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European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides have “completely failed” in the way they handled the COVID-19 vaccine contracts with the pharmaceutical industry, MEP Dimitirs Papadimoulis has said.

Vaccine battle could do widespread harm, Dutch riots spark national alarm, and new Estonian Prime Minister takes over with charm.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Portuguese citizens banned from travelling outbound for two weeks, large-scale corruption in Bulgaria, and so much more.

Europe’s intention to control the exports of COVID-19 vaccines to foreign countries risks retaliation measures from other regions, the EU pharma industry has warned.

At least four people died Friday after a fire broke out in Romania’s main hospital Matei Bals Hospital in Bucharest treating COVID-19 patients. According to authorities, four patients died and several others were hurt, among the 102 people who were...

MEPs  Tanja Fajon (S&D, Slovenia) and Vladimir Bilčík had a clear mandate and the support of the European Parliament to be mediators in the dialogue between the authorities and opposition in Serbia, Fajon told an online session of the European...

Croatia demanded an apology from Serbia on Thursday after a member of a Serbian delegation referred to Knin – a town in the Adriatic hinterland that had been the seat of the Serb rebellion in 1991 – as “Serbian and...

The European Commission will be informed about the €2.6 billion “black hole of corruption” in Bulgaria’s “Hemus” highway construction project, announced Hristo Ivanov, one of the leaders of the opposition coalition Democratic Bulgaria, which has no seats in parliament, who...

Many of the "green" claims on companies' websites are exaggerated, false and potentially illegal, according to a study of online shops and traders by the European Union and national consumer protection authorities.

The EU's medicines regulator on Thursday (28 January) said it advised medics inject a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine three weeks after the first, amid debate over how much time to leave between the two jabs.

Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič is mulling the reallocation of the recovery plan funds among the different ministries according to the relative power of the coalition parties that control them, thus departing from the distribution envisioned in the government’s draft...

Hungary will grant an emergency authorisation to all jabs that have been used to vaccinate more than one million people worldwide and which have received a permit in accordance with local regulations, Gergely Gulyás, the minister in charge of the...

So much has already been invested in the Nord Stream 2 project that trying to stop it will surely be complicated, MEP Evžen Tošenovský (ECR) told EURACTIV.cz in an interview in reference to the European Parliament’s attempt to stop the...

Thousands of students and teachers gathered in Athens and Thessaloniki and protested against the government’s proposed education reforms to police Greek universities, defying the demonstration ban currently in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. It is estimated that more...

Portugal’s government decided to ban outbound travel by Portuguese citizens for the next two weeks except in exceptional cases. According to Internal Affairs Minister Eduardo Cabrita, the ban aims to “protect national citizens and help reduce contagion. In relation to its size, Portugal has...

Relations between the EU and India, especially in the context of an increasingly influential China, will be the central point of the Portuguese EU presidency, Portugal's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

Spain made clear on Thursday (28 January) it supported the European Union's handling of a shortfall in COVID-19 vaccines after a leaked document suggested the health ministry was blaming Brussels.

Newly elected Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has called for unity among the Baltic States, which should be manifested in synchronised infrastructure projects not only between the three countries but also with a view to Central Europe. Kallas underlined in...

While so far the Belgian government has given no date for the reopening of the food and drink sector, an association of Belgium’s top chefs has said they want to reopen their restaurants on 1 March. The Mastercooks of Belgium...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said Thursday (28 January) his government would announce major anti-graft reforms after it scrapped its controversial passport-for-investment scheme last year.