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Africa's new energy projects will help boost the continent's economic development, as well as its transition to cleaner energy, writes Kwaku Boakye-Adjei.

EU antitrust enforcers have claimed a court made legal errors when it scrapped their order for iPhone maker Apple to pay 13 billion euros in Irish back taxes, in a filing to have the verdict overturned. The stakes are high...

Europe is still reeling from the pandemic’s effects and many countries are battling a third wave. Digital technologies have been proven to be essential in the crisis and are rightly viewed as a way to reinvent Europe’s economy after COVID....

The citizens' rights watchdog set up to protect the rights of EU nationals living in the UK is conducting its first survey to understand the level of public concern about living in Britain after Brexit.

The European Commission on Monday (1 February) said it will need to tap into the EU budget margins this year – around €1.5 billion – to monitor progress made with vaccination campaigns, finance pharmacovigilance studies, and fight against the new variants of COVID-19.

The European Commission is under tremendous pressure. It is struggling to make sure that companies that produce vaccines, for which it has paid €2.7 billion in advance and with which it has signed contracts, stop sending their vaccines elsewhere, harming the interests of the Europeans.

There can be no return to business as usual after the pandemic and no amount of economic pressure should force us to compromise on people’s health and the health of our planet, Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius said in an interview about...

From climate hazards and COVID-19 to protests for racial justice and the rise of identity politics – the past year has left a mark on the young generation. The effects of the pandemic particularly affect young people, they exacerbate existing...

Cohesion policy is the most powerful tool at the EU's disposal for the fight against climate change, but border regions and islands need additional expertise to successfully implement the green transition, experts in Croatia have said.

China launched a carbon trading system designed to drive down greenhouse gas emissions on Monday (1 February), as the world's biggest polluter takes steps towards decarbonising its economy by 2060.

Remarks on establishing a reliable supply of therapies, the urgent need to increase plasma collection across the EU, and the impact of the COVID-19 on the plasma donation system (as of October 2020), presented at the Global Plasma Summit.

Participants at Libya’s UN-sponsored peace talks have approved a list of candidates seeking to lead a transitional government that will prepare the North African state for a national election at the end of 2021, the United Nations said.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the four Italian MEPs who were stopped at the Croatian-Bosnian border, COVID-protests in Austria, and so much more.

Germany's government on Sunday (31 January) threatened legal action against laboratories failing to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the European Union on schedule, amid tension over delays to deliveries from AstraZeneca.

Britain said it is to apply to join a massive 11-nation free-trade bloc of Asia-Pacific countries this week, not long after quitting the European Union's single market.

The Russian embassy in Bulgaria reacted sharply against criticism by a US diplomat in Sofia about corruption in the country. “We noticed the recent statement by colleagues from the US Embassy in Bulgaria about the inability and lack of political...

The squabbling parties in Italy's outgoing coalition will hold further detailed talks on forming a new government on Monday (1 February), a senior lawmaker brokering the negotiations said.

“We’ll have very important talks for Serbia, with themes ranging from Kosovo through Serbia’s accession to the EU to a new subway in Belgrade,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić wrote in an Instagram post while travelling to Paris on Sunday. His...

Croatia has the sovereign right to declare an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Adriatic Sea, the chairman of BiH’s inter-ethnic three-man presidency, Milorad Dodik, said on Saturday, adding that this would not deny the rights of BiH. Dodik’s statement...

Hundreds of people protested in front of the health ministry headquarters, demanding healthcare reform and the resignation of the health minister, following a fire that killed five people in a Bucharest hospital. The government promised a quick investigation into the...