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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday (21 August) landed in Athens for an official visit, the Greek prime minister's office said, and would later join an informal dinner with EU and Balkans leaders.

The writer of this Brief has spent most of the summer at the Bulgarian seaside, which is crowded with Russians and Ukrainian beachgoers. The image is surreal: although coming from two countries at war, these people are just here to enjoy life.

European Commission officials have launched an investigation into biodiesel imports following suspicions that Indonesian biodiesel is transiting through China and the United Kingdom in a bid to circumvent taxes.

With less than a year until next June’s European elections much depends on the answer to one question: will Ursula von der Leyen seek a second term as European Commission President?

Europe’s industrial policy will need to be upgraded to ensure resilience, competitiveness and compatibility with the bloc’s climate targets. Governments should focus on innovation, ‘green’ elements, and cooperation for a smart industrial policy, write Simone Tagliapetra and Reinhilde Veugelers. 

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about two in three Germans saying tthe country would benefit from a change in government, Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev being viewed as a risk to Bulgaria's future in the EU, and so much more.

With the European elections around the corner, it is crunch time for determining the legacy of the Green Deal for agriculture and food policy, as lawmakers scramble to rescue the climate-protecting credentials of this legislative mandate.

Agriculture Minister Jozef Bíreš will ask the European Commission to change rules on buffer strips, which separate single-crop fields to protect soil and promote biodiversity, but a summer ban on landscaping has left them overgrown with allergens and invasive plant...

EU top chiefs and Western Balkans leaders will have an informal dinner on Monday in Athens following an invitation by the Greek prime minister, but Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was not invited amid a growing row between Athens and...

The Czech Republic is facing the biggest turning point in its modern history as it has exhausted all previous growth drivers, lost its competitive advantages and fallen into the so-called middle-income trap, a new study has found. The study on...

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing party Fratelli d’Italia (FDI/ECR) is in crisis facing public opinion over the Vannacci case, which involves General Roberto Vannacci, who has been widely criticised for the homophobic, racist and sexist positions he took in his...

Violent protests and clashes between demonstrators and police erupted in the suburbs of Liège over the weekend after a 31-year-old driver was shot and killed by police on Friday. The first demonstrations took place on Friday night after the 31-year-old...

Former conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) has been charged with perjury following allegations that he may have been lying to a parliamentary investigation panel in a corruption affair over the appointments to state holding company ÖBAG. ÖBAG, the Austrian state...

China must do everything it can to convince Russia to end its invasion of Ukraine and strengthen global food security, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in a telephone conversation. China has been urged by...

Germany would benefit from a change in government, according to 64% of Germans who responded to a new poll as the country’s three-way coalition kicked off the second semester with a new round of infighting. Polling institute INSA interviewed respondents...

Thousands more people were evacuated from their homes on the Spanish island of Tenerife on 19 August as a wildfire raging in the north remained out of control, but the flames have so far avoided major tourist areas.

Record numbers of Italian tourists in Albania this summer have led to tensions on both sides of the Adriatic, while an impromptu visit by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni smoothed the waters with talks of cooperation and nuclear power, and...

Seven ethnic Serbs have resigned from their positions in the Kosovo police in the last few days, prompting President Vjosa Osmani to denounce the influence of Belgrade, which she said is behind the action. The police officers resigned over the...

Canada is sending the military to tackle fast-spreading wildfires in British Columbia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday (20 August), as the western province deals with flames that have led to evacuation orders for more than 35,000 people.

Romanian far-right leader George Simion has criticised the deal Romania struck with Ukraine on Friday to double the volume of grain transit from Ukraine, claiming the decision was either an act of treason or plain stupid. On Friday, Shmyhal and...