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UK lawmakers have urged Boris Johnson and Michel Barnier to broker a compromise to avoid an economically damaging ‘no deal’ Brexit scenario.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the diplomatic spat between Romania and Germany following a recent COVID-19 outbreak in North Rhine-Westphalian meatpacking plant, Spain's new package to save its 'battered' tourism sector, and so much more.

Meanwhile, EU special envoy for the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia Miroslav Lajcak has said on Thursday (18 June) that the conditions now existed for continuing the dialogue and that he will assist the two sides in reaching a “stable...

However, People’s Party president and one of the leaders of the opposition coalition, Alliance for Serbia, Vuk Jeremić, said on Thursday (18 June) that President Aleksandar Vučić would surrender another piece of Serbia’s sovereignty in Kosovo on 27 June in Washington....

Moscow would continue to support all contacts and initiatives that would help Belgrade and Pristina reach a mutually acceptable solution to the Kosovo issue based on UN Security-Council Resolution 1244, Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov stated during a visit in...

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Thursday (18 June) that an extra €4.2 billion package will be offered to boost the national tourism sector, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported.  When presenting the “rescue plan” for the tourism sector, along with...

While Finland approves of the European Commission’s proposal for a €750 billion EU Recovery Fund in principle, it would like to see its criteria altered so that the money would be allocated to those who have suffered most from the...

Britain’s Labour party has a mountain to climb if it wants to win power from Boris Johnson’s Conservatives, according to an inquest into the party’s heavy defeat in last December’s election. The report by the Labour Together project published on...

Belgium was ranked worst out of 21 OECD members, with a score of 2.11 out of 4, lower than Italy, Spain and UK, who all recorded a score of 2.22, according to a new international study by the Economist Intelligence...

After Washington confirmed Wednesday (17 June) that the US had pulled out of talks on global rules for taxing the digital economy, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire told radio station France Inter on Thursday (18 June) that it was...

Following news of a massive COVID-19 outbreak in a meat-packing plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, state leader Armin Laschet (CDU) defended the state’s easing of coronavirus restrictions, claiming they had not been responsible for the incident. Instead, he pointed the finger...

We should not be fooled by the latest development in Hungary - ending one state of danger, while simultaneously declaring another - represents the actions of an increasingly autocratic state, writes Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday (18 June) he would reject European Union membership if Belgrade does not receive concessions in return for recognising Kosovo and dropping attempts to stop it joining the United Nations.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday (18 June) made his first overseas trip since the coronavirus outbreak began, visiting London to mark the 80th anniversary of wartime resistance leader Charles de Gaulle's rallying cry against Nazi occupation from the British capital.

If we have fresh strawberries on our table these days, if we can enjoy delicious asparagus from our fields, it is thanks to the people who work outside. Quite often, they are seasonal workers, and we have to protect them, write Dan Nica and Jens Geier.

EU leaders will discuss for the first time on Friday (19 June) the €750 billion recovery fund proposed by the Commission to overcome the coronavirus crisis. But in order to access EU aid, member states will have to bring down their ballooning public debt, an EU official explained.

France and the US locked horns Thursday (18 June) over taxing digital giants such as Google and Facebook, after Washington said it was breaking off talks aimed at establishing a global framework for making the companies pay larger levies where they operate.

What on earth is a pig in a poke, in EU institutions diversity is broke and European Council discussions are far from a joke.

German federal prosecutors accused Russia on Thursday (18 June) of ordering the killing of a former Chechen rebel in Berlin last summer and indicted a Russian man for the murder, which has severely strained diplomatic ties.

EU and Eastern Partnership (EaP) heads of state and governments as well as European institution leaders met on Thursday  (18 June) to discuss the COVID-19 crisis as well as reaffirm the strategic partnership and discuss its future. However, the talks...