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Editorial word: A new chair for the public health committee By Clara Bauer-Babef  EU lawmakers from the European Parliament’s subcommittee on public health (SANT) on Tuesday morning (28 November) elected their new chair: Polish MEP Adam Jarubas (EPP), to replace...

No agreement was reached between the Italian government and the main trade unions – CGIL, CISL, UIL and UGL – regarding the 2024 at the Palazzo Chigi on Tuesday, which means the general strike of 15 December will go ahead....

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights grew from the ashes of the Second World War and has always been a universal concept. Seventy-five years later it is as important as it was at its creation, writes Udo Bullmann. MEP Udo...

Ahead of this year's COP28 climate summit in Dubai, UN agencies have released several reports offering updates on global progress in limiting climate change. This article sums up the most important findings.

Turkey froze the local assets of 20 organisations and 62 individuals based in various European countries, Australia and Japan, citing alleged ties with Kurdish militant group PKK, a decision published in the Official Gazette showed on Wednesday (29 November).

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about France's plan to ban disposable e-cigarettes, central European countries forming a working group to tackle migration, and so much more.

Russia's Internal Affairs ministry is preparing a bill that would oblige foreigners entering the country to sign a "loyalty agreement" that would bar them from discrediting official policies, the TASS state news agency reported early on Wednesday (29 November).

Bulgaria plans to digitise prescriptions for all medicines by the end of 2024, the health ministry announced after the initial success of e-prescriptions, which managed to reduce the use of antibiotics by nearly 30% in a short period.

Worsening mental health conditions and rising suicide attempt rates in young people combined with inaccessibility, lack of psychiatric beds, and unmet timely care are weighing down on Slovak youth.

Germany’s residential grid operators will be empowered to restrict the flow of power to heat pumps and electric vehicle (EV) chargers from 2024 in order to preserve the stability of the grid, which is suffering from chronic underinvestment.

Hamas and Israel were expected to release more hostages and prisoners on Wednesday (29 November), the last day of a prolonged six-day truce in the Gaza Strip conflict, as attention focused on whether mediator Qatar could negotiate another extension.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to cancel a last-minute meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the latter’s comments on Parthenon marbles currently in the British Museum has hurt his public image, according to a survey released on...

France will ban the selling of single-use e-cigarettes by 2025, French Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau announced on Tuesday during a National Tobacco Control Program (PNLT) presentation, while increasing tobacco taxation. Teenage use of electronic cigarettes, including puffs (those colourful single-use...

Romania’s Schengen accession will not be subject to a vote during the Justice and Home Affairs Council’s (JHA) meeting on 5 December, according to political sources cited by News.ro. During the upcoming JHA Council next week, the discussion on Romania...

Slovakia must pay €3,000 to a girl who could not participate in distance learning due to insufficient access to the internet, according to a court ruling in Prešov on Tuesday in what the pupil’s lawyers claim is Europe’s first digital...

Interior ministers from Germany, Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary have agreed to create a joint working group to tackle illegal immigration to the region during a meeting in Hungary on Monday. The joint working group will consist of officers...

Portugal’s hydrogen project in Sines was selected as one of the cross-border energy initiatives eligible to apply for EU financial support because they are in line with the Green Deal, according to a list published by the EU Commission on Tuesday.

The EU said Tuesday (28 November) that a team of election observers sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of 20 December polls cannot spread out around the country because of "security reasons".

Urgent action to address the country’s childcare ‘emergency’ is being called for as Germany is more than 400,000 nursery spots short of meeting demand, according to a new study published on Tuesday. The study, published by the Bertelsmann Foundation, found...