners across the bloc, most governments remained silent, Visegrad adopted a more cautious...

Albania’s rising price woes will continue until at least the end of the year, Bank of Albania Governor Genc Sejko told a press conference on Tuesday. Presenting the transition report from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on the...

The European Central Bank’s governing council has decided to extend the deadline for Montenegro’s Central Bank to continue using EUREP, the European bank’s repo facility that is one of the measures to curtail the COVID-19 crisis, Montenegro’s central bank announced. The...

Those in favour of North Macedonia’s largest opposition VMRO-DPMNE far outnumber those who would vote for governing party SDSM if elections were held today, a recent poll shows. VMRO-DPMNE would have 18.2% of the votes while SDSM would tale only...

Malian forces and suspected Russian fighters killed about 300 civilians in late March in the centre of the conflict-torn Sahel nation, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday (5 April).

Genocide survivors in Bosnia and Herzegovina and BiH Foreign Minister Bisera Turković strongly condemned the statements of Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova that appear to imply the 1995 Srebrenica genocide was staged. Zakharova made the controversial statement after US...

Using forest wood to replace Russian fossil fuel imports would not only be disastrous for the environment, it would also not be a credible energy alternative, writes Karl Wagner.

In a tense meeting of EU member state finance ministers on Tuesday (5 April) in Luxemburg, Poland vetoed a compromise proposal for an EU directive that would implement the internationally agreed 15% minimum effective taxation for large multinational companies.

Most citizens in Germany, France, Italy and Spain are in favour of Ukraine joining the EU, while the majority in those countries oppose Serbia’s EU path, a study published Tuesday shows. The new research, conducted by public opinion and data...

Slovenia has effectively expelled 33 Russian diplomats without declaring them persona non grata. In a decision announced Tuesday (5 Apri), Slovenia followed the lead of multiple EU countries that have expelled diplomats in recent days. It did so after summoning...

Romania has finally joined the ranks of other EU and NATO members that expelled Russian diplomats following the invasion of Ukraine by dismissing 10 Russian diplomats from its territory. The Romanian authorities have declared 10 people working at the Russian...

The growth of the Bulgarian economy in 2022 will slow to 2.6%, according to the finance ministry’s spring forecast, which previously predicted 4.8% growth on which the state budget was built. Last year, the growth of the Bulgarian economy was...

Italy announced the expulsion of 30 Russian diplomats on Tuesday, the latest in a long line of EU states to do so. Russian Ambassador to Italy, Sergey Razov, was called to attend a meeting at the foreign ministry with Secretary-General,...