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The coronavirus has already done more to unravel a borderless Europe than all the far-right politicians combined. The pandemic only reaffirmed Politics 101: only strong and effective states are able to cope with crises, writes Hamza Karčić.

Governments around the globe are quickly designing some of the biggest economic stimulus plan ever seen in peacetime in response to the COVD-19 pandemic. But while the health crisis has forced all concerned to take swift action, we are still moving too slowly when it comes to  the climate crisis, writes María Mendiluce.

The European Commission has begun taking more decisive steps toward secure, encrypted communications. But while all of these steps may be positive, not all of them are identical.

Austria's economy has come to a standstill since the government closed down almost all its businesses due to the corona pandemic. To get companies through the dry spell, it is filling a crisis fund with €38 billion to keep them afloat until the economy restarts after the crisis.

The United Nations will create a fund to support the treatment of coronavirus patients worldwide, Norway’s foreign ministry said on Monday (23 March).

UK scientists are to track the spread of the new coronavirus and watch for emerging mutations by using gene sequencing to analyse the strains causing thousands of COVID-19 infections across the country, Britain said on Monday (23 March).

In the middle of the COVID-19 outbreak, the European Commission published last week what would have otherwise been a high-profile initiative: the launch of a cost-benefit analysis of increasing the EU’s climate ambition for 2030 in view of reaching net-zero emissions by mid-century.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Germany implementing new restrictions against COVID-19, the Czech Republic sending the 'stolen' shipment of facemasks to Italy after it had been confiscated at Czech customs last week, and so much more.

Spring has arrived in Tbilisi but its picturesque old town -- a whimsical mixture of Art Nouveau buildings and medieval churches -- is gloomy.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić met Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest on Sunday (22 March) to discuss bilateral relations, cooperation and solidarity in the fight against coronavirus, as well as plans to support the economic development of both states...

“We have two parallel crises that contradict each other,” Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said after an emergency meeting of Croatia’s top officials. He referred to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and the earthquake of a 5.5 Richter magnitude that hit Zagreb...

Prime Minister Igor Matovič of the centre-right party Ordinary People was appointed by President Zuzana Čaputová to lead the new government on Saturday (21 March), and the new PM already took a jab at the previous government for having deliberately...

Italy banned travel within the country on Sunday (22 March) in yet another attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as data showed a further 651 people had died from the disease, lifting the number of fatalities to 5,476.

The coronavirus death toll in Spain surged 32% on Saturday (21 March), bringing the total number of fatalities to over 1,300 just a week after the government declared a state of emergency. EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.  There were more than...

New restrictions will come into effect as of today (23 March) as Germany had surpassed the 20,000-mark over the weekend (24,227 as of 22 March), Merkel told the press conference on Sunday. While all public gatherings of more than two...

The government will have to impose stricter rules on movement if people continue to flout guidelines on social distancing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Sunday (23 March). All pubs, restaurants and cafes have been told to close but the...

A draft Hungarian law allowing the government to rule by decree during the state of emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic risks staying in place indefinitely, the opposition has warned.

After the coronavirus crisis is over, Europe will need policies that can create a research ecosystem in the long run as well as ensure access to medicines to the patients who need them in a way that is sustainable for health systems today and tomorrow, a leading representative of European pharmaceuticals told EURACTIV in an interview.

The Russian army on Sunday (22 March) began flying medical help to Italy to help it battle the new coronavirus after receiving an order from President Vladimir Putin, a goodwill gesture that Moscow labelled "From Russia with Love".

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Sunday (22 March) he was impressed by the statements of a Russian official who claimed that his country knows how to control the coronavirus, and that he had ordered his ministers to obtain the Russian medicines.