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Pressure is increasing on member states to recycle 77% of plastic bottles by 2025 and reduce waste.

Leaders should take advantage of the recovery fund to bring the climate goals of their citizens to fruition and use experience from the past to shape a green future, writes NGO members across Central and Eastern Europe countries.

Thirty European Parliament lawmakers have written to Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides calling for the EU pharmaceutical strategy to integrate the development of, and access to, affordable and quality antimicrobials in a sustainable environment.

Speaking at the annual Industry Day event, Germany's Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) promised business leaders that there would not be a second shutdown. He also took the opportunity to be critical of his SPD colleague, Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz. EURACTIV Germany reports.

The EU antitrust launched on Monday (5 October) another investigation to clamp down on anti-competitive business practices that led to a 'canned vegetable cartel' in the European food market.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down on Tuesday (6 October) the Hungarian education law that had pushed the university funded by American billionaire George Soros to move out of Budapest. The court said this ran contrary to the principle of academic freedom as well as the freedom to conduct business and provide services.

The European Peoples’ Party (EPP), the EU's centre-right political faction, maintained its support to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov on Monday (5 October) after a stormy  debate marked by online broadcast failures.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Polish president having to postpone the cabinet swear-in due to the coronavirus, UK lawmakers warning that a no deal Brexit could increase terrorism, and so much more.

The Paris Court of Appeal will rule Thursday (8 October) on whether the country's competition authority had the power to require Google to negotiate with the French press on so-called "neighbouring rights" which allow online newspaper publishers to be remunerated for publishing extracts of their articles on Google News.

“We take note of the parliament’s adoption of further amendments to the electoral code. We recall that these are unrelated to the implementation of the OSCE/ODIHR recommendations on electoral reform as referred to in the March council conclusions. We regret...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić nominated yesterday (5 October) Prime Minister Ana Brnabić for the position of new prime minister-designate. Vučić said at a press conference in Belgrade that there had been more candidates, but confirmed he had opted Brnabić because...

Nearly 66% of the country’s people support protests that insist the government and Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev resign, which have been going on for 89 days. Prime Mininster Boyko Borissov is losing his approval rating among voters, meaning he is...

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said that project contracts worth 16.53 billion kunas (€2.8 billion) had so far been signed for the “Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem” project, which is 88% of the total allocation, and that 6.6 billion kunas (€870...

Slovenia’s Agriculture Minister Aleksandra Pivec stepped down from her post on Monday (5 October), following her recent resignation as the leader of the Pensioners’ Party (DeSUS). She resigned just a few hours before the National Assembly was to vote on...

The Romanian authorities banned religious pilgrimages and reintroduced the obligation to quarantine for people arriving from countries with a higher incidence rate than Romania to try and contain a more aggressive wave of COVID-19 infections. Public health officials also announced...

The Hungarian government’s economic policy is focusing on seven areas to mitigate the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic and to put the economy on a fast growth trajectory, Márton Nagy, the Prime Minister’s chief advisor on economic policy, told...

The media website telex.hu, which was launched by former Index.hu journalists who resigned because they saw Index’s independence and integrity undermined, is now online. A statement read: “The journalists who resigned from Index.hu at the end of July are launching...

The Czech government approved on Monday (5 October) the first part of a planned canal system connecting the Danube river with the North Sea after the idea was first tabled in a memorandum signed in 2017 by Czech, Polish and...

The Public Power Corporation (PPC) – one of Greece’s biggest energy companies and one of the few real economic giants in a rather small economy – announced a new strategy based on investments in renewable energies with major foreign players,...

The regional government of the the largest Spanish autonomous community, Castilla y León, decided yesterday (5 October) to implement partial lockdowns in León and Palencia for 14 days to curb the quick surge in COVID-19 infections reported in both cities...