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Poland will appeal against European Union rules to end the sale of fossil fuel cars across the bloc from 2035 to the top EU court within days, the country's climate minister Anna Moskwa said on Monday (12 June).

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The United States plans to rejoin the UNESCO organisation from this July onwards, UNESCO announced on Monday (12 June).

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan redoubled his call Monday (12 June) for the international recognition of northern Cyprus, making the Mediterranean statelet his first port of call since his re-election.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Italy's Silvio Berlusconi a dear friend and an outstanding politician in a tribute to the former prime minister who died on Monday (12 June) aged 86.

A proposed EU-wide ban on new fossil heating systems as of 2029 is hanging in the balance as a German spat over boilers spilld over into Brussels, presenting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with a tough choice. 

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Sweden getting closer to NATO membership, experts warning the EU to be vigilant of China, and so much more.

Albania is a safe country, and there is no case for routinely offering asylum to Albanian claimants, the UK Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee has found, but those who work with refugees and asylum seekers say crucial evidence was ignored. In...

Centrist Renew Europe rejects any alliance with centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) if the latter closes ranks with “the right and extreme-right”, Renew Europe MEP and European Democratic Party Secretary-General Sandro Gozi told EURACTIV Italy in an interview. Instead, he...

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis designated Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu to take over now ex-prime minister Nicolae Ciuca as Romania’s interim prime minister on Monday. In 2021, when the social-democrats (PSD) and the Liberals (PNL), together with the Hungarian minority party...

The Bulgarian Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) made an unprecedented decision to propose on Monday (12 June) the dismissal of the chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev for having damaged the prestige of the judiciary. Geshev arrived on the same day in Strasbourg...

Ukrainian pilots could begin training to fly US-manufacture F-16 fighter jets as soon as this summer, the Dutch defense minister has told Reuters, a first step toward supplying Kyiv with a powerful, long-term capability in its war with Russia.

The number of people in favour of Serbia joining the European Union saw a slight rise, with 33% saying they would back the idea if a referendum were held today, Demostat’s latest public opinion survey shows, yet the numbers are...

Slovakia’s new caretaker government will end the blanket support the previous executive greenlighted to help crisis-stricken households during the pandemic and the energy crisis and shift towards more targeted support, the caretaker government’s new strategic document reads. Following the collapse...

Polish pro-choice activists are planning new countrywide protests against strict abortion laws and medical personnel refusing to provide legal abortions after another woman died due to pregnancy complications. Ongoing pro-choice protests picked up momentum this week when it was revealed...

The four right-wing parties currently in government formation talks are edging closer to an agreement, the likely future prime minister, Petteri Orpo, has said amid possible tensions. Finnish government talks between the liberal-conservative National Coalition Party (NCP), the populist Finns...

Over 600 migrants were detected attempting to cross the English Channel on Sunday, the highest number in 2023, according to the latest figures published by the Home Office on Monday. Around 616 people were detected making the crossing in 12...

The Dutch government presented its long-awaited efforts to entice the country’s largest nitrogen polluters in the agricultural sector to sell their farms, allowing about 3,000 farmers near nitrogen-sensitive nature reserves to be eligible to receive compensation if they give up...

The European Commission has recognised the role of crop-based biofuels in decarbonising transport, despite pushing through legislation for their phase-out domestically.

Austria’s former right-wing chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been hit by a new slew of corruption allegations involving electioneering and opinion poll manipulation with public funds, adding to the special corruption prosecutor’s ongoing bribery investigation against him. Kurz, who served as...