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French opposition members have hit out at the government's efforts to rein in electricity prices as part of EU talks to reform the bloc's power market, saying the executive will be judged during the 2024 European elections.

As members of the European Parliament prepare to vote on their position on the proposed EU law to ban products made with forced labour from the EU market, they reiterated their call on member states to accelerate their negotiations.

European Union countries' climate ministers meet on Monday to decide the bloc's negotiating position for this year's COP28 summit – but they are still split over some key issues, like how hard to push for a global deal to phase out fossil fuels.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday (15 October) that the Biden administration hopes to push a new weapons package for Israel and Ukraine through Congress that will be significantly higher than $2 billion.

Lawmakers made headway during a marathon negotiating session on Friday (13 October) to overhaul the EU’s buildings directive, but progress came at the cost of the proposal’s core mechanism to introduce mandatory renovation benchmarks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United States' two biggest strategic competitors.

In today's edition of Capitals, the German opposition is urging Chancellor Olaf Scholz to put pressure on the Commission over the migration issue, Italy is turning to Arab countries to rescue hostages held by Hamas, and more.

Efforts to coax Serbia into the arms of the West instead of China and Russia have not yielded results and it is time to wake up to a new approach, former US ambassador to Kosovo, Philip Kossnett, told Euractiv in an interview.

The director of the Serbian Office for Kosovo, Petar Petković, accused Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti of lying to the European Union and the United States but has not substantiated his claims. Elections in four municipalities in northern Kosovo remain a...

Romania has initiated efforts to evacuate its citizens from the Gaza Strip, with some 200 Romanian nationals requesting assistance from the authorities in Bucharest to leave the area. The crisis management team of Romania’s Foreign Ministry has taken action to...

The technocratic Foreign Minister, Miroslav Wlachovský, has mentioned the expulsion of a person with “diplomatic cover” who tried to influence Slovakia’s election results in Russia’s favour, in what former defence minister Jaroslav Naď called “the tip of the iceberg”. Wlachovský...

An individual lawsuit filed by German lawmaker René Repasi against the European Commission over the EU finance taxonomy could result in the right to sue for every EU lawmaker, and possibly shake the European Union's legal framework to its core.

The Czech Pirate Party, part of the country’s ruling coalition, has warned against the European Commission’s proposal aimed at curbing child sexual abuse online, claiming that it introduces blanket control over private online conversations. The Commission’s proposal includes measures that...

The head of the European Free Alliance (EFA) list for the upcoming European elections, Raül Romeva, called on the European Union on Saturday to prepare for a possible future “internal enlargement” in which “stateless nations” of the current member states...

Israel is carrying out a “planned genocide” in the Gaza Strip by leaving hundreds of thousands of people without water and electricity and demanding their evacuation without any security guarantees, stressed Ione Belarra, leader of the left-wing Unidas Podemos party,...

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government is using Italy’s good relations with several Arab countries to persuade them to pressure Hamas to release the hostages, with a first meeting with Jordan’s King scheduled for Monday in Rome. Jordan’s King Abdullah II...

The Public Prosecutor’s Office fined four Dutch companies and eight individuals on Friday for violating sanctions by participating in the construction of Russia’s Crimean Bridge from 2014 to 2017. The investigation began in 2017 after the Dutch newspaper De Gelderlander...

The European Commission, Council and Parliament cannot make promises about enlargement as many of them will no longer be there next year and it will not be their decision to take, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said in an interview.

An Egyptian-controlled border crossing into Gaza is expected to reopen amid diplomatic efforts to get aid into the Hamas-controlled strip that has been under intense Israeli bombing since the group's rampage that killed 1,300 people on 7 October.

The Dutch Labour (PvdA/S&D) and Green (GL/EU Greens) parties tried to show unity at their joint party conference on Saturday after cracks appeared following divergent reactions to the current crisis between Israel and Palestine The party conference took place in...