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All major EU institutions banned TikTok on work phones in the last week. We discuss the ban and the geopolitical context in which it takes part with Jade Nester, Head of Data Public Policy for Europe at TikTok, and Katja Muñoz,...

Mandatory requirements for sustainable public procurement and a voluntary harmonised sustainability labelling system have been ranked among the preferred policy initiatives under the EU’s framework for a sustainable food systems (FSFS) law, according to a leaked impact assessment.

Consumers could be protected from future price shocks by hedging through the retail market, public payments or investments - at costs that need to be carefully considered, writes Lion Hirth.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (2 March) Russia had been hit by a "terrorist attack" in the southern Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, and vowed to crush what he said was a Ukrainian sabotage group that had fired at civilians.

Anger and sorrow grew in Greece on Thursday (2 March) over a devastating train crash that killed dozens of passengers along with crew members near the central city of Larissa in the country's worst rail disaster.

France and Spain announced a breakthrough on Thursday (2 March) in a long-running impasse over what would be their first undersea electricity link, a move that will nearly double the power exchange capacity between the two countries – from 2,800 to 5,000 megawatts (MW).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about German Chancellor Olaf Scholz saying negotiations with Russia at gunpoint are 'impossible', Hungary delaying the NATO ratification process for Sweden and Finland even further, and so much more.

Protesters on Thursday (2 March) disrupted committee hearings in the Georgian parliament on a controversial "foreign agents" bill backed by the ruling party, which critics have said represents an authoritarian shift in the country.

Slovenia is considering shortening the time asylum seekers must wait before accessing the labour market, with the Interior Ministry saying on Thursday that a proposal is already in the pipeline. The government is now looking into moving in the direction...

Following Serbian President Aleksander Vucic’s apparent backtrack on plans to sign the EU-brokered proposal to normalise relations between Serbia and Belgrade, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti spoke of his disappointment to parliament on Thursday while the EU remains positive. During...

Retail chains in Bulgaria have caught the eye of the authorities as the Commission for Consumer Protection has revealed the high rate of violations and suspected unfair trade practices in the retail sector. In the last two weeks, the Commission...

Crowds of activists and members of the public, including women and children, gathered outside of the Albanian Ministry of Justice on Thursday evening to protest over the murder of three women by a man with a long history of rape,...

Migrants arriving in Italy mainly depart from the coasts of North Africa, but the number of migrants arriving from Turkey, despite being closer to Greece, has increased in the last two years. In 2022 there were about 16,000, 15% of all arrivals.

The subsidies available for purchasing new electric and hybrid vehicles will now amount to about €2.5 million (294 million dinars), twice as much as what was allocated last year, a newly adopted Serbian government decree states. The decree allows legal...

Moscow has demanded an official explanation from Belgrade about reports that Serbia, one of Russia’s traditional allies, had delivered a batch of rockets to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday Moscow was “deeply concerned” about the...

A global conference to save the world's oceans kicked off Thursday (2 March) in Panama with urgent calls to adopt an international protection treaty, along with billions of dollars in US and EU pledges for research, monitoring and conservation.

Electric utility company EDP plans to invest €3 billion in Portugal by 2026, according to the strategic plan update released on Thursday, which corresponds to 12% of the total planned investment of €25 billion. EDP’s CEO, Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, and...

Parliament will decide on Finland and Sweden’s NATO accession on 20 March instead of 6 March, delaying accession for another two weeks, according to the new session schedule adopted on Thursday. Hungary and Turkey are the only two NATO member...

Poland must quickly change its forest management laws as the EU Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that it violates the EU animal and bird settlement directive and prevented environmental organisations from questioning the government’s afforestation plans. In its Thursday...

The Polish government will continue using TikTok, including for electoral purposes, the ruling party PiS, which has also asked the European Commission to provide further justification for its recent decision to ban the social media app from staff devices, said....