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The German government appears to have dropped a much-debated idea of cutting diesel subsidies for farmers for now, but the question of what climate-friendly alternatives there are for tractors and other agricultural machinery remains.

I very much enjoy visiting people working on farms, getting to know them, getting to understand their challenges. Human interaction is so important for a company like Syngenta as we provide solutions to help farmers increase crop yields and protect...

The massive development of intermittent renewable energies is set to dramatically increase the need for flexibility in the electricity grid. Market players, such as France's Schneider Electric, are calling for increased focus on demand management as a source of grid optimisation.

The number of migrants lodging asylum applications in the EU has jumped 28% in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, official figures released Tuesday (5 September) showed.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about France's Education Minister suggesting students follow a dress code in schools, a Czech ambassador to NATO saying Sweden should soon be joining he NATO alliance, and so much more.

Russia organises flights from the Middle East to Moscow, giving migrants access to the Belarusian and then EU borders, ministers from the Baltic region said during a hearing with MEPs on Monday (4 September).

Ukraine said on Monday (4 September) its troops had regained more territory on the eastern front and were advancing south in their counteroffensive against Russian forces while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited two front-line areas.

Together for Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont (JxCAT) met with Sumar candidate Yolanda Díaz at the EU Parliament on Monday to fine-tune positions between Puigdemont’s separatist party and a future left-wing government, in which Díaz would likely be deputy prime minister...

Sweden will likely join the NATO alliance this autumn, Jakub Landovský, the Czech ambassador to NATO, has recently said. Sweden’s bid to join NATO, a joint one with Finland before its neighbour was accepted into the club, has been on...

Serbia is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of foreign workers, with numbers for the first six months of 2023 reaching almost the entire total of 2022, official data from Serbia’s National Employment Service finds. Last year, 35,000 foreign...

Led by MEP Petar Vitanov (S&D), supporters of Bulgaria’s pro-Russian President Rumen Radev have launched a referendum to keep 3 March as the country’s national holiday in response to the ruling coalition’s plans to change the national holiday to Slavic...

With a little over a month to go before the national elections, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (ODIHR) has deployed a Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM) to Poland, with a particular focus on recent legislative changes, the...

Swedish EU official Johan Floderus has been imprisoned in Iran for over 500 days after travelling there to visit a friend who was employed at the Swedish Embassy in Tehran, the New York Times reported on Monday. Swedish EU official...

Belgian army leadership believes that F-16 planes are in poor condition and cannot be sent to Ukraine, Lieutenant Frédéric Goetynck told De Standaard on Monday. “It’s not that we don’t want to, but when our planes are retired, they’re worn...

Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet Vladimir Putin and discuss the possibility of supplying Moscow with weapons for the war in Ukraine, as Russia says it is seeking closer military ties with North Korea.

New UK-backed projects worth £49 million will be announced by Development and Africa Minister Andrew Mitchell at the first Africa Climate Summit, which will be hosted by Kenya from 4 to 6 September. The UK is “committed to the fight...

A trial of a ‘single school outfit’ – more similar to a dress code rather than a uniform – will be launched in the coming months, Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced a week after announcing the controversial abaya ban on...

Discourse on the transition to net zero invariably focuses on reducing carbon. But this is too simplistic.  A circular economy is not carbon-free: carbon is embedded in its products. And that is good for the climate.

The French aviation industry firmly opposes any tax increase aimed at ensuring a minimum price for plane flights within Europe, Pascal de Izaguirre, CEO of Corsican air company Corsair and chairman of the aviation industry federation Fnam, told TV broadcaster...

Germany’s coalition parties vowed to prioritise economic growth in challenging times and despite fiscal prudence, as the pro-market FDP also demanded more support from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to reduce Germany’s bureaucratic burden. The German parliament returns...