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SpaceX launched its third crew to the International Space Station an hour before sunrise Friday (23 April), recycling a rocket and spacecraft for the first time.

The European Commission has urged caution about the expiry date marking of highly perishable food after multinational food concern Danone announced plans to get rid of the 'use by' reference for its dairy products.

The French government called Friday (23 April) for a quick implementation of a post-Brexit accord on mutual access to fishing waters, after French fishermen blocked trucks trying to bring in catches from Britain overnight.

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania will expel several Russian diplomats and embassy employees in solidarity with Prague, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis announced during a joint press conference on Friday (23 April). EURACTIV’s media partner LRT.lt reports.

The various COVID-19 related lockdowns and closures of the EU's borders have reduced mobility, particularly of migrants, making the job of the EU's border and coast guard agency Frontex more difficult. EURACTIV France reports.

Chad began funeral ceremonies on Friday (23 April) for veteran ruler Idriss Deby Itno, a key figure in the fight against the Sahel's jihadist insurgency, as France and regional allies voiced backing for his son and successor, Mahamat Idriss Deby.

Since 19 April,  PCR test results in France have been authenticated using a QR code and officially certified within the "Tous AntiCovid" application, which should also integrate vaccination certificates from 29 April.

While the EU's most populous countries are recording the most overall COVID-19-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Bulgaria had the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths in relation to their populations during the same period. EURACTIV France reports.

Kazakhstan has joined the select number of countries that have produced and made available their own COVID-19 vaccine, as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev tweeted on Friday (23 April) that the first batch of QazVac vaccine had been despatched to several regions of the country. 

Italian MEP Isabella Adinolfi is to join Christian-democrat European People's Party (EPP) adding to the long list of lawmakers who have left the parliamentary delegation of the Italian anti-establishment party Five Star Movement.

The European commissioner for energy, Kadri Simson, said on Thursday (22 April) that member states should take advantage of the European Union's historic €1.8 trillion budget and recovery fund to invest in energy efficiency.

Chancellor Angela Merkel will be asked by German lawmakers on Friday (23 April) why she lobbied for payments company Wirecard just months before it collapsed in the country's biggest post-war fraud.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Slovakia expelling three Russian diplomats as relations between Russia and the Czech Republic have been de-escalating in recent days, Huawei challenging Sweden's telecom regulator in court, and so much more.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has rejected a redrawing of borders in the Western Balkans along ethnic lines and the idea has been “put back into a drawer”. Speaking during a joint press conference with Kosovan President Vjosa Osmani, Maas reiterated...

Yuri Kim, US ambassador in Albania, announced that the power distribution operator OSHEE guaranteed to her that the power supply would remain stable all over the country during election day on 25 April. “I learned from OSHEE today their plans...

The European Commission has told Romanian authorities that irrigation works could not be funded by the Recovery and Resilience Facility and that the government allocated too large a share of the fund to transport infrastructure. The government set aside investments...

Europe will apply its emissions trading scheme to buildings and transport, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told a summit of world leaders on Thursday (22 April), setting the stage for the EU’s planned overhaul of its carbon market.

Serbia wants to establish stronger relations with the Bosniaks and Croats, and not only with the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in Banjaluka on Thursday, at the official visit by the Serbian delegation in the...

Slovenia expects to spend between €21-27 billion to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in line with EU targets on climate neutrality. Under the long-term climate strategy adopted by the Slovenian government this week, the country must cut greenhouse...