Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday (5 September) voted to appoint a new foreign minister, and two new deputy prime ministers as part of a major government overhaul.

The Spanish government is working against the clock to come up with a temporary 'strategic plan' to alleviate the severe migration crisis in the Canary Islands and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta (in North Africa), while the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has encouraged Madrid to formally ask for help to contain the humanitarian emergency.

Germany’s GDP growth forecast was downgraded to zero percent by a leading think tank on Thursday (5 September), amid growing fears that weak productivity and a sustained weakness in manufacturing could lead to weak growth becoming entrenched in Europe’s largest economy.

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has made a series of recommendations to the ECDC, the EMA and the European Commission to better prepare for future pandemics, set out in a critical report.

At long last, President Emmanuel Macron has picked former EU Brexit negotiator and French presidential candidate Michel Barnier to become France’s prime minister on Thursday (5 September).

German police shot dead a man in an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich on Thursday (5 September), state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said.

The Treaty has been watered down to exclude the private sector, thanks to pressure from non-EU countries like the US.

French and German industries have similar carbon intensities, despite a largely decarbonised French electricity supply, according to a La Fabrique de l’industrie and McKinsey report published Thursday (5 September).

The Spanish energy minister and designated Commissioner Teresa Ribera says connecting EU countries’ grid would further the European project, meaning that France may have to abandon its obstruction of power links across the Pyrenees.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Swedish foreign minister resigning from his post, Bulgaria's pro-Russian party advocating for Bulgaria to join the BRICS, and so much more.

The US filed money-laundering charges against two employees of Russian state media network RT for what officials said was a scheme to hire an American company to produce online content to influence the 2024 presidential election.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, responding to a question about the potential delivery of long-range US missiles to Ukraine, warned the United States on Wednesday (4 September) not to joke about Russia's "red lines".

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he intended to discuss a gas supply contract with Serbia that expires in March 2025 with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin.

The former prime minister turned MEP Beata Szydło disagreed with her PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński's approach to finding a candidate for next year's presidential election, marking an unusual show of defiance towards the powerful politician.

Bulgaria's largest pro-Russian party, Revival, called for the country to leave the European Union and become a member of BRICS, where Russia has a leading influence.

Lawmakers in Moldova's separatist region of Tiraspol passed a law on Wednesday banning the use of the term 'Transnistria', equating it with terms such as 'fascism' and 'Nazism', with the region's de facto leader, Vadim Krasnoselski, saying he prefers the Russian term 'Pridnestrovie'.

The Spanish government will present a progressive draft budget for 2025 next week, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE/S&D) announced on Wednesday, asserting that his coalition government will complete the three years left of its mandate amid opposition calls for it to resign.

Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström unexpectedly announced his resignation on Wednesday evening, halfway through a term marked by his country's accession to NATO, amid speculation of a rift between him and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said a cooling tower at Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had been badly damaged in a fire last month and would probably have to be demolished.

Italy approved on Wednesday (4 September) a plan to put 28,000 concessions for lucrative beach bars and clubs up for bidding by June 2027, in a long delayed response to a European Union demand for Rome to open the sector to newcomers.