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A US aircraft carrier group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt entered the South China Sea over the weekend to promote “freedom of the seas” at a time of US concern about China-Taiwan tensions and Beijing asserting its maritime agenda.

Spain’s top general resigned after allegations he had received the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of priority groups, one of a number of public officials who have sparked public anger because of reports they have jumped the vaccination queue.

The Russian ship tasked with completing the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has begun work in waters off Denmark, the company said on Sunday (24 January).

Officials in President Joe Biden’s administration tried to head off Republican concerns that his $1.9 trillion pandemic relief proposal was too expensive on a call with Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

The number of zero-emission trucks on European roads will need to increase from around 2,300 at present to 200,000 by 2030 if the EU's CO2 targets are to be met, truck makers warn.

In today's news from the Capitals, find out more about Italy's TickTock ban, the Danish PM's vision of an 'asylum-free' future, and so much more.

European Union foreign ministers will promote a global phase out of fossil fuels and reaffirm commitments to funding climate adaptation at a meeting on Monday (25 January).

Border restrictions were being tightened around the world Monday (25 January) in the face of an unrelenting coronavirus threat, after a weekend in which anger at social distancing rules bubbled over into fiery clashes in the Netherlands.

A new variant of COVID-19 has arrived in Serbia, President Aleksandar Vučić told Prva TV in an interview in reference to the report of Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar, who confirmed the carrier was a female passenger from London, who presented...

Due to the possibility that the UK COVID-strain is present in Slovenia in larger numbers, the government will look into revising next week its decisions to relax anti-coronavirus restrictions, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša said on Sunday. A new case...

President Zoran Milanović on Friday cancelled his attendance at an event commemorating the 28th anniversary of wartime military and police operation “Maslenica 93” in Zadar after he learned that two persons wearing clothes with Ustasha symbols were participating in the...

After Romania’s health ministry warned against easing restrictions following an outbreak of the UK COVID-19 strain in Bucharest school Friday, the Bucharest committee for emergency situations decided to lift some restrictions, so that theatres, cinemas, restaurants, bars and casinos in...

“Have you considered the termination of the golden visas?” was one of the follow-up questions to the exchange of views between MEPs from the Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group (DRFMG) and Bulgarian authorities held at the...

The grant commission of Slovakia’s labour, social affairs and family ministry has now decided not to allocate funds to organisations that gained the highest score in the evaluation of independent experts, but instead to fund several pro-life organisations, some with...

After submitting a freedom of information request to the prime minister’s office, the human resources ministry, the interior ministry and the foreign ministry, none had taken responsibility for the national vaccination plan as the data controller, socialist MEP István Ujhelyi...

The new Digital Services Act should make judiciary’s role explicit and allow independent courts to decide what should be illegal, European Parliament Vice-President Marcel Kolaja (Pirates, Greens/EFA) told EURACTIV.cz in an interview. Because the Digital Services Act allows for large...

While the number of Poland’s retirees and pensioners continues to rapidly increase, the country could face an increase in the number of retirees by almost 40% and a 35% decrease of the working population within 30 years if not for...

The environment and energy ministry’s draft law for the ratification of the IGB pipeline and the East Med Gas Forum (EMGF) was adopted by the parliament’s production and trade committee on Friday. MPs will vote on the draft law this...

The Italian Data Protection Authority imposed on Friday the immediate temporary block until 15 February on access to data for TickTock users whose age could not be verified, following the death of a 10-year-old girl from Palermo, who suffocated after...

Spanish regions such as Andalusia, Catalonia and Madrid are wasting thousands of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by not injecting patients with the sixth dose contained in the vials. The reason is the lack of precision syringes to do...