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The Bulgarian government has been accused of illegally blocking exports of insulin and antibiotics despite having enough stockpiles. The European Commission has been urged to intervene.

A sharp increase in preventive screening points to a post-pandemic silver lining as Czech citizens seek to futureproof their health, including a 73% year-on-year increase in claims for voluntary vaccinations.

The Strategic Dialogue on Agriculture’s final recommendations suggest agricultural policy needs to fundamentally change. What does this shift look like?

The Strategic Dialogue on Agriculture’s final recommendations suggest agricultural policy needs to fundamentally change. What does this shift look like?

Court proceedings from the Irish Data Protection Commission against X are officially over as of Wednesday (4 September), after the company agreed to permanently stop processing some personal data collected in the EU to train artificial intelligence (AI).

On World Sexual Health Day, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) calls for urgent measures to stifle the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) amid rising diagnoses. 

Resistance to the Hungarian presidency's approach to the EU's draft law to combat online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was still palpable during a member states' meeting on Wednesday (4 September).

Poor soft wheat harvests in Europe and increased demand in third countries could intensify the ‘Russification of the market’ to the detriment of the EU, according to experts.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has a delicate political balance to strike in her picks for the most important jobs in the EU's executive, in addition to the one-on-one back-room talks with the national leaders who nominate commissioners, she also needs to consider the overall party-political makeup of both national governments and the European Parliament.

The leader of Forza Italia (EPP) in the European Parliament, Fulvio Martusciello, confirmed that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to grant Italy an executive vice presidency despite the ECR not being part of the pro-European majority in the Parliament. 

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is likely to look at restructuring government responsibilities after requesting a slew of top ministers to resign as part of the biggest shake-up of the wartime government, expected for Thursday.

The conclusions of the roundtable on the future of EU agriculture call for a shift away from land-based subsidies towards more support for small farms and incentives for producers who go green while supporting demand for healthy and sustainable diets. 

A day after the EU’s top court issued a ruling seemingly limiting the Commission’s authority to halt ‘killer acquisitions,’ influential think tank Bruegel said that EU’s competition regulator should have a stronger regulatory strategy reviewing these.

Commissioner hearings in the European Parliament are some way off. Nominations are in but there is no obvious contender for the health portfolio.

EU policy thinktank Bruegel is hosting its annual summit on where legislation should go in the next five years. Check our live updates here for the key takeaways of the day

The United States announced criminal charges on Tuesday (3 September) against Hamas' top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly 7 October attack in southern Israel.

The United States announced criminal charges on Tuesday (3 September) against Hamas' top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly 7 October attack in southern Israel.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about bomb threats targetting Czech and Slovak schools, Turkey and Greece seeking to bypass the Bulgarian transport chaos, and so much more.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about bomb threats targetting Czech and Slovak schools, Turkey and Greece seeking to bypass the Bulgarian transport chaos, and so much more.

Nicaragua's regime-aligned Congress approved a law Tuesday (3 September) empowering domestic courts to pass rulings against people and entities abroad that are found to promote sanctions against the internationally criticized government.