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Kazakhstan, the UN, and the EU are working together on a programme to educate Afghan women.

The EU’s stuttering response to the coronavirus outbreak has exposed some fundamental weaknesses within the bloc’s institutions, particularly in the Commission. The executive branch of the EU needs to take a long hard look at its job description.

The European Commission issued more practical coronavirus advice on Wednesday (8 April), urging national governments to set up special ports that can process seafarers and up to 8,000 cruise ship passengers, due to disembark in Europe this week.

Germany's five most important economic institutes insist an economic upturn is on the horizon, as part of their biannual spring forecast published on Wednesday (8 April). EURACTIV Germany reports.

As the effects of coronavirus hit the African continent, the pandemic must mean an overhaul in EU-Africa relations, argue Marta Martinelli and Bram Dijkstra.

After the Hungarian parliament adopted an emergency law that gave Prime Minister Viktor Orbán extensive powers on 30 March, 13 EU member states issued a joint statement on the need to protect rule of law. Austria, however, did not join as it prefers to seek dialogue, the country's EU minister, Karoline Edtstadler, told EURACTIV Germany.

Poland must immediately suspend the powers of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court as far as disciplinary cases against judges are concerned, the European Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday (8 April).

The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has called on the UK government to help fund a short-term financial support scheme for dairy farmers whose businesses have been severely affected as a result of the coronavirus outbreak in order...

Roma and Travellers have long been known to fall through the social net and their situation has only worsened during the ongoing Covid-19 emergency, write Shannon Pfohman and Thomas Hackl.

There has been a spike in recorded cases of racist abuse against people perceived to be of Chinese or Asian descent in the European Union amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the European Union's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) said in a report published on Wednesday (8 April).

Authorities in Germany have fallen victim to a multi-million-euro fraud involving masks much needed in the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said Tuesday (7 April).

Hunting, farming and the global move of people to cities has led to massive declines in biodiversity and increased the risk of dangerous viruses like COVID-19 spilling over from animals to humans, a major study has concluded. EURACTIV's media partner, The Guardian, reports.

The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, accused Donald Trump on Tuesday (7 April) of creating a basis to take over other planets by signing an executive order outlining US policy on commercial mining in space.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Madrid firefighters finding death when responding to emergency calls, the number of deaths linked to coronavirus in France passing the 10,000-mark, and so much more.

After a 16-hour teleconference that concluded on Wednesday morning (8 April), eurozone finance ministers failed to find an agreement on the economic package to tackle the  economic impact of the coronavirus.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s statement about Belgrade cherishing “the European myth” is highly important for the Balkan region as it implies a geopolitical shift, according to Russian political analyst and director of the Progressive Policy Foundation, Oleg Bondarenko. “The official...

While the Government’s April package of measures to bail out the economy affected by the coronavirus crisis received strong support, a bill legalising the broader surveillance of mobile phones as a measure to fight the coronavirus was sent to a...

Bulgaria has banned all foreigners from entering its territory because of the COVID-19 pandemic following an order issued by Health Minister Kiril Ananiev on Monday night. “The entry into the territory of Bulgaria of all third-country nationals, through all border...

On Tuesday (7 April) the Finnish government tightened restrictions on cross-border traffic with Sweden and Norway. From now on, only travel to necessary work across the borders is allowed. Employees have to present an employer’s certificate to justify their travel....

Belgium’s finance minister Alexander De Croo (Open VLD) wants the guarantee system of €50 billion for companies to be approved by the weekend, after the government and the financial sector agreed ‘in principle’ two weeks ago. However, the green light...