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Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has sketched a timetable to ban the sale of new gas boilers in France but decision-makers are treading carefully as some fear the government may face similar difficulties as Germany with its own phase-out plan.

EU member states gave their final blessing to the EU battery regulation on Monday (10 July), adopting a law designed to boost the bloc’s nascent battery production industry by making European batteries synonymous with quality.

Amazon has initiated proceedings to contest the European Commission’s decision to designate it as a very large online platform under the Digital Services Act, a category that entails a strict regulatory regime.

The first less controversial parts of the EU’s landmark AI law have already been cleared at the technical level, whilst the provisions to promote innovation and the obligation for a fundamental rights impact assessment might follow suit.

NATO is stepping up cooperation with four key Asia-Pacific countries, though divisions remain over what shape the alliance's outreach to the region will take. 

According to the EAACI Anaphylaxis Guidelines 2021, “anaphylaxis is a life-threatening reaction characterised by the acute onset of symptoms involving different organ systems and requiring immediate medical intervention”. Marcia Podestà is President of Food Allergy Italia. The World Allergy Organization...

The POTENTIAL consortium headed by France and Germany has begun work on the European Digital Identity wallet, with deployment excepted by 2025, it was announced at the launch event in Paris on Monday (10 July). 

The Council of the EU discusses a telecom EU regulation that aims at fostering gigabit infrastructure deployment across the EU. Member States seem to accept the binding instrument of a regulation, at the condition that it respects "minimum harmonisation".

China's foreign minister Qin Gang will not attend a diplomatic gathering in Indonesia as expected this week, sources familiar with the matter said, extending an unexplained public absence that has lasted for more than two weeks.

In an exclusive interview, Ukraine's head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the Wagner fighters reached a nuclear base and that their intention was to acquire small Soviet-era nuclear devices in order to "raise the stakes" in their mutiny.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Austria calling for solidarity with EU states affected by migration, social media being blamed for language loss in Albania and other European countries, and so much more.

In a “puzzling” meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, EU Council chief Charles Michel vowed to “re-energise” Turkey’s EU future, although a couple of hours before, the European Commission in Brussels rejected Ankara’s request to unfreeze EU accession talks...

The United States is "well positioned" to reach a deal with the European Union before the end of 2023 to allow critical minerals mined or processed in Europe to qualify for US clean vehicle tax breaks, a senior US treasury official said on Monday (10 July).

As many as 61,000 people may have died in Europe's sweltering heatwaves last summer, according to new research, suggesting countries' heat preparedness efforts are falling fatally short.

Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) will support Hlas’ membership bid to join the Party of European Socialists (PES), said SPD co-leader Lars Klingbeil, adding that Smer will face the consequences if it cooperates with the far-right. Klingbeil met Hlas leader...

Albania’s Special Court Against Organised Crime and Corruption (SPAK) has asked parliament for authorisation to arrest former deputy prime minister Arben Ahmetaj over a range of corruption-related charges. Ahmetaj is currently under investigation by the prosecutor concerning the controversial incinerator...

Albanian language skills are falling amongst youth, according to the results of the annual state matura exam, but this phenomenon, blamed by some on social media, is also occurring throughout Europe. Official data published by local education institutions found that...

The Republika Srpska government, one of the two autonomous entities of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, declared a state of emergency in an entire northeastern region to contain the spreading of African swine fever on Monday. Agriculture Minister Savo Minic told Nezavisne Novine...

It is high time to recognise 11 July as an official International Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Srebrenica Genocide, said the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic. The massacre occurred over around a month...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, agreed to disagree over Podgorica’s recognition of Kosovo’s independence, but both leaders showed willingness to increase trust and the strength of the relationship in the future. Vučić pointed out...