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In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Taiwan encouraging companies to invest in Lithuania, Meloni clashing with judges for undermining efforts to curb migration, and so much more.

Serbia’s Minister of Defence Milos Vucevic said they will only invade Kosovo on President Aleksander Vucic’s orders, while Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has reinforced Pristina’s view that Serbia was planning to annexe the north of Kosovo on the terrorist...

In a close race ahead of next year’s presidential elections, independent candidate Mircea Geoană, the deputy secretary general of NATO, is leading the race for the presidential elections with 25.3%. In a recent poll released on Monday, Geoană, leads the...

Nothing illustrates the crisis at the World Trade Organization more than the piling up of unresolved disputes and the growing list of what it terms the "trade concerns" of its members.

A new national airline set to replace AirMalta by next March – which will cost the government an estimated €440 million – was announced by Prime Minister Robert Abela and Finance Minister Clyde Caruana on Monday, with plans for the...

Climate activists are under increasing pressure in Europe, Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, told Lusa on Monday while expressing his surprise at the violence with which some governments treat them. “Rights defenders as a whole face...

As Spain’s King Felipe VI began his second round of contacts with the country’s main political parties on Monday, acting Prime Minister and Socialist candidate Pedro Sánchez is nearing his own “moment of truth” as he must soon clarify how...

EU accession negotiations with Ukraine should be opened in autumn 2023 or early next year, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said at the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Kyiv on Monday. According to Lipavský, the meeting in Kyiv was...

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová has given election winner and Smer leader Robert Fico 14 days to form a new government, while he says he will do “everything possible” to make it happen, with the second-placed Progressive Slovakia saying the same...

Former Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra has yet to be confirmed as the EU’s new climate commissioner after an inconclusive European Parliament hearing on Monday (2 October). Hoekstra, a centre-right conservative, knew he would face questions from Parliament about the...

Lithuania has solid research capabilities and innovation while Taiwan has commercialisation capabilities and experiences in developing international markets, a Taiwanese official told Euractiv, adding that they would be glad to provide various kinds of facilitation to deepen this cooperation. The...

A last-ditch weekend spending agreement avoided a US government shutdown but left pro-Ukraine officials in Washington scrambling on Monday (2 October) to determine the best path forward for securing approval for billions more assistance for Kyiv.

Swedish police have launched a unique national initiative to deal with the rise in violence, focusing on gang-related shootings and explosions after two new blasts rocked Stockholm on Monday. In September alone, 11 people were killed in shootings, making it...

Utrecht Mayor Sharon Dijksma (PvdA/S&D) has sounded the alarm as the Netherlands struggles to cope with a growing influx of Ukrainian refugees, with the country’s main asylum centre for Ukrainians in Utrecht at twice its capacity. Ukrainian refugees arriving in...

Business and civil society organization leaders urge the co-legislators to prioritize adopting the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) for energy security, climate goals, and industrial competitiveness. They call for swift action.

The government’s decision to suspend the reception of single male asylum seekers in the centres run by the Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil) to give priority to families with children is backed by 56% of Belgians,...

Germany did the right thing by funding private rescue operations for migrants in the Mediterranean. Ricarda Lang, leader of the ruling Greens, insisted on Monday, rejecting complaints from the opposition and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Last week, Italian media...

France launched a vaccination campaign against genital human papillomavirus (HPV) for all girls and boys in secondary schools, as the country has one of the lowest vaccine rates against HPV in Europe. The vaccination, which requires two doses, will not...

Bulgaria became the latest EU country on Tuesday to ban the entry Russian-registered cars, joining Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Poland. Russians can currently enter Bulgaria with their cars, mainly through Turkey, although there are no official figures on how...

Austria, Croatia and Slovenia are pushing to open accession talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina this year, arguing that the move would be of geopolitical importance to stabilise the region, the foreign ministers of the three states wrote in an op-ed...