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The European Parliament's health committee (ENVI) approved its amendments on a revision of safety standards for donations of substances of human origin - such as blood, plasma or corneas - settling the particularly thorny issue of the right to compensation.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about electricity prices set to increase for the French from August, the Swedish governmen worrying about the huge profits banks have made as households continue to struggle, and so much more.

A European official on Tuesday (18 July) said he expected no difficulty persuading EU nations to maintain ballistic missile sanctions on Iran that are due to expire in October.

With the price of wheat currently less than production costs and concerns over quality due to spring and summer storms, Albanian farmers are stuck with an increased amount of wheat and few options when it comes to selling it. In...

Lawmakers set up a committee tasked to investigate the facts and circumstances that led to the two mass shootings in May at the opposition’s request in parliament on Tuesday. The Assembly decided to create the Inquiry Committee on 11 July...

Parliament adopted legislation to create a long-term care system for the elderly and infirm on Tuesday, addressing one of the biggest failings in the country’s welfare system after more than two decades of failed attempts by successive governments. The system,...

Debts on the projects financed by EU funds will be settled by 1 September, the Ministry for Investments and European Projects has announced. According to the executive president of the Association of Municipalities in Romania (AMR), Constantin Toma, payment delays...

A 39-year-old man accused of threatening to kill Bulgarian Defence Minister Todor Tagarev over his position on the war in Ukraine was arrested in Sofia on Tuesday. Tagarev, who is part of the new government in Sofia, is pro-European and...

Czechia will build its first small modular reactor in 2032 to increase energy security and climate protection in a project backed by Czech President Petr Pavel, who stressed the role of nuclear energy in the country’s future energy mix. Czechia...

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of centre-right opposition Partido Popular, missed the final political debate aired on public television broadcaster RTVE Wednesday night as the campaign entered crunch time ahead of election day  Sunday. Following the debate between Núñez Feijóo and...

Slovakia’s key armament companies quadrupled their profits last year compared to the previous one, with companies confirming their extraordinary results were due to the war in Ukraine. Slovakia’s 17 most important domestic armouries saw sales increase by 51% last year,...

A global pattern of heat waves scorching parts of Europe, Asia and the United States intensified on Tuesday (18 July), with the World Meteorological Organization warning of an increased risk of deaths linked to excessively high temperatures.

Banks in Sweden continue to report large profits while households struggle with high-interest rates and high inflation, drawing criticism from Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson. Sweden’s major banks increased profits at a faster rate than...

Austria will try to attract more than 15,000 skilled workers from non-EU countries each year by 2027, Labour Minister Martin Kocher (ÖVP) announced in a statement on Tuesday after talks with Social Affairs Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) and representatives of...

Vice-Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s Lega and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia have opposed the nomination of German NGO Sea Watch activist Carola Rackete, as a candidate for German Left Party for next year’s EU election due to her arrest...

Belgium has failed to comply with a Brussels court ruling calling on the national authorities to provide housing for an asylum seeker, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said on Tuesday. A Guinean citizen brought the case before...

There are a "number of ideas being floated" to help get Ukrainian and Russian grain and fertilizer to global markets after Moscow quit a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, the UN said on 18 July.

The international law standard of reviewing each asylum claim individually should be replaced by a common European capped intake, Thorsten Frei, chief whip of the centre-right CDU party, wrote in an op-ed published on Tuesday. Germany is currently facing a...

Electricity prices for over 20 million French households are set to rise by 10% from August – an announcement that the opposition in parliament has heavily criticised.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen did not make the harsh remarks about right-wing Partido Popular candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo that EL PAÍS newspaper attributed to her in an op-ed published on Monday, the EU executive said on Tuesday....