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The Biden administration on Wednesday (12 January) imposed its first sanctions over North Korea's weapons programs following a series of North Korean missile launches, including two since last week.

European Union countries should be able to temporarily remove households from the bloc's planned carbon market for buildings and road transport, according to an early draft of the European Parliament's negotiating position on the policy.

The French EU Council Presidency should focus its work on major EU digital legislation to lead to greater clarity and legal certainty in an increasingly fragmented digital landscape, argues Yann Padova.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Denmark increasing its military presence in the Baltics, Bulgaria being on the verge of dropping its "golden passports", and so much more.

France is to press the European Union to agree sanctions against Mali after its military-dominated leadership shelved a timetable for elections, the French foreign minister said on Wednesday (12 January).

Meeting in the western French seaside town of Brest, EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell underlined that the EU must define concrete steps in its response to Russia’s military build-up on Ukraine’s border. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday evening, Borrell said...

In 2021, the British government deported 435 people to Albania, the highest number out of all nationalities, according to data from the Home Office. The number of deportations via government charter flights tripled during the pandemic and continued into last...

In December 2021, over 56,000 Kosovo citizens applied for a visa in Germany with more than 60,00 applying in Croatia and thousands in Slovenia and other European countries. The number of those applying to leave the country appears to be on the increase....

The Baltic States are talking to NATO allies about increasing military deployments on their soil to deter Russia, Estonia's prime minister told Reuters on Wednesday (13 January), and NATO's chief said any Russian attack on Ukraine would spur a decision.

The Digital Services Act is a major piece of legislation that should result in a safer digital space. However, a recent vote in the European Parliament stopped short of adopting an amendment that would have made freedom of information in Europe free from non-EU private sector digital giants, writes Pierre Louette.

The Austrian Data Protection Authority has decided that the use of Google Analytics violates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Other EU member states could follow suit, as regulators cooperate in a task force in the European Data Protection Board....

The government of Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski is ready to accept the most hardline Bulgarian demands, Nikola Dimitrov, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for EU integration, said at a press conference. Dimitrov also claimed that “many international friends”...

Members of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in the celebration of the so-called ‘Day of RS’ (RS, Republika Srpska, Serb entity) on 9 January in Banja Luka. The BiH Constitutional Court declared the ‘Day of RS’ unconstitutional,...

Serbia’s Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin submitted to the Kremlin transcripts of wiretapped conversations in Belgrade between Russian opposition members, Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has announced. Andrei Pivovarov, the former director of the NGO, Open Russia, was arrested as a result....

Low-volume hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, will be allowed in Slovenia under amendments to the mining act adopted by the government this week. It will pave the way for limited fracking in the only location where it is currently...

About 68% of parents support the introduction of legal restrictions on unhealthy food advertising while children watch television, according to a survey conducted in November. According to the same research on children’s exposure to television advertising of food and beverages...

The Romanian government will discuss new measures to help consumers affected by the increase in energy prices and measures to force energy suppliers to redo wrongly-issued bills. Romania adopted last year a law that caps electricity and natural gas prices...

Alliance, the Hungarian minority party in Slovakia founded by the merger in October of three political parties, all disagree on who to support in Hungary’s elections in April. While SMK (Party of the Hungarian Community) openly supports Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is launching a website to fight disinformation in Hungary, just three months before elections that will determine Orbán’s grip on power - however, experts remain sceptical.

European Commission proposals to bring shipping into the bloc's carbon market contain exclusions for small commercial and military vessels that would leave millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions unregulated, an NGO study showed on Thursday (13 January).