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A citizens’ initiative supported by half a million Poles regarding the return of a state-funded in vitro fertilisation (IVF) programme is dividing lawmakers as infertility is increasingly becoming a problem.

Sandwiched between two major conflicts – Russia’s war in Ukraine to its east and the conflict in Gaza to its south – the EU needs much unity at home. Sorting out Schengen, the border-free area, could be a good way...

The EU should put the political above the institutional logic and learn how to be a player, not just a payer. The next Commission should consolidate and simplify Global Gateway, scale up financing, and designate a senior Commissioner tasked with repositioning Europe in the network of global value chains, writes Romana Vlahutin.

With the current proposal for overhauling the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), the EU executive pushes for more concentration on farming by treating agriculture as an industry, the three MEPs leading the file write.

Pharmaceutical companies may be gradually improving at notifying drug shortages to the Swedish Medical Products Agency on time, but delays are still common and the agency is now examining suspected violations, which could result in fines of up to almost €9 million.

US, European and Ukrainian police have arrested a ringleader of a notorious hacker gang operating from Ukraine which used ransomware to fleece hundreds of millions of euros from their victims, Europol said Tuesday (28 November).

Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are organic compounds containing fluorine that do not degrade. Consequently, they are sometimes referred to as ‘forever chemicals’. There are thousands of specific PFAS, with a range of consumer and industrial uses. As part of...

NATO and Ukraine are expected to sign off Kyiv’s reform to-do list for future NATO accession on Wednesday (29 November), despite divisions over the process and reluctance from the US and Germany. “We will agree on recommendations for Ukraine’s priority...

Amid worries over institutional deadlock, the 57-member Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) agreed on Monday (27 November) that Malta should take over the organisation’s rotating chairmanship after Russia barred Estonia from the task. The eleventh-hour deal comes...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay his third wartime visit to the Middle East this week, a US official said Monday (27 November), just as mediators announced an extension of a truce in Gaza.

The head of Niger's military regime has repealed a law which criminalised the trafficking of migrants through the nation, a hub for those seeking to reach Europe via neighbouring Libya and Algeria, the government announced late Monday (27 November).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Serbian government reaching an agreement with farmers following months of blockades, the EPP warning the Spanish prime minister that the controversial amnesty law may cost them EU funding, and so much more.

Negotiations on the first part of the EU's new gas and hydrogen market rules have been concluded, paving the way for investments into new infrastructure amid a special carve-out for Germany's municipal utilities.

Romania’s Interior Ministry announced the dismissal of Border Police chief Victor Ștefan Ivașcu and the appointment of a new head of the Maramureș County Police Inspectorate after Baia Mare Mayor Cătălin Cherecheș fled the country hours before a court sentenced...

The European Parliament and Member States can still prevent an unnecessary own goal in a high-stakes game over standard-essential patents.

Athens and London are facing an unexpected diplomatic crisis after UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelled a last-minute meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the latter’s comments about the need to return Elgin Marbles – currently in the...

Farmers who have been blocking roads in Vojvodina and other parts of Serbia since May over unmet demands from the Agriculture Ministry have agreed to measures with the government and promised to end the blockades. Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić,...

Slovak Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok filed a criminal complaint Monday alleging that police officers who investigated current Smer MP Tibor Gašpar should not have been granted whistleblower status as his decision to suspend them could cost Slovakia up to...

The proposal for a new PiS-led government, in which more than half of the new ministers are women and many are new faces, was unveiled by Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday but risks losing a vote of confidence for lack of...

The President of the European Council Charles Michel met Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest on Monday (27 November) in a bid to ease rising tensions, with the increasingly belligerent Hungarian leader threatening to block key decisions on Ukraine.