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In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Russia and China being the most active in spreading disinformation in Czechia, French doctors urging their government to openly back a booze-free January, and so much more.

Russia's second missile assault on Kyiv this week injured at least 51 people and damaged homes and a children's hospital, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday (13 December), as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded in Washington for more help for his country.

Bulgaria lacks approximately 16,900 nurses for the health system to function normally, according to a study by the Bulgarian Council for Economic Analyses.

Bulgaria has categorically rejected the request to accept more migrants on its territory in exchange for Austria lifting its veto on Schengen accession, Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov announced on Tuesday while answering questions from citizens on Facebook. News broke out...

Romania recorded a rise in the number of reported cases of violence against women, as well as concerning statistics such as three in four solved rape cases ending in miscarriages of justice in 2022, according to a report published on...

Russia and China are the most active states in spreading disinformation in Czechia, the head of the country’s counterintelligence service, BIS chief Michal Koudelka, said at a conference focused on hybrid threats in Prague on Tuesday. China, which has been...

As new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk spoke out against xenophobia in his policy programme speech, a right-wing lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the corridor of the building, an incident condemned by almost the...

President Joe Biden warned Republicans that they would give Russia a "Christmas gift" if they failed to provide additional military aid to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose meeting with a top US lawmaker concluded without a commitment for more support.

The Albanian government will use ChatGPT to translate thousands of pages of EU legal measures and provisions into shqip (Albanian language) and then integrate them into existing legal structures, following an agreement with the CEO of the parent company, OpenAI,...

Companies in Portugal that introduced the four-day week reported a 13.7% average drop in weekly working hours, according to the results of a pilot project presented by the study’s coordinators on Tuesday. According to the document, 41 companies are experimenting...

Spain’s main opposition party, the Partido Popular, has “derailed” Madrid’s proposal to make Catalan an official EU language while it holds the EU presidency until the end of the year, separatist JxCat leader and former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said...

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) announced about 73 audit auctions for the upcoming two years on Tuesday to double-down scrutiny on the EU’s budget following increased spending. The EU Court of Auditors will strongly focus on the €800 billion...

The EU should cede control over issues “closer to the lives of citizens” and leave the bigger questions to be dealt with collectively, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday ahead of Thursday’s European Council. Meloni argued that the EU...

Israel faced growing diplomatic isolation in its war against Hamas as the UN demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and US President Joe Biden told the longtime ally its "indiscriminate" bombing of civilians was hurting international support.

The government should openly support an alcohol-free January campaign, better known as ‘Dry January’, 48 addiction specialists wrote in a letter to Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau, published by Le Parisien and Franceinfo on Tuesday. “It’s a positive operation that involves...

Sweden’s government wants to strike a balance between ensuring access to medicines for all patients and creating the best conditions for the research and development of new drugs, according to statements made during a recent public hearing.

A week ago at COP28 the United States Federal Government, the nation’s largest energy user, signed the UN 24/7 carbon free energy (CFE) compact committing to match every hour of power consumption with carbon-free energy on every grid globally.

The European Commission has unveiled a new law designed to force interest and lobbying groups working for non-EU actors to register on a transparency register as part of its plans to protect against malign influence in EU politics.

Governments and state-owned enterprises in Serbia will have to consider environmental matters when purchasing goods, services and works from 1 January, meaning that purchasers in certain categories will no longer be able to use price as the sole criterion for awarding contracts.

Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government wants to strip Smer investigators of their legal protection, but a legal expert warns that the EU Commission could launch an infringement procedure. The proposed changes include ensuring that police officers cannot obtain protected whistleblower...