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The EU commissioner for international partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, has become the fourth commissioner to leave her post and focus on national politics as she announced she would run for president of Finland on behalf of her Finnish Social Democratic Party (SDP), despite polls showing little chance of victory.

Following the publication of the new European Cancer Manifesto, EU lawmakers and stakeholders have driven home the the importance of improving prevention and screening policies across Europe. 

Despite EU funding, the digitalisation of healthcare in the Czech Republic is delayed, and critical components are still missing resulting in local doctors not being able to obtain information about patients in urgent situations, the National Audit Office has warned. 

After a ruling by Germany's top court barred €60 billion from the government's climate action fund, politicians are frantically searching for ways to close the gaping hole in the budget, with the Social Democrats questioning the constitutional debt limit.

Hungary's ruling party unveiled billboards vilifying European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen on Monday (20 November), the first time it has made her a personal target in a campaign similar to one against her predecessor that angered Brussels.

We must see the amnesty law as a unique opportunity to counter the rejection that Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont incites in public opinion, writes Juan Fernando López Aguilar.

Germany is providing fresh money to Africa as part of advancing the continent’s green energy transition, building on a more consistent engagement strategy of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government.

The dispute is growing over transferable vouchers for developers of novel antimicrobial products, proposed by the European Commission in the EU pharma package, but Prague is particularly concerned about the potential impact on national health systems.

The Netherlands is taking part in a pilot project for the online publication of drug information, together with three other EU countries. Coordinated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the programme has just released the electronic product information for the first seven medicines out of 25.

Fake news about vaccines, mistrust, and refusal of immunisation by parents, teachers, and the whole society led to a drastic drop in HPV immunisation coverage among girls in recent years, an investigation by Euractiv Bulgaria showed.

We are just 48h away from the plenary vote on the proposed EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) in the European Parliament and, if the right amendments are supported, this vote will mark an important step towards beverage packaging circularity.

As Europe continues its push towards its green and digital transitions, Huawei said the task "will not be easy" and stressed that no country can "succeed alone", at the company's annual conference in Paris on Tuesday (14 November). 

The first Bridges of Trust gathering brought together representatives from Ukrainian and European municipalities, as well as Ukrainian and European Local Self-Government Associations, EU institutions, and other relevant organizations that have joined forces since the onset of the conflict. In...

From technological dependency to a lack of skills, Europe's digital SMEs face an uphill challenge in driving the EU's digital sovereignty agenda.

A third round of United Nations negotiations to try to deliver the world’s first treaty to control plastic pollution has drawn more than 500 proposals from governments, participants said on Sunday (19 November). Negotiators, who spent a week meeting in...

It is urgent to assist the 360 million people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance, write Carlos Zorrinho and Mónica Silvana González. MEP Carlos Zorrinho is EP Standing Rapporteur for Humanitarian Aid (S&D, PT). MEP Mónica Silvana González is former EP...

Argentina elected right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as its new president on Sunday (19 November), rolling the dice on an outsider with radical views to fix an economy battered by triple-digit inflation, a looming recession and rising poverty.

The German government is eyeing the introduction of “stroke guides” into public healthcare systems, which patients’ representatives say would help make post-stroke care more holistic and support patients beyond purely medical services.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday (19 November) demanded rapid changes in the operations of Ukraine's military and announced the dismissal of the commander of the military's medical forces.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the German far-left's top EU candidate vowing to fight 'climate apartheid’, Podemos clashing with Sumar to avoid being sidelined in the new Sánchez government, and so much more.