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With the EU Green Deal in place, the role of natural and renewable gases for transport decarbonisation must be recognized. Gas in transport is ready to complement a set of solutions that will gradually change our way to move and to transport freights around the world.

Climate change has provoked an unprecedented response from the international community in recent years. However, as industry becomes greener, the working lives of Europeans will change, writes Nicolas Schmit

Most Chinese, Europeans and US citizens plan to fly less for holidays this year to limit aircraft CO2 emissions and help prevent catastrophic climate change, a survey by the European Investment Bank (EIB) showed on Tuesday (14 January).

For the first time in the 15-year history of the Davos risk report, the top five global risks are all environmental, according to the latest survey published on Wednesday (15 January) ahead of the World Economic Forum next week.

Operation Barkhane was supposed to be France’s contribution to ridding jihadists from the Sahel region, one of its main spheres of influence in Africa. But instead, President Emmanuel Macron is increasingly isolated – both in Africa and in Europe.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out about far-right VOX suing the European Parliament for accepting Catalan separatist leaders as MEPs, how Poland's PiS fared in the polls, the climate action call to the Croatian government made by scientists, and so much more.

Romanian social-democrats are protesting against a potential change in the electoral law to allow two-round votes in the election of mayors. PSD, which recently lost power following a no-confidence vote against its government, are saying the plans of the centre-right...

Scientists file climate appeal. On Tuesday (14 January), representatives of 550 Croatian scientists filed an appeal calling on the government, the prime minister, parliament and the environment and energy ministry to take immediate action and declare the climate crisis as an...

The Institute of Economics of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies published a new wave of data related to public education in Hungary. While expenditure per student is increasing and reaching Western levels at upper secondary education, the country’s...

37.3% of the Polish population support the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, while 26.9% back the largest opposition block (KO), according to a poll conducted by the IBRiS Market and Social Research Institute based in Warsaw.  With presidential elections...

The Irish general election will be held on Saturday 8 February, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has announced. President Michael D Higgins has been instructed to dissolve Parliament while campaigning gets underway in the Republic.  Speaking outside government buildings on Tuesday, Varadkar...

In its latest research dating from 2018, Transparency International ranked Finland as the third least corrupt country in the world, after Denmark and New Zealand. But a new survey from December 2019 will raise a few eyebrows abroad. It certainly...

Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon (N-VA), in charge of cultural policies, has announced the granting of just over €4 million in subsidies for cultural projects in Flanders, after initially only €3.4 million were to be distributed in two phases. The  measure,...

Kazakhstan and Belarus will discuss an oil supply deal before 20 January, Kazakhstan Energy Minister Nurlan Nogayev told reporters on Wednesday (15 January), without explaining the significance of that date.

While a ban on headscarves for schoolgirls under 14 had already been agreed after the Greens reluctantly agreed to the conservative ÖVP’s proposal, the suggestion to also include teachers in the ban was quickly rejected by the Greens. Vice-Chancellor and...

It did not take long for the German government to react to European Commission President von der Leyen’s call for member states to provide additional financing to the EU budget for the European Green Deal. Yesterday afternoon (14 January), Germany’s...

In an interview with EURACTIV France, socialist MEP Pierre Larrouturou deplored the meagre €7.5 billion proposed in the European Commission's Just Transition Fund. To finance EU climate action, he suggests some of the ECB's "easy money" could fuel the European Investment Bank (EIB) instead of going into private banks.

Spanish far-right party Vox announced on Tuesday (14 January) in Strasbourg that it is suing the European Parliament for having recognised fugitive Catalan separatist leaders Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comin as MEPs.  VOX leader Santiago Abascal argued that EU Parliament...

Democrats in the US House of Representatives said on Tuesday (14 January) they would include new evidence when they send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday, seeking to expand the scope of a trial that will dominate Washington for the next several weeks.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday (15 January) Moscow has been urging Gulf countries to consider a common security mechanism for the region and it was time the world got rid of unilateral measures such as sanctions.