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In Germany, where agriculture is officially responsible for 6.3% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, around 14 million tonnes of greenhouse gases must be saved in order to reach the Paris climate goals. But now that the EU climate targets are to be raised, what contribution can the agriculture sector make? EURACTIV Germany reports.

Tonight, US President Donald Trump and his Democratic contender Joe Biden will face off for the first time, 35 days ahead of the US presidential election. They will not get a second chance to make a first impression. Presidential debates...

Britain and Canada on Tuesday (29 September) slapped sanctions on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, his son and senior figures in the regime for a string of alleged human rights violations.

Europe is "screwed" if the European Parliament ceases sitting in the French city of Strasbourg once a month and convenes only in Brussels, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday (29 September).

Protests against government corruption have been rocking Bulgaria since August. MEP Daniel Freund, who was in Sofia last week to meet with protesters, shares his impressions.

The idea of a ‘hydrogen economy’ to replace the hydrocarbon-fueled economies of the 20th century has been discussed for at least the past 50 years. Maria João Duarte is the Representative to the EU Institutions of Mitsubishi Power Europe. Until...

Despite being taken into consideration only slightly in the EU's current farming subsidies programme, Conservation Agriculture is set to play a central role in the green architecture of the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

French President Emmanuel Macron met Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Vilnius on Tuesday (29 September), the second day of a visit to Baltic countries meant to reassure them about French commitment to their security. In a private meeting that...

Allowing the construction of Nord Stream 2 has been a mistake from the beginning and should be stopped immediately, argues Urmas Paet.

The Hungarian government has demanded the resignation of European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová over what it said were her "derogatory public statements" about democracy in Hungary, and said it would suspend "all political contacts" with her.

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The global death toll from COVID-19 rose past 1 million on Tuesday (29 September), according to a Reuters tally, a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and changed the way people live.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about French President Emmanuel Macron wanting the European Parliament sessions back in Strasbourg, a US diplomat asking Portugal to choose between the US and China, and so much more.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić and German Ambassador to Belgrade Thomas Schieb said yesterday (28 September) that relations between the two countries were at a high level and characterised by intensive cooperation both at a political and economic level, given...

Radomir Nikolić, a former Mayor of Kragujevac and the son of former Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić, is the likeliest candidate for the post of Serbian Ambassador to China, the Kurir daily reported on Monday (28 September). According to the newspaper,...

Plenković also met with vice-presidents of the Bosnian parliament’s upper house, Bakir Izetbegovic of the Bosniak SDA party and Dragan Čović of the HDZ BiH, a sister party of Croatian HDZ (EPP). Plenković said that it was essential to enable...

Prime Minister Andrej Plenković attended a commemoration for the nine Serb civilians who were killed in Varivode in the aftermath of 1995’s Operation Storm, expressing sympathy for those whose lives Croatia had failed to protect and describing the crime as...

About a hundred people are currently detained in Slovenian jails on charges of organising transport for illegal migrants, said Slovenian Interior Minister Aleš Hojs (SDS-EPP), noting that the government has decided to tighten its asylum policy because of abuse. Slovenian...

Both the socialist party PSD and the ruling PNL claimed victory after the local elections were held Sunday (27 September), with a view to mobilising their bases for the general elections scheduled for early December. “PSD is on the right...

Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld a ruling to ban Quim Torra,  Catalonia’s regional president, from holding public office for 18-months over his refusal to remove slogans supporting jailed separatists on the run up to general elections last year. While...