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European Union countries should immediately start refilling their gas stores to prepare for next winter and provide a buffer against supply shocks, EU country leaders will say at a summit next week.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about German households potentially going cold without Russian gas, France offering asylum to the Russian journalist who protested on TV, and so much more.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech counterpart Petr Fiala and Slovenia’s Janez Jansa, who travelled by train to war-torn Kyiv, were the first foreign leaders to visit Ukraine’s capital since Russia‘s invasion last month. As EURACTIV.cz learnt, the three EU...

The US Senate on Tuesday (15 March) unanimously passed a resolution condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, a rare show of unity in the deeply divided Congress.

Energy prices are increasing everywhere, said EU Chief Diplomat Josep Borrell during his visit to Europe’s second-poorest country Albania, adding that instead of paying €50 mWh for his electricity, he is now paying €500. The comment came amid his visit...

Bosnia and Herzegovina has been an aberration and deviation for 25 years because of “European commissars”, Croatian President Zoran Milanović said while speaking to reporters during a visit to the Zemunik airbase, inland from the coastal city of Zadar, on...

The chances of Bulgaria halting the delivery of natural gas through the Balkan Stream Pipeline are slim, the general manager of the state-owned natural gas provider Srbijaga, Dušan Bajatović, said on Tuesday. According to Bajatović, this is because the fuel was...

Slovenia is prepared to receive Ukrainians needing medical treatment and supports the Polish proposal to transfer patients to EU member states other than those bordering Ukraine, Health Minister Janez Poklukar said Tuesday. “Slovenia is ready to receive patients in urgent...

The country’s anti-corruption office known as USKOK opened an investigation into Labour Minister Josip Aladrović and Županja Mayor Damir Juzbašić on charges of favouritism, USKOK reported on Tuesday. Aladrović is suspected of favouritism in hiring two people, one in 2018...

Uzina Mecanica Bucuresti (UMB) has partnered with General Dynamics European Land Systems and Mowag to assemble Piranha V infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) at its Bucharest plant. The Romanian army signed a contract on Tuesday to buy 227 Piranha V vehicles...

Access to affordable clean electricity and a global level playing field on carbon pricing are crucial for the ability of energy-intensive industry in Europe to invest in decarbonisation. When EU Environment Ministers meet to discuss the revision of the EU ETS this week, they should look for a framework that puts Europe on track for carbon neutrality.

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin is set to visit Slovakia, marking it the first-ever US defence ministry official visit. The US Department of Defence stated that Austin would come to Slovakia to assure American commitment to NATO’s eastern flank....

Seven ceramics companies have stopped work due to rising energy prices, affecting about 1,000 workers, the president of the association that represents them told EURACTIV’s partner Lusa on Tuesday. According to the President of the Portuguese Association of Ceramic and...

The economic cost of Russia's assault on Ukraine was fully exposed on Wednesday (16 March) as Vladimir Putin's sanctions-ravaged government teetered on the brink of its first international debt default since the Bolshevik revolution.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will start a trip to eight EU countries on Wednesday in Bratislava to build a broad consensus on the need to reform energy markets and reduce Europe’s dependency on Russian gas. Sánchez will meet with eight...

Spain will join the initiative to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to hold him accountable for the “war crimes” committed by Russian forces during the Ukraine invasion, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported....

Ukrainian refugees arriving in Denmark could cost DKK 2.2 billion (€268 million) this year and more in 2023, while the amount will fall to DKK 700 million (€94 million) in 2024, according to a Danish estimate. These figures were presented...

 The warm reception offered by universities to Ukrainian refugees, including the allocation of 2,000 study spots, is causing bitterness among non-Ukrainian refugee communities who were not treated the same way when they reached the country. At the request of the...

The EU’s sanctions against Russia are working, but they are “not enough”, Larysa Gerasko, Ukraine’s ambassador to Ireland, told lawmakers on Tuesday. Speaking before a parliamentary committee on EU affairs, Gerasko said that further action was urgently needed to aid...

The government appears to have ruled out shale gas exploration, just days after hinting that it could be back on the agenda. Last week, following pressure from Conservative lawmakers to scrap the 2019 moratorium on fracking in order to allow...