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Most EU member states’ national strategic plans for the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) prioritise economically supporting farms at the expense of ambitious environmental measures, a study for the European Parliament found.

The European Commission's impact assessment and update on the EU's pesticide cuts plan sparked mixed reactions among stakeholders and lawmakers, sparking calls to stop stalling the reform and caveats about consequences for European agriculture.

The European Court of Auditors' (ECA) review of the digitalisation of the EU funds, published on Thursday (6 July), described the current landscape of the systems used by the European Commission to manage funds and planned developments.

European institutions agreed on Thursday (6 July) on the modalities to establish the fund to boost ammunition and missile production in the bloc, but postponed the negotiations on some regulatory waivers to a later stage.

After decades of conflict, three years of consecutive drought, and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, Afghanistan remains one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises with over a third of its population acutely food insecure.

President Alexander Lukashenko said on 6 July that he would have a veto over any use of the tactical nuclear weapons that Russia is stationing in Belarus, and goaded the West's spies for missing the transport of the warheads.

The EU has been working on reporting obligations for private actors on actively exploited vulnerabilities and cybersecurity incidents in several legislative files while trying to establish mechanisms for sharing cyber threat intelligence, extremely sensitive information. We took stock of the...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the continued increase in property prices in Croatia despite promises of a drop, Germany countering France's accusations of double standards with regard to nuclear, and so much more.

The “Serbia against violence” anti-government protests taking place since two fatal shootings in early May has motivated apolitical citizens who overwhelmingly support them, while support for the ruling party is on the decline, according to a poll by CRTA. The...

The Slovenian parliament adopted a bill Thursday that will turn supplementary health insurance – a flat-rate monthly payment required for most national health services – into a mandatory contribution attached to regular health insurance premiums. After private insurers announced considerable...

The constantly deteriorating situation of the media in Serbia and the government’s failure to address it have raised eyebrows in Brussels, with the European Commission putting pressure on authorities in Belgrade to implement the necessary reforms “without delay”. 

Real estate prices in Croatia climbed by about 14% in this year’s first quarter compared to the same period last year and by about 73.6% compared to the same period in 2015, according to state statistics published on Wednesday that...

Moldova’s European integration process can serve as a catalyst for the reintegration of Transnistria, with the two processes running at different “speeds”, according to the Speaker of Moldova’s parliament, Igor Grosu. The European integration process can serve as “a catalyst...

Romania is considering opening a regional training hub for F-16 fighter jet pilots which would ultimately be available to its NATO allies and partners, including Ukraine, the country's supreme defence council (CSAT) said on Thursday (6 July).

Albanian medical students protested outside parliament on Thursday after the passage of a controversial law aimed at stopping the mass emigration of doctors and nurses, which is causing severe shortages in the country’s ailing hospital network. Albania has the lowest...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama embarked on his tour of Western Balkan countries on Thursday, stopping off in North Macedonia, where he and his Macedonian counterpart both dropped hints that the EU needs to do more for the region. Last...

Political groups in the European Parliament have agreed on the broad terms of the EU’s electricity market reform on Thursday (6 July), paving the way for a swift adoption of the proposal in the EU assembly before decisive talks with EU member states to finalise the law.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy travelled to Prague to meet with the country’s leaders on Thursday evening, marking yet another meeting between Ukrainian and Czech officials since Russia’s invasion of the war-torn country, Czech media reported. “Prague is next. I will...

Half of Czechs feel that Justice Minister Pavel Blažek of the main ruling party ODS (ECR), undermines public trust in the judiciary, according to a new poll that comes after about three-quarters of the junior coalition party, the Pirate Party...

Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site owned by Elon Musk.