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In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government preparing for a second wave, Sicily banning new migrants from entering the island to curb the spread of COVID-19, and so much more.

The leader of Social-democratic party of North Macedonia (SDSM), Zoran Zaev, has obtained a mandate to form a government together with the biggest Albanian party DUI, following the parliamentary elections held on 15 July, after these were postponed in April...

Parliamentary elections to be held on 30 August will be the eleventh since the introduction of the multiparty system in Montenegro, and the fifth since independence was restored in 2006. According to the polls, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS)...

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) had to return €2.6 million to the governments of Sweden and Denmark, a sum which the two Nordic states donated so that BiH could invest into its public administration reform projects. For years, BiH had done...

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said on Friday (21 August) that the “option” presented by US presidential candidate Joe Biden would not be better for Serbia than “this one,” but stressed that Serbia did not interfere with US elections. “It...

A meeting between Kosovo and Serbian delegations hosted by the White House has been scheduled for 4 September, Pristina’s daily Koha reported on Friday (22 August). Senior Director for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council, John Ullyot, said that...

Sunday was the 46th day in a row of protests in Bulgaria, where thousands of protesters continue to call for the resignation of the government and the general prosecutor. President Rumen Radev is also calling for the government’s resignation and...

On Sunday (23 August), Sicily’s governor, Nello Musumeci, signed an ordinance closing the island’s migrant centres and banning new migrants from arriving to curb the spread of the coronavirus. “By midnight on Monday, all migrants in the hotspots and in...

The world’s youngest prime minister, 34 year old Sanna Marin was unanimously elected in her home town of Tampere to chair the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Marin, a devoted Rage Against The Machine fan received her nomination accompanied by Queen’s...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is making contingency plans for if a second coronavirus spike coincides with a no-deal Brexit. According to a Cabinet Office paper leaked to The Sun, the government’s ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ prepares for the possibility...

Currently in a coma after a suspected poisoning, prominent Putin critic and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny arrived in Berlin to be treated in the city’s Charité Hospital over the weekend, during which he will be placed under German federal police...

EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan apologised on Sunday (23 August) as he faced calls to resign for attending an Irish parliamentary golf society dinner which breached coronavirus guidelines.

Days ahead of a final deadline, activation of a long-planned Algeria-EU trade deal risks unravelling as political and business leaders in the North African country warn it will undermine economic sovereignty.

The European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell warned Sunday (23 August) that Belarus should not be allowed to become a "second Ukraine" and said it was necessary to deal with President Alexander Lukashenko.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said Sunday (23 August) that the European Union's recovery package financed by joint borrowing was a long-term measure rather than a short-term coronavirus crisis fix, contradicting Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A Madrid judge's ruling scrapping the regional government's new coronavirus restrictions has thrown up questions about the legality of implementing such extraordinary measures, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported.

A European Union plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions up to 55% below 1990 levels by 2030 is technically and economically possible, researchers said on Monday (24 August).

Tens of thousands of Lithuanians linked arms on Sunday (23 August) in solidarity with the people of neighbouring Belarus who have been holding mass protests against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko since a disputed presidential election two weeks ago.

The SARS-CoV-2 mutates but these mutations do not change significantly the main features of the virus, the EU agency for infectious diseases control has said.

The row between the European Court of Justice and Germany’s Constitutional Court calls for a solution to be found to solve future clashes. José Luís da Cruz Vilaça proposes setting up an alert mechanism, similar to the one available to national parliaments.