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In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the significant increase in Finnish exports to the US, French President Emmanuel Macron wanting to move forward despite many still proposing the new pension law, and so much more.

Employees at Microelectronica, a manufacturer and retailer of hardware and software tools, had their employees gradually work four days a week over the past eight months, increasing productivity by about 30%. In Serbia, employees work about 43 hours a week,...

After being wrong-footed by a massive wildfire last year, Slovenia has decided to build up dedicated aerial firefighting capabilities, for which it has purchased four water bombers, two of which will be delivered before wildfire season starts. Under a €23...

Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said on Monday he would not go to a Council of Europe event marking 20 years of Serbia’s membership if the international human rights organisation starts a procedure to accept Kosovo as its newest member. Speaking...

Croatia plans to spend €8.5 billion on its national cancer strategy until 2025 to reduce a cancer-related death rate public health officials claim is “among the highest in Europe”. The plan was presented by the head of Croatia’s public health...

Hungary is lobbying to get Belarusian pellets back on the EU market, as they are currently on the EU sanctions list, Portfolio reports, based on the Belarusian news portal Reform.by. According to the report, the Belarusian government’s ambassador to Hungary gave an...

Slovakia temporarily banned the imports of Ukrainian grain and other food products after an increased amount of pesticide not authorised in the EU was found in Ukrainian wheat imports, acting Agriculture Minister Samuel Vlčan announced on Monday. The pesticide, banned...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva drew criticism from the US on 17 April for his comments suggesting the West had been "encouraging" war by arming Ukraine, while he was praised by Russia for his proposal for peace talks.

Belgian authorities have requested the European Parliament to lift the immunity of Greek MEP Alexis Georgoulis (EU Left) after an EU Commission employee filed a complaint of sexual harassment. The MEP rejected the complaint as a “lie” one month before...

Finance Minister Magnus Brunner defended her government’s measures that aim to tackle the above-EU average inflation rate in the country amid growing criticism on Monday. To face growing inflation, which reached a very high rate of 9.1% in March, the...

EU attempts on Monday to mediate the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain to Poland, Hungary, and later Slovakia has fallen on deaf ears and are set to escalate as Bulgaria mulls a similar ban. Hungary is known for...

The French government will present a roadmap with three priorities of which the progress will be assessed on Bastille Day, President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised speech where he again defended his newly adopted pension law despite ongoing opposition...

Greece must recover illegal state aid which “gifted” to companies presumably affected by wildfires in 2007 ignoring a decision of both the European Commission and the EU Court of Justice, an EU executive spokesperson told EURACTIV.com.

Green jet fuel made from used cooking oil and animal fats should be restricted on environmental grounds, a recent British government consultation document has suggested, raising questions over whether the EU will follow suit.

The UK will continue to support Vladimir Kara-Murza, the British-Russian journalist who denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is serving a 25-year prison sentence for treason, and calls for his immediate release, said UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Monday....

The inflation rate should register a significant drop from April onwards, with inflation expected to be below 5.1% for months in the second half of the year, Finance Minister Fernando Medina said as he presented the government’s Stability Programme for...

Spain is already showing leadership on complex issues such as economic recovery and energy, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said in Madrid on Monday, ahead of when his country takes over the rotating EU Council presidency for the second half...

Sweden launched Aurora 23 on Monday, its largest military exercise in 30 years that aims to simulate an attack from a foreign power as it is soon expected to join the NATO alliance. In the coming weeks, the Swedish army,...

The Justice Ministry has drafted legislation to allow lawyers from non-EU or non-EEA countries to provide legal services in Lithuania. “The need to enable third-country lawyers to practise in Lithuania has been identified by the Ukrainian legal community that has...

Sudan's battling factions both claimed to have made gains on Monday (17 April) as violence cut power and water in the capital, and the UN envoy to Sudan said the two sides showed no signs of being willing to negotiate.