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In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany and Italy reacting to President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform push, internet addiction rising in Serbia, and so much more.

Ukraine's reconstruction and recovery needs have grown to $411 billion, just over a year since Russia's invasion, the World Bank said Wednesday (22 March).

Illicit capital, the Kremlin's most potent sharp power tool, circulates in and out of the Western Balkans on a staggering scale, enabled by governance weakness, endemic corruption, organized crime, and a rampant shadow economy, Vanya Petrova and Ruslan Stefanov write.

This week on the Beyond the Byline podcast, we are looking at the trouble in the financial markets, following the collapse of the US-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Credit Suisse had to be taken over by UBS in an emergency operation....

The government is preparing a scheme to prevent the emigration of young people, particularly doctors and nurses, through the means of home credit, wage increases, and requirements to practice locally for a set time. The European Union hopeful has seen...

Kosovo has implemented US sanctions on the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, de facto designating them a significant transnational criminal organisation, as fears about the group being active in the region remain. In January, the US Treasury Department enforced sanctions against...

People in Serbia are becoming slightly more addicted to social media, electronic devices and video games, Doctor Nikola Jovanović, a psychiatrist at the Institute for Mental Health, told EURACTIV, pointing to the lack of a national strategy to tackle internet...

Bulgaria will extradite Ivan Dimov, a former member of the Bulgarian Supreme Judicial Council, to Austria as he is wanted for laundering €170,000, the Court of Appeal in Plovdiv decided on Tuesday. In January, the prosecutor’s office in Wels, Austria,...

Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Wednesday (22 March) there was no nuclear escalation in the Ukraine war after Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised Britain for supplying depleted uranium tank munitions to Ukrainian forces.

The government plans to extend the regulation on electricity and gas retail prices for households, small business customers and Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which expires in mid-2023, until the end of the year, with unofficial information indicating price levels will remain the same.

The ammunition plant in the city of Dubnica nad Váhom is ‘very impressive’ and has ‘ironclad’ plan to increase ammunition production two or threefold, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said as part of his 11-EU country Defence Tour to boost...

Czechia decided to join the new Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, established in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Brussels-based institute, which aims to stimulate the debate on Europe’s current geopolitical challenges, received support from the leaders of France, Germany...

A German police officer was shot and wounded during raids on properties across the country linked to investigations into the far-right Reichsbuerger movement which is accused of plotting to overthrow the government, prosecutors said on Wednesday (22 March).

State-owned energy company Fortum and Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the opportunities for deploying small modular reactors (SMR) in Finland and Sweden. While Fortum’s new strategy aims ”to deliver reliable, clean energy and drive decarbonisation in industries...

Finland’s North Ostrobothnia region should be able to produce ‘at least’ one-tenth of the EU’s zero-emission hydrogen in 2030, a study published by the Technical Research Centre of Finland on Wednesday reads.

Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, who is investigating allegations of more than fifty summary killings by Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers in Afghanistan, issued a call for anyone with evidence to come forward. Haddon-Cave said he was “very hopeful” there would be...

EU Climate Chief Frans Timmermans signalled his willingness to speak about the much-debated Dutch nitrogen policy with Caroline van der Plas, leader of the Dutch agrarian interest party BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) – a party that recently made huge gains in regional...

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping for a two-day summit in Moscow this week. Here's a look at the key outcomes.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó criticised the EU’s Russia sanctions as “harmful” on Wednesday, and vowed to protect the Bosnian Serb secessionist leader Milorad Dodik against any sanctions “as long as we are in power in Hungary”. Speaking at an...

Japan will offer Poland financial development assistance to support in assisting the neighbouring war-torn Ukraine, announced Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a meeting with his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki. On Wednesday, Kishida visited Warsaw, one day after he made...