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Nations from the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa agreed steps on Sunday (23 July) to try to slow unauthorised migration and to tackle some of the pressures driving people to leave their homes and attempt to reach Europe.

The possibility of a right-wing governing coalition between Partido Popular, Sunday's election's winner with 136 seats, and Vox with 33 seats, faded away as they fell short 7 seats of the 176 seats needed for an absolute majority.

A wildfire which has been raging on the Greek island of Rhodes for five days forced hundreds of people to flee affected villages and beaches by land and sea on Saturday (22 July), authorities said.

Spain heads to the polls on Sunday (23 July) in a potentially close-run general election marked by ideological differences, the spectre of the far-right and irritation at being forced to vote during the summer holidays.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Saturday (22 July) renewed an attack on the European Union for conducting what he called an "LGBTQ offensive", saying his nationalist government would protect the country's Christian roots.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday (21 July) that the bridge linking the Crimea peninsula to Russia "brings war not peace" and was therefore a military target.

President Vladimir Putin on Friday (21 July) accused NATO member Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union, and said any aggression against Russia's neighbour and close ally Belarus would be considered an attack on Russia.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned Friday (21 July) of the risk of a new war with Azerbaijan, accusing Baku of "genocide" in the breakaway Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Spanish election campaign, as expected, has been a constant crossfire of accusations and dirty narratives, especially between Alberto Nunez Feijoo, candidate of the conservative opposition Partido Popular (PP), and current socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.  “Your corruption cases are...

The energy crisis triggered by Russia's war in Ukraine is taking its toll on EU citizens, with 9.3% of the population unable to keep their homes adequately warm in 2022, a jump from 6.9% the year before, according to Eurostat. 

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Commission greenlighting funding worth €2 billion for Germany's ailing mailing system, with right-wingers bemoaning now-former EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans leaving Brussels to join the national election race, and so much more.

Ukraine's central bank said it will nationalise Russian-owned Sense Bank, one of the country's top commercial banks, and put it under temporary administration on Friday (21 July).

Spanish new Sumar party has opened the door for all left-wing forces to work together ahead of Spanish and EU elections, paving the way for the European Greens to boost their political weight.

Britain's government reacted angrily Thursday (20 July) after the European Union used the Argentine term for the Falkland Islands, the territory over which the two countries fought a war in 1982.

Tensions rose in Bulgaria’s capital after Ukrainian website Myrotvorets added Bulgarian policymakers to their blacklist of enemies, while President Rumen Radev, as well as three parliamentary forces – pro-European GERB and pro-Russian Vazrazhdane and the Bulgarian Socialist Party, demanded the...

Serbia was hit by a strong storm that carried roofs and uprooted trees Wednesday, resulting in the evacuation of 40 people and the hospitalisation of others. Most of Serbia was affected by the storm, which was commented on social networks...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu asked the new labour minister to suspend the heads of the County Agencies for Payments and Social Inspection in the counties where care homes were found operating with serious irregularities after investigation bodies opened 47 criminal...

Greece’s independent Data Protection Authority announced on Thursday that more than 350 SMS related to the Predator spyware programme have been sent and 92 people have been spotted as “targets”.

Russian state prosecutors on Thursday (20 July) asked a court to sentence jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny to a further 20 years in a penal colony on criminal charges, including extremism, at the close of his trial, his supporters said.

The European Commission has contacted Slovakia regarding the late introduction of EU directives, including ornamental and fruit plant health, organic varieties of agricultural plants, and the adjustment of the conditions of defence industry transfers within the EU. Slovakia, as well...