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Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has entered the third week with no end or victory in sight. No matter how many advances he makes on the ground - at the price of committing massive atrocities -  this is a war he cannot win and should not have started in the first place.

Germany and Hungary are the most vocal opponents of an EU import ban on Russian energy, which is staunchly supported by Poland, while France and others sit on the fence.

The European Commission stood firm in its resolve to forge ahead with the EU’s sustainable food goals in the first expert meeting on food security this week, despite growing fears around food shortages caused by the war in Ukraine.

A group of progressive MEPs are preparing to question the European Commission on why Russia’s largest technology company has been excluded from the sanctions list so far, while Baltic states are planning to raise the point in the Council discussions....

Sweden will invest heavily in defence in a historic move that will bring military spending in line with NATO's goal of 2% of the GDP, according to an announcement by the government on Thursday (10 March).

The EU needs to take additional steps to ensure people with disabilities have greater access to jobs and rights across the bloc, Sophie Cluzel, the French Secretary of State in charge of people with disabilities, told her European counterparts in Paris on Wednesday (9 March).  EURACTIV France reports.

A new special committee to oversee lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and make recommendations for the future has been greenlighted by the European Parliament on Thursday (10 March).

This week, our Beyond the Byline podcast focuses on informal summit of the EU leaders this Thursday in Versailles.

France's recovery plan, dubbed 'France Relance', is challenging to implement due to being over-complicated, difficult to monitor, and involving too many actors that are not immediately identifiable, according to Pierre Moscovici, the French court of auditors president.EURACTIV France reports.

The EU is unlikely to go hungry as a consequence of the war in Ukraine, but it could have a devastating impact on areas of Africa and the Middle East, according to farming boss Pekka Pesonen, who called on an 'enhanced' Green Deal package to maintain both quality and quantity in the European food supply.

Transforming aviation into a lean and green, climate-neutral mode of transport by 2050 is the ultimate goal for the aviation sector. This is a serious and pressing challenge at a time when the aviation industry is only starting to recover from unprecedented damaged caused by the Covid pandemic.

Russia announced it would no longer participate in the Council of Europe, days after the pan-European human rights body suspended Moscow's rights of representation following the invasion of Ukraine.

The European Parliament has approved an own-initiative report suggesting that cohesion policy funds could be one of the ways to reduce health inequalities, which remain huge across the EU. 

Reforming an "absurd" European market still dependent on the price of fossil fuels is one of France's medium-term projects to achieve energy independence, as explained by Bruno Le Maire, France's minister of economy.

As EU leaders gather in Versailles today and tomorrow, the question on how to save the European economy from an outside shock is in the back of everybody’s mind. Luckily, the EU just recently did quite exactly this.

Russia has moved to throttle independent media after its invasion of Ukraine, allowing state television to dominate the airwaves with broadcasting that relentlessly promotes Russian successes and carefully toes the Kremlin line.

The United States on Wednesday (9 March) denied renewed Russian accusations that Washington was operating biowarfare labs in Ukraine, calling the claims "laughable" and suggesting Moscow may be laying the groundwork to use a chemical or biological weapon.

European Union leaders will tackle ways to wean themselves off Russian fossil fuels on Thursday (10 March) and debate how quickly to ditch their key supplier, with countries split over whether to sanction oil and gas imports as Moscow wages war in Ukraine.

US Vice President Kamala Harris will meet Polish leaders in Warsaw on Thursday (10 March) amid disagreements with the eastern European country over how to arm Ukraine with warplanes to fight Russia's invasion.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Romanians queuing up at petrol stations, Russia sanctions possibly leading to a huge recession in Germany, and so much more.