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Slovakia is buying 2 million Sputnik V vaccines from Russia and expects half to arrive this month and next as it looks to step up vaccinations amid a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths, the prime minister said on Monday.

In any civilisation, one commodity is more precious than the others, and it naturally becomes the bedrock of power. Could be salt, could be gold, could be the US dollar. Now it’s the COVID-19 vaccines.

Ethiopian diplomats have stoked a growing diplomatic feud with the European Union after the bloc’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, and his envoy, Finland’s Pekka Haavisto, harshly criticised the government’s handling of the conflict in the northern Tigray province.

In an unusual move, European Council President Charles Michel invited Georgia's ruling and opposition parties for talks under his mediation over dinner during his visit to Tbilisi on Monday (1 March).

Portugal's agriculture minister Maria do Céu Antunes will convene by the end of March a joint negotiation meeting with all the three European parliament's rapporteurs to bring about a breakthrough in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) talks.

Until last week, the provincial town of Pokrov outside Moscow, lined with Soviet-era residential blocks and teetering wooden homes, had only one claim to fame: a monument to chocolate.

Hungary's agriculture ministry has launched a scathing attack on the Greens/EFA political group after the publication of a damning report detailing the misuse of EU farming subsidy money in the country. 

Banks in the European Union should publish a "green asset ratio" (GAR) as a core measure of their climate-friendly business activities, the EU's banking watchdog proposed on Monday (1st March).

Europe's current economic model "has no future" and does not respond to "major environmental challenges", Portugal's prime minister António Costa said on Friday, calling for the adoption of new models such as the circular economy and sustainable bioeconomy.

Europe’s drug regulator is auditing the manufacturing site of the Serum Institute of India (SII), a source with knowledge of the matter said, a necessary step before AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine made there can be exported to the bloc.

Dozens of Hong Kong dissidents were charged with subversion on Sunday (28 February) in the largest use yet of Beijing's sweeping new national security law, as authorities seek to cripple the financial hub's democracy movement.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatening to leave the EPP political group, Finland enters a three-week partial lockdown, and so much more.

Myanmar security forces opened fire on protestors Sunday (28 February), killing at least eight in the bloodiest action so far to smother opposition to the military coup four weeks ago.

Russia was interfering in the region in bad faith and striving to avert a deal since the very beginning of the Belgrade-Priština dialogue, Kosovo’s foreign ministry said on Sunday. Kosovo’s ministry responded to a photo posted by Russian foreign ministry...

The European Union is likely to waive limits on government borrowing again in 2022, given persistent uncertainties about the pace of economic recovery once the coronavirus pandemic is contained, officials say.

830 business people and nearly 550 local and international companies have used Serbia’s simplified entry procedure that allows them to enter the country without a PCR test, the Serbian Chamber of Commerce announced on Saturday.  Business people travelling to Serbia...

The first infection with the South African coronavirus strain has been confirmed in Slovenia, Health Minister Janez Poklukar has said. The patient is a doctor from Maribor who stayed in Namibia last week with several other persons from Slovenia and...

The sudden death of Milan Bandić, Zagreb’s Mayor for an uninterrupted 20 years and a controversial figure, is likely to have quite an impact on the country’s politics and has thrown the mayoral race in this spring’s local elections wide...

Bulgaria will miss the start of Poseidon 21, the first NATO multinational naval exercise of 2021, after a group of its sailors were infected with the coronavirus. The exercises, organised by the Romanian Naval Forces (FNR) and to be held...

Vetëvendosje leader and Kosovo’s Prime-Minister designate Albin Kurti, whose party won the 14 February election, has received two letters regarding Pristina’s decision to open its embassy in Jerusalem: one from Israel, and one from Turkey. In his letter to Kurti,...