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In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about former Czech prime minister Andrej Babis attending the conservative CPAC conference in Budapest as "a conservative leader", climate activists blocking roads in Berlin, and so much more.

Croatia’s national oil and gas company INA announced their plan to permanently abandon the site of the sunken gas platform Ivana D-1 in the northern Adriatic on Monday, leading to opposition from environmentalists. The unmanned platform, located some 50 kilometres...

President Aleksandar Vučić said he would go to Brussels on 2 May to continue talks about normalising relations with Kosovo, following elections in the Serb-majority municipalities of northern Kosovo that were plagued by a historically low turnout. A total of...

Romania has a surplus of honey but struggles to sell it due to unfair competition from cheaper imported honey, especially from Ukraine, China, and Moldova, Romania’s beekeeper association, which also pointed to the country’s strong production just a few years...

The caretaker government reacted to Russian Ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova’s recent comments on who she would vote for if she were a Bulgarian citizen, saying they were an attempt to interfere in the country’s internal affairs. Read more. Mitrofanova’s last interview...

The European Commission is optimistic it will finalise the reform package on the ‘thorny’ topic of asylum before next year’s European elections, though experts on the matter are not as positive.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is giving €29 million to a special purpose vehicle owned by France’s Voltalia, to develop the 140 MW Karavasta solar plant in ​​southwest Albania, at a time communities continue to oppose hydropower,...

Kosovo has passed on Monday the first formal stage of joining the Strasbourg-based international human rights body, the Council of Europe. The Ministerial Committee of the Council of Europe decided, with the votes of two-thirds of member states, to forward...

The Slovak Environmental Agency launched the submission of applications in the third call of the Renew House programme on Monday morning. While 5,500 applications had already been registered by Monday lunch, the call may close once 10,000 applications are submitted....

A technical agreement on a justice reform package – which could unblock at least €13 billion of Hungary’s catch-up aid – has been reached by the Hungarian government and the European Commission, Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga announced on Monday....

The chief of the European People’s Party's 2019 EU election campaign, Dara Murphy, will have a hearing with German authorities in Brussels on Tuesday (25 April) as part of an ongoing inquiry into alleged corruption, a well-informed source in Berlin told EURACTIV.

EU top diplomat Josep Borrell nominating Italian former foreign minister and Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio to be the bloc’s special envoy to the Persian Gulf has been met with protest from some political parties and doubt among several...

The remains of the founder of the fascist Falange Española movement, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, were exhumed on Monday amid political controversy and clashes between former dictator Francisco Franco’s supporters and the Spanish police. Primo de Rivera was shot...

Poland will transpose the EU Minimum Wage Directive as part of its efforts to adjust the country’s salaries to EU standards, the  Family and Social Affairs Ministry said on Monday. Following January’s increase to 3,490 zlotys (€759) and the expected...

The government has confirmed it will take the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to court over planned strike action next week, the RCN wrote on their website. Earlier on Monday, Health Secretary Steve Barclay decided to back down from challenging...

As the cement industry moves towards the execution of its Carbon Neutrality Roadmap, the Net Zero Industry Act provides an opportunity to facilitate investments, writes Koen Coppenholle.

Finnish women gave birth to an average of 1.32 children in 2022, the lowest fertility rate since the figures were first recorded in 1776, according to a new report by Statistics Finland. While the fertility rate in Finland saw a...

UN Secretary-General Antóniograin Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin a "way forward" to extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain, a UN spokesperson said on Monday (24 April).

The buy-out of so-called ‘peak polluters’, which was supposed to be agreed upon this month, will be delayed until at least the end of May, as the corresponding buy-out scheme has not yet been finalised, sources close to the matter...

Long delays and difficult access plague the federal public services system in Belgium, the Federal Ombudsman’s annual report published on Monday reads. The Federal Ombudsman is an independent body affiliated with the House of Representatives, whose mission includes investigating citizens’...