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Ahead of the Commission's high-level event on mental health, set to mark World Mental Health Day, European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides lays out the Commission's actions on mental health.

The Czech health ministry would like to start penicillin production, which has long been in short supply in the country. However, the plan faces many challenges and criticism, as there are insufficient financial resources in the country or Europe. 

Bulgaria is faced with heavy EU fines as the country has been ignoring a 2019 infringement procedure initiated by the European Commission due to the lack of obligation by private hospitals in the country to conduct public procurement for medicines.

In an interview with EURACTIV, the former Italian prime minister called for a "Europe of Power", a European approach to industrial policy to counteract fragmentation risks, and a completion of the EU's Capital Markets Union (CMU).

Azerbaijan's president scolded the European Union and warned that France's decision to send military aid to Armenia could trigger a new conflict in the South Caucasus after a lightening Azerbaijani military operation last month.

Spanish company PLD Space launched its recoverable Miura-1 rocket early on Saturday (7 October) from a site in southwest Spain, carrying out Europe's first fully private rocket launch in a glimmer of hope for the region's stalled space ambitions.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about France being left in turmoil after Mélenchon’s party reacts to Hamas attack., thousands protesting Sánchez's ‘coup’ pardoning Catalan separatists, and so much more.

A careful campaign of deception ensured Israel was caught off guard when the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched its devastating attack, enabling a force using bulldozers, hang gliders and motorbikes to take on the Middle East's most powerful army.

Last week’s arrest of two Legia Warsaw players following a match against AZ Alkmaar has led to a diplomatic row between Poland and the Netherlands, with Polish politicians calling for an investigation and legal action to be taken. Dutch police...

It is “always easier” to blame Serbia, President Aleksandar Vučić said of the recent standoff between Kosovo police and heavily armed Serbian men at a Serbian Orthodox monastery near the northern village of Banjska in late September, in an interview...

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis convened the Supreme Council for National Defence on Wednesday to address the serious threat to national security posed by drugs. Before the meeting, the Interior Ministry released a draft law for public consultation aimed at increasing...

Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas attacks, according to various Czech politicians, with some calling for an end to EU funding for Palestine. “The rocket attacks and the infiltration of Hamas commandos into Israel will block any...

The presidency of the Christian Democrats (KDH)  said they were still against a coalition with  Smer leader Robert Fico in a statement on Friday, but cooperation could be on the cards in exchange for restrictions on abortion access, according to...

Thousands demonstrated in the streets of Barcelona on Sunday to reject what they say is a “coup” being prepared by the Spanish government to pardon those involved in the 2017 secession attempt, while the left-wing Sumar platform announced plans to...

The centre-right CSV (EPP) is likely to dethrone liberal Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and lead Luxembourg’s next government after the country shifted to the right following Sunday’s national elections. Luxembourg’s current “Gambia” coalition – in office since 2013 – lost...

France, Germany, Austria and the UK have decided to increase the protection of Jewish schools, institutions and places of worship in response to Hamas’ attack on Israel, with French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin saying the main reason for the increased...

France and Germany's governments kick off an unprecedented two-day retreat in Hamburg on Monday in a bid to re-set relations between the European Union's two biggest powers amid a host of disagreements on energy, industry and defence policy.

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday (8 October) accused Palestinian Islamist group Hamas of war crimes, vowing that it was time to "obliterate Hamas terror infrastructure," as the UN Security Council met to discuss the conflict.

A serious hardening of the diplomatic reaction of the EU against Azerbaijan following the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh can be expected at the diplomatic level in order to prevent aggression towards the Armenian sovereign territory, Bulgarian MEP Radan Kanev (EPP, Democratic...

State-owned petrol giant Orlen S.A. is using military oil tankers to deliver fuel to stations after reduced prices led to major shortages all over the country, the company announced over the weekend. Orlen has been accused of artificially lowering prices...