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The EU Commission barred Romania and Lithuania from granting emergency licences for forbidden pesticide use. The three neonicotinoids are known to harm bees and other pollinators and their use has been restricted in the EU. However, Romania and Lithuania continued...

Spain’s agri-food sector fears the negative impact of Brexit, in particular for sensitive and key export products like cheese, red wines, and olive oil, also under pressure by US trade tariff measures, EURACTIV’s partner EFE Agro reported. UK market is...

The deadline for Germany to avoid EU fines for its excessive soil nitrate levels is fast approaching, but the Grand Coalition is at odds about how best to tighten fertilisation regulations. In the face of on-going protests by farmers who...

Since the fall of the caliphate, thousands of European foreign fighters and their families have been stranded in Syria and Iraq. European capitals have been reluctant to repatriate their nationals and children born there, despite experts warning that inaction may be more dangerous in the long run.

Global warming emissions from the power sector fell by 12% last year, led by a steep decline in coal power generation, which was replaced half by natural gas and half by renewables, according to fresh data published on Wednesday (5 February).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out about Orban attending a conservative conference in Rome, Finland's plans to go carbon-neutral by 2035, Germany's reignited debate on wearing the Niqab in schools, and so much more.

Leaders and representatives of the four largest religious communities in BiH participated on Tuesday (4 February) in a common prayer dedicated to all the victims of the country’s 1992-1995 war, expressing a desire for lasting peace. The prayer, which was...

PM Andrej Plenković has confirmed Croatia’s stance regarding the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).  After the Friends of Cohesion meeting, which took place in Portugal on Saturday, the PM said at Tuesday’s conference on ”The challenges of adopting the new...

Parliament will debate on Wednesday the new Social Democratic party (SDP) abortion bill that will make abortion free, accessible and legal. “Women in the 21st century have the right to decide about their own body, their reproductive health, and it...

The new amendment to Hungary’s national curriculum has finally been accepted. While the government is positive that the changes will grant “Hungarian youth to rise among the world’s best by 2030″, critics contend that parts of the curriculum are now...

The EU is set to propose ways to modify the accession procedures for countries entering the bloc in a bid to placate France, but Brussels cautioned Tuesday (4 February) that any changes won't be major ones.

The country’s security cabinet has adopted a  new security strategy, while the country’s military strategy is being drafted, Defence Minister Tibor Benkő told a meeting on Tuesday (4 February), following the evaluation of last year and looking ahead to plans...

After meeting European Council President Charles Michel on Monday (3 February), the Hungarian PM travelled to Rome to participate in a conference of European conservatives entitled “God, Honor, Country: President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and the Freedom of...

Spain’s Agricultural Minister, Luis Planas, announced on Tuesday (4 February), that the left-wing coalition government (socialists of PSOE and far-left Unidas Podemos) plans to reform the current food chain legislation and is open to discuss the practice of selling below...

The Finnish five-party government, criticised for not doing enough to combat climate change, has published a “roadmap” to become the world’s first carbon-neutral welfare society by 2035, saying it would “specify the timetable and objectives for the preparation of climate...

The President of the European Commission launched an EU-wide public consultation on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan on Tuesday (4 February), announcing an EU-wide "open health data space" in support of research, prevention and cure.

From January 2021, all forms of tobacco advertising will be banned in Belgium, the Belgian parliament’s Health Committee agreed unanimously, removing the few exceptions that existed under the parliament’s 1999 ban.  Before the ban comes into force, advertising tobacco products...

French President Emmanuel Macron gave a lecture at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków on the second day of his Poland visit on Tuesday (4 February), where he covered multiple topics ranging from Europe’s common history to identity and climate change....

A Monday (3 February) ruling by a Higher Administrative Court in Hamburg has sparked calls for states across Germany to change school laws to ban the wearing of veils that fully cover the face.  The Hamburg education authority brought the...

After Chancellor Sebastian Kurz rejected EU High Representative Josep Borrell’s idea of reviving Operation Sophia for monitoring the arms embargo against Libya on grounds that having EU-boats rescuing shipwrecked migrants could be interpreted as “a ticket to Europe”, Social Affairs...