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Meaningful investigations into January's unrest and genuine follow up on announced reforms will be crucial for Kazakhstan, EU representatives, and academics agreed at a recent EURACTIV event, though scholars remain sceptical about the authorities' resolve.

A set of sweeping new sanctions against Russia, including banning imports of coal, was proposed by the European Commission on Tuesday (5 April) in a first attempt at curbing Moscow’s energy exports. The proposal will be considered by EU member...

Following the summit trilogy that put Brussels in the spotlight last week, a key question emerges: why isn’t the European import of Russian rough diamonds hit by any of the trade sanctions adopted by the EU since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, asks Larisa Stanciu.

Facebook owner Meta Platforms briefly restricted hashtags related to civilian deaths in northern Ukraine, where bodies of people shot at close range were found in a town seized back from Russian forces, a company spokesman confirmed on Monday.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can have a positive impact globally but its true success depends on making its design, development and deployment inclusive.

Europe can play a special role in setting standards that have a global impact and prevent batteries from being discarded prematurely, writes Claudius Jehle.

The policy of pragmatic coexistence with autocratic Russia is now recycled in the hands of Russia’s ‘Trojan horses’ in the EU and Vučić’s Serbia, writes Radan Kanev.

Ukrainian and Russian students in France face financial woes and find it increasingly difficult to renew their stay as the war in Ukraine impacts them despite them being several thousand kilometres away.

Russia will respond proportionately to the expulsion of its diplomats from a number of Western countries, Russian ex-president and deputy head of security council Dmitry Medvedev said late on Monday (4 April). “Everyone knows the answer: it will be symmetrical...

Emboldened by a fourth consecutive landslide election victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is expected to dig in against energy sanctions on Russia and toughen his stance in talks with Brussels to unlock frozen EU funds.

US President Joe Biden called for the prosecution of Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes over the discovery in Bucha of mass graves and bodies of bound civilians shot at close range, but various challenges stand in the way.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about France calling for more sanctions against Russia, the Spanish police seizing the luxury yacht of one of Putin's friends in Mallorca, and so much more.

The world is on track to overshoot 1.5C warming. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground, changing lifestyles and removing CO2 from the air are needed to fix the climate, reports Climate Home News.

Sources from the Greek foreign ministry denied rumours in Helsinki that suggest Athens blocks Finland’s potential accession to NATO, EURACTIV Greece reported. Read More. Several sources categorically denied that Athens aims to prevent it – when and if – there...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, long an advocate of Western rapprochement with Russia, expressed regret for his earlier stance, saying his years of support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline had been a clear mistake.

An increasing number of EU leaders have asked Brussels to push forward a fifth package of sanctions against Moscow following the atrocities and “unbearable scenes”, as French President Emmanuel Macron described, of the destroyed Ukrainian town of Bucha. Several sources...

The retreating Russian army left behind many of the dead bodies of its soldiers, preferring to use the space in their trucks for looted electronic appliances, carpets and clothing from Ukrainian houses and apartments, writes Roman Rukomeda.

The security of the whole of Europe is at play on the Ukrainian territory, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Romania’s parliament Monday evening, calling on the West to unite against Russian aggressors to prevent a ”genocide in Europe.” Ukraine is not...

Croatia joined NATO only because of the US’ help and protection, President Zoran Milanović said at the opening of a Croatian-US forum underway in Zagreb on Monday and Tuesday. The Croatian president thanked the US for being the “only country...

District heating networks are set to receive a boost under draft EU legislation requiring all municipalities above 50,000 inhabitants to map out heating and cooling decarbonisation roadmaps.