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Incidents against Ukrainians are on the rise in the Czech Republic, with a recent analysis showing an increase between the start of the year and the end of July compared to the whole of last year. In Iustitia, which conducted...

The political amnesty demanded by Catalan pro-independence parties for those prosecuted over the failed illegal referendum on self-determination held in October 2017 is constitutional and can be granted, the spokesman for the left-wing bloc Sumar, Ernest Urtasun, said on Thursday....

The Party of the European Left calls for transnational unity as La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Sumar President Yolanda Díaz argue that offering a solid social programme is the key to fighting the right-wing parties in the next...

Leading German policymakers dismissed fears over the BRICS expansion announced for 2024, pointing instead to Russia and China, the two giants they see as the real threat. Six more countries will join BRICS, a club of emerging economies including Brazil,...

The Dutch government will nominate outgoing Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra as an EU commissioner, caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday (24 August), confirming media reports.

So far this year, over 2,000 people died in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe. Most politicians in the EU say the situation is unacceptable, but Europe is facing a deadlock in which both possible ways out of the crisis are blocked by the other side.

Her first year in office has confounded expectations, as Giorgia Meloni blended Atlanticism and pragmatism towards the EU with right-wing populism on immigration, cultural issues and green policy, writes Luigi Scazzieri.

The French government on Wednesday (23 August) shelved the idea of increasing tax on alcohol, tabled at the beginning of summer, in a move that pours water on the hopes of French anti-addiction associations. 

The breadth of foreign investments control in France will be broadened to critical raw materials’ extraction and transformation, Economy minister Bruno Le Maire announced on Thursday (24 August), in a thinly-veiled stab at China’s near-monopoly in the sector.

From Friday (25 August), very large online platforms and search engines will have to comply with the new EU Digital Services Act, a landmark regulation designed to combat hate speech and disinformation online - though enforcement raises challenges.

Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates were invited on Thursday (24 August) to join the BRICS group of developing nations, which seeks to increase its global influence through the first expansion in over a decade.

The energy crisis is keeping Europe dependent on LNG, allowing Russia to increase its revenues through exports. But reducing reliance on Russian LNG is not going to be an easy task, writes Andrei Belyi. 

A fiercely competitive geoeconomic environment demands new ways to combine national security with economic prosperity and innovation. Finland and Sweden could take the lead, write Heiko Borchert, Pär Malmberg, and Mikael Wigell.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about a Bulgarian MEP suggesting scrapping border controls for a more successful Schengen bid, Spain’s rightwing PM hopeful given a month ahead of first investiture debate, and so much more.

Japan on Thursday (24 August) started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, a polarising move that drew fresh and fierce criticism from China as being "selfish and irresponsible".

According to an announcement from the Albanian Defence Minister Niko Peleshi, 58 officers and 10 vehicles were sent towards the Kapshtica border crossing point to help Greek authorities contain the blazes.

Bulgaria and Romania should abolish border control if both countries are not accepted into the Schengen area by Christmas, Bulgarian MEP Andrey Novakov (EPP) said, as Austria, which has been blocking the two countries’ path toward the EU border-free zone,...

A deal to expand the BRICS group of leading developing countries appeared stuck in eleventh hour negotiations at a leaders summit on 23 August, threatening to undermine the bloc's ambition to give the "Global South" more clout in world affairs.

Miroslav Aleksić, until recently vice-president of the conservative right-wing People’s Party and representatives of several city and municipal committees, left the party and decided to establish a new party called the People’s Movement of Serbia. Aleksić, who was a member...

Slovenia is seeing a rapid increase in irregular entries on its territory, with numbers from January to July increasing by more than 150% compared to the same period last year. Of the 26,871 migrants who crossed the border in an...