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The European Union called out China on Saturday (24 April) for endangering peace in the South China Sea and urged all parties to abide by a 2016 tribunal ruling which rejected most of China's claim to sovereignty in the sea, but which Beijing has rejected.

“We are saying goodbye to the coal age,” Greece’s energy state secretary told EURACTIV following last week's announcement that the country’s last lignite plant will be shut down in 2025, three years earlier than planned.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about EU leaders being urged to commit to ending homelessness by 2030 at Porto Social summit, Croatia's president saying his country's national recovery plan is "insufficiently transparent", and so much more.

European Union leaders will hold a face-to-face summit in Brussels on 25 May to discuss the coronavirus crisis, the battle against climate change and tensions with Russia, a spokesman said.

All aspects of the EU’s relationship with Turkey should introduce the question of democratic conditionality, a leading MEP has told EURACTIV. “The Council is obliged by our treaties to stand for our values. This is not only the role of...

“In honouring the memory of those who fought for freedom, we must also remember that we, Italians, were not all ‘good people’,” Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Sunday, the day Italy celebrated its 76th anniversary since 1946, the...

The publisher of the newspaper Documento, Costas Vaxevanis, has said on social media there is a death contract out against him. The claim comes two weeks after Greek society was shocked when Giorgos Karaivaz, a well-known Greek journalist covering police-related...

The future of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s (SDP) five-party government was hanging in the balance Sunday evening, after last week’s mid-term policy review session and negotiations on the 2022–2025 budget brought the centre-left coalition to the brink of collapse....

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has accused Sinn Féin of “covering their tracks” and “flailing about” after party leader Mary Lou McDonald admitted it was in breach of privacy legislation. “One gets the sense of flailing about the place, covering...

The UK and Australian trade ministers say that they are on the brink of agreeing a new trade deal. UK International Trade minister Liz Truss and Australian counterpart Dan Tehan revealed on Friday that they had finalised “the vast majority”...

Germany’s finance minister and Social Democrat chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz has attacked the Green candidate Annalena Baerbock for lacking political experience, describing himself as better placed to lead Europe’s largest economy. “Germany is one of the world’s biggest and most...

More than a hundred European personalities urged several European leaders in an open letter published Friday to commit to ending homelessness in the EU by 2030 when they meet at the Porto Social Summit which is set to take place...

The European Commission’s final audit report regarding the conflict of interest allegations levelled against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Friday has triggered a heated reaction from the PM himself. “It is scandalous that some Brussels officer dares to interpret...

Albania’s Socialist Party (PS) is projected to have won the country’s parliamentary election with 46.9% of the vote, translating to 71 seats in parliament. The opposition Democratic Party (DP) has won 43,5% of the vote, translating to 63 seats, according...

The number of Covid-19 jabs administered globally surpassed the one billion mark on Saturday (24 April), offering hope even as the number of virus cases worldwide hit a new daily record mainly due to an explosion of infections in India.

“The recent presentation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan was insufficiently transparent and that is problematic,” Croatian President Zoran Milanović said on Saturday, adding that the public lacks precise information about how the EU funds will be spent.  “That...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić began a two-day visit to Brussels on Sunday with a meeting with Miroslav Lajčak, the EU’s special representative for the Belgrade-Priština dialogue. Vučić is scheduled to have separate meetings on Monday with top EU officials, European...

The GERB party of Bulgaria’s former prime minister, Boyko Borissov, has refused to form a government, meaning Bulgarian President Rumen Radev must now make a proposal to the second political party in line, the “There is Such a People” party...

The Slovenian government has suffered a major defeat in parliament as a much-maligned merger of eight regulators into two mega-agencies was rejected by MPs, raising fresh doubts about its ability to push through tough new laws. The bill, which was...

Poland’s largest opposition party Civic Platform (PO) has presented a foreign policy programme called ‘Safe Poland’ at a Warsaw conference by PO leader Borys Budka and former Foreign Minister and now-MEP Radosław Sikorski. The pillars of the ‘Safe Poland’ programme...