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Your health should never depend on who you are, where you live or how much money you have. Yet, in 2021, about 4.5 billion people, more than half of the global population, were not fully covered by essential health services. Globally, five million children under the age of five die each year from preventable and treatable causes due to the lack of affordable health and sanitation interventions. Think about it: that is one in four children under five within the European Union.

EU foreign ministers are meeting on Monday (13 November) to continue trying to balance support for Israel’s right to defend itself with calls for protecting civilians in Gaza.

Western Balkans representatives should join their EU counterparts more regularly for meetings to increasingly align with the bloc's common foreign and security policy, according to a non-paper on “deeper cooperation” with the region, produced by a group of EU countries and seen by Euractiv.

As the world's nations enter another round of talks this week on creating a first-ever treaty to contain plastic pollution, officials are bracing for tough negotiations over whether to limit the amount of plastic being produced or just to focus on the management of waste.

Oil and gas producers warn the EU's draft methane regulation will be "impossible to implement" in its current form as legislators near completion of draft new rules to crack down on methane leaks from fossil fuels.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the French march against anti-Semitism that President Emmanuel Macron did not attend, Bulgaria's restaurant sector opposing taxes on tips, and so much more.

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Amsterdam on Sunday (12 November) demanding immediate action against climate change, 10 days before the country holds a general election.

Burim Ramadani, the former head of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, has published what he says is a leaked copy of the EU-US draft of the statute for the Association of Serb Municipalities for the North of Kosovo, a key demand...

Serbia must take advantage of the European Commission’s report of the country, which found limited progress but no setbacks, Minister for European Integration Tanja Miščević told Euractiv. This was the general conclusion following the presentation of the European Commission’s report...

Romania’s new strategy for Africa is designed to revive the country’s ties with Africa, leveraging a promising basis for collaboration, ahead of President Klaus Iohannis’ upcoming tour in Africa, which starts on Tuesday. This visit marks the first high-level political...

The Bulgarian government’s proposal for a 10% tax on tips for waiters, taxi drivers and hairdressers has been strongly opposed by the restaurant industry and financiers and mocked by former prime minister Boyko Borisov. In 2022, the restaurant industry collected...

Environmental groups are taking the UK government to court on Monday (13 November) over plans to spend billions on Biomass with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), a technology aimed at removing CO2 from the atmosphere that is also being promoted by the European Union.

Following months of disagreements and clashes, a key opposition fraction decided to leave leftist Syriza party in a move seen by some as a further blow to left’s unity, while others described it as a relief for the new leadership.

Austria’s far-right FPÖ (ID Group), which has maintained its lead over other parties for a year now, is currently on track to become the country’s strongest party in the national elections set for autumn next year. Polls suggest the party...

Slovakia’s Media Freedom Platform – which includes government, NGO and media representatives – aims to support the implementation of international commitments, including the Commission’s Rule of Law reports, amid Prime Minister Robert Fico’s latest attack on journalists in another video....

A Ukrainian military officer coordinated last year's attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Washington Post reported on Saturday (11 November), citing anonymous sources in Ukraine and Europe.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Ukrainians on Sunday (12 November) to prepare for new waves of Russian attacks on infrastructure as winter approached and said troops were anticipating an onslaught in the eastern theatre of the war.

Negotiators of the European Parliament and the EU Council reached an agreement on the bloc's 2024 budget, with the Parliament and the Commission calling on member states to agree on the proposed revision of the Union's long-term budget as soon as possible.

The Polish conservative PiS party faces its last chance to form an alliance in a bid to gain a parliamentary majority after its de facto defeat in last month’s general elections was saved by President Andrzej Duda, who appointed PiS’...

Only complementary recycling and reuse systems will allow us to achieve the PPWR’s objectives. To accelerate progress on packaging circularity in Europe, we need a strong, consistent and evidence-based regulation, built to shape the transition in an economically and environmentally sound manner.