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The German government is spending heavily to attract promising industries onto its soil, pledging to match subsidies to entice solar panel supply chain companies to build their factories in economically weaker regions of the country.

Few things get EU lawmakers more agitated than debates over how many of them should sit in Parliament and from which country. This bunfight crops up every few years, but this time, there is more room for haggling than usual....

A working trip to escape Brussels’ hot weather – and even hotter political debates – ended up with the discovery of the bitter truth: it ain’t easy to get rid of what we are discussing pretty much every day here.

The German parliament on Friday (23 June) rejected a motion by left-wing opposition Die Linke (Left) to renegotiate the EU-Mercosur trade agreement after the French national assembly adopted such a call last week. The EU-Mercosur association agreement faces criticism from...

EU foreign ministers on Monday (26 June) will endorse the already politically approved €3.5 billion second top-up of the European Peace Facility (EPF) after months of negotiations.

As a new European report pushes for greater communication of cannabis use risks, France is banking on a policy of prohibition, the effectiveness of which remains to be proven. 

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Developing countries will be the first victims of the dangers of climate change, facing a threat that affects the rest of the world, too. Political will is the most important weapon in our arsenal to tackle this issue, writes Alain-Richard Donwahi. 

Senegal struck a deal with wealthier countries on Thursday (22 June) that will see it get an initial €2.5 billion in finance to develop renewable energy and speed up its transition to a low-carbon economy.

A growing ‘change of philosophy’ in animal welfare is studying how to promote positive indicators - such as satisfaction - instead of simply preventing animals from having negative experiences, according to expert Antonio Velarde.

An auditing company empowered by the European Union to verify sustainable fuel has suspended the certification of three Chinese biofuel exporters after an audit found the precise source of their waste products from Malaysia and Indonesia could not be verified.

The EU's top tech enforcer warned Elon Musk on Thursday (22 June) that Twitter must have enough resources to moderate dangerous content by August 25 or risk being in violation of the bloc's landmark rules to rein in big tech.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the European Games in Poland banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating, a Portuguese MEP confident that EU-Mercosur will be adopted before year's end, and so much more.

The European Parliament’s recently adopted position on the AI Act includes requirements for foundation models. Kevin Klyman and Rishi Bommasani from the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models & Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence have published a preliminary assessment...

As final talks on the EU’s buildings directive kick off in Brussels, advocates of an ambitious reform are warning against a repeat of Germany’s boiler war that risks hindering ambitious climate action.

Romania quickly followed Moldova in condemning possible Russian threats to a bridge connecting Moldova and Romania announced by Kherson’s self-proclaimed pro-Russian governor. In a video recording, the Russian representative in Kherson, Vladimir Salido, asserted that Russia could target the bridge...

Arrests, investigations and interrogations continue in Albania following a massive police operation that saw hundreds of officers raid the compound of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK) this week, resulting in one death, scores of injuries, and a complex...

Those responsible for war crimes in Kosovo must be brought to justice, said Minister of Internal Affairs Xhelal Svecla following the arrest of an ethnic Serb who was a prison guard during the 1998-1999 Kosovo-Serbia war. Svecla said the arrest...

Russia has formed special groups to collect and hide bodies of people killed in the aftermath of the breach this month of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday (22 June).

The embassies of Ukraine and the US to Bulgaria condemned the comments Sonya Momchilova, chairperson of the Electronic Media Council (EMC), recently made about the Bucha mass killings, saying it was propaganda. Speaking on the “Counter-commentary” broadcast on YouTube at...