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In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the trial against former French President Nicholas Sarkozy starting in France this week, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič and his party threatening to leave government, and so much more.

China hailed as a success its pre-dawn launch of a robotic spacecraft to bring back rocks from the moon in the first bid by any country to retrieve lunar surface samples since the 1970s.

The recent election in the United States has left many Germans concerned for the state of US democracy, according to a new poll. In spite of this, Germany remains hopeful President-elect Joe Biden will stabilise the relationship. EURACTIV Germany reports.

Zagreb could strengthen its role in the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue through several elements, the first being “setting the final goal of the Kosovo-Serbia negotiations, Kosovo Foreign Minister Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla said during her working visit in Croatia. The only acceptable solution is...

“A crisis of ethics in the BiH judiciary and the failure to ensure accountability for corruption cannot be ignored,” said the head of the OSCE Mission to BiH, US diplomat, Kathleen Kavalec, during the presentation of an OSCE report on...

Head of the NATO Liaison Office in Belgrade Brigadier General Tommaso Vitale said on Monday that Serbia is”a reliable partner” that plays “a key role in regional stability”. During a meeting with Serbian Defence Minister Nebojša Stefanović, the NATO chief...

Montenegro is still the region’s leader in terms of energy transition, but Ukraine has come second, ahead of North Macedonia and Serbia, according to the Energy Community’s latest Annual Implementation Report 2020, released on Monday. The report showed that members...

France is confidently expecting a Croatian technical team to assess its Rafale fighter jets and hopes that in 2021, Croatia will make its final decision on which jets are to replace the country’s air force fleet, French Defence Minister Florence...

The Bulgarian government will decide on Wednesday whether to adopt a second lockdown due to the uncontrolled growth of the pandemic, as proposed by Bulgarian Health Minister Kostadin Angelov. The new restrictive measures are due to take effect on Friday....

European steelmakers were already reeling from dumped Chinese imports and US tariffs when the coronavirus pandemic hit this year. According to trade body Eurofer, it will take two years for the industry to recover, a process it says could be accelerated with a new “Green Deal for steel” and a carbon border levy.

While the public hearings of seven potential candidates for the general prosecutor position are still ongoing, Prime Minister Igor Matovič warned on Monday that should one of the coalition parties elect the new prosecutor general with the help of the...

87% of Poles believe Poland should remain a member of the European Union, according to a telephone poll conducted by Kantar pollster for private news channels TVN and TVN24. By comparison, 8% of those surveyed believe Poland should no longer...

Diplomats in Athens and Nicosia are rushing to arrange a meeting between Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis with US President-elect Joe Biden before the latter meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, news website in.gr reported. The election of Biden in...

The government’s new education bill – currently being debated in parliament – does not “kill” the Spanish language, despite what many opponents say, but rather helps to promote Spain’s linguistic diversity, said Spain’s socialist Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya on...

The US withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan would impact the ability of the Afghan government to control areas that are now relatively stable, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Greens) said after US President Donald Trump’s administration announced its plan to...

Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that he remains hopeful that a UK-EU trade deal can be wrapped up by the end of the week. “I would be hopeful that, by the end of this week, we could see the...

The reopening of shops and the hospital sector must be seriously considered at the next meeting of the consultation committee on Friday, the Minister of the Middle Class, SMEs, and Self-Employed, David Clarinval, said on Monday. “I will plead for...

The trial of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy in the so-called ‘eavesdropping case’ began on Monday before the criminal court of Paris, where he is being tried for corruption and influence-peddling.  Read also: France’s ‘feminist diplomacy’: lots of talk, little action The...

While in most other countries experts blame disinformation on social media like Facebook or foreign powers such as Russia or China, in Bulgaria, the country’s own mainstream media and politicians have contributed the most to spreading confusion and ignorance, write Julia Rone and Georgi Hristov.