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Malta’s TransGas pipeline project has been re-added to the European Commission’s sixth ‘Projects of Common Interest’ (PCI) list, meaning it will be eligible for EU funding despite years of protests about the pipeline’s viability, environmental impact, and links to corruption...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has fallen victim to a prank call by comedians who made her believe she was discussing Ukraine and EU migration policy with the chairman of the African Union Commission, the prime minister’s office said in...

Volkswagen will not set up more European gigafactories for producing electric vehicle (EV) batteries for the time being, the carmaker’s CEO Oliver Blume has revealed, despite Czechia hoping to receive investments from the automotive giant. “Given the market situation, including...

Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez could be sworn in for a second term sooner than expected after his Socialist Party, PSOE, struck a deal with Catalonia’s Republican Left to meet its last demand that parliament pass an amnesty law for...

Air pollution, a global scourge that kills millions of people a year, is shielding us from the full force of the sun. Getting rid of it will accelerate climate change, according to six leading climate experts.

Austria will host UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Thursday to learn about her country’s experience outsourcing asylum applications to third countries. Austria has been pushing to outsource applications for asylum procedures to third states – something the UK is...

France will host the next AI Safety Summit in Paris, according to a decision made on the sidelines of the first-ever summit currently taking place mainly behind closed doors in London on Wednesday and Thursday. The AI Safety Summit aims...

Bulgaria has removed Rossiyskaya Gazeta’s Bulgarian correspondent Alexander Gatsak after declaring him a threat to national security and banning him from entering and staying in the EU, the State Agency for National Security (SANS) said on Wednesday.

Israeli forces killed another Hamas commander on Wednesday (1 October) in their second strike on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp in two days, the military said, as the first group of civilian evacuees from the besieged enclave crossed into Egypt.

Dutch authorities arrested a counter-terrorism official and a policewoman last week for allegedly leaking state secrets, the Dutch Public Prosecutor announced on Wednesday, with various media reporting that Morocco had benefited from the leaks.

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner made clear his opposition to the coalition’s flagship plan to phase out coal by 2030 in an interview on Tuesday, rejecting his government’s key pledge because Germany’s efforts would be meaningless if other EU countries...

Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau appealed for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on social media, sparking outrage from Israel’s ambassador to Warsaw. As Poland awaits a new government following October’s general election, Israel’s military conflict with Hamas has received...

There is no doubt that the Hamas terrorist assault on Israel on 7 October was extremely well prepared, technically speaking. But the guerilla operation is only the tip of the iceberg.

Moldova's president waded carefully into a row pitting the ex-Soviet state's two rival Orthodox churches against each other over Russian influence, saying churches should facilitate the country's main aim of European integration.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (1 November) on the first leg of a trip to Central Asia, a region long regarded as Russia's backyard which has drawn fresh Western attention since the war in Ukraine began.

A global green new deal – not a green trade war – is what world nations should aspire to at COP28, writes Frédéric Simon.

US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, speaking in Berlin on Tuesday (31 October), defended the Inflation Reduction Act against criticism from the EU, calling upon European countries to adopt similar policies.

Incidents of antisemitism have surged globally since the attack by Hamas gunmen on southern Israel on 7 October and the subsequent war on the Islamist group launched by Israel in the Gaza Strip.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany's ruling junior party FDP proposing to have an asylum sorting scheme similar to the UK's Rwanda asylum plan, Poles favouring Donald Tusk as the country's next prime minister, and so much more.

The United States and other countries are looking at "a variety of possible permutations" for the future of the Gaza Strip if Hamas militants are removed from control, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday (31 October).