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About a quarter of Libya's eastern city of Derna was wiped out after dams burst in a storm, the administration in the area said on 12 September, and the Red Cross said 10,000 people were feared to be missing across the country in floods.

German imports of refined oil products from India soared in the first seven months of the year, official data showed Tuesday (12 September), much of which was likely made using crude oil from sanctions-hit Russia.

The Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) will be a major shift, harmonising rules across Europe and introducing essential new measures, including, reduction, reuse and recyclability. Producer Responsibility Organisations are calling for an ambitious collective approach to reach EU targets and tackle today's environmental challenges.

Animal welfare should be explicitly mentioned in the title of a Commissioner in the next legislative mandate to make it a priority of the next EU executive and avoid the risks of having more animal testing in Europe, according to Green MEP Tilly Metz.

Many questions about how to phase out animal testing and promote alternative methods still remained unanswered after the current legislative term which is about to end in just over a year.

Two Norwegian opposition parties, the national-conservative Progress Party (FrP) and the centre-right Høyre (H) party of former Prime Minister Erna Solberg, won Monday's local elections in Norway, denying the centre-left Labour victory for the first time in 99 years.

Entering accession talks with the EU would help make the reform process in Ukraine faster and more effective, Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko told EURACTIV, voicing hope that this would happen by the end of 2023.

Slovak elections this month could see the EU member change course on Ukraine, analysts said, with polls suggesting the next prime minister could be Robert Fico, a Kremlin-friendly populist.

The European Commission is looking to rescale its military research and developement fund to limit the number of projects and avoid dispersion, according to people close to the matter.

The delay in implementing a tool to protect the EU market against fraudulent biofuels imports has been heavily criticised by European biofuel producers, who point the finger at the European Commission.

The French left in the European Parliament will only join the initiative launched by MEP Christophe Grudler (Renew) against the Parliament's current mandate for the reform negotiations on the EU electricity market if the right and the far right side with it.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his allies urged Ukrainians on Monday (11 September) to keep their focus squarely on the war effort 18 months into Russia's invasion, an indication that authorities in Kyiv were steeling for a long campaign.

Russia said on 11 September a EU ban on Russians bringing their cars and some personal goods into the bloc was racist, and one ally of President Vladimir Putin suggested that all diplomatic relations should be suspended in response.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the court date of the mayor at the centre of the Athens-Tirana spat getting announced, Austria wanting to end EU-accession talks with Turkey, and so much more.

After a year of huge profits due to the EU electricity market crisis, Bulgaria’s coal industry has started to lose taxpayers’ money, data from the state-owned company Mini Maritsa-Iztok according to  EURACTIV Bulgaria’s partner Capital.bg. The state-owned mining company, which...

The Biden administration is close to approving the shipment of longer-range missiles packed with cluster bombs to Ukraine, giving Kyiv the ability to cause significant damage deeper within Russian-occupied territory, according to four US officials.

The preliminary court date for the case against the elected but unsworn mayor of Himare, Fredi Beleri, has been set for Thursday, one day before the time limit for him to take office expires. Beleri, an Albanian ethnic Greek running...

Unprecedented wildfires during the summer followed by massive floods have dealt the Greek agriculture a severe blow with analysts estimating that food prices will soon skyrocket further.

The text of Ursula von der Leyen’s last State of the Union speech before next June’s European elections is one of the best-kept secrets in Brussels. However, little of the policy content will come as a big surprise: Migration control and the implementation of the Green Deal will likely be at its heart. 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia, media reported on 12 September, for what the Kremlin said would be a comprehensive discussion with Vladimir Putin amid warnings from Washington they should not agree on an arms deal.