MEPs from left-wing groups in the European Parliament will try to make changes to the Commission’s proposal to relax some environmental requirements in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), to be voted on Thursday (25 April).

After an unprecedented wave of protests and demonstrations across the EU, and with June's European Parliament elections approaching, EU politicians of all colours are seizing upon the agricultural sector's discontent for electoral gains. 

Poland is ready to host nuclear weapons on its territory, President Andrzej Duda announced on Monday (22 April), confirming he had been in talks on the matter with the US administration during a recent visit.

The fact that we finally have a law to ban products made with forced labour on the EU market is an immense achievement of this legislature. Shirts, shoes, or cars made by enslaved Uyghurs, Turkmens, or any forced workers have no place in our shops.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Lithuanian president saying Polish President Andrzej Duda's visit to Trump Tower has influenced Trump's stance on Ukraine, Czechia wanting to reintroduce a proposal to curb the travel of Russian diplomats within the Schengen area, and so much more.

The United States Embassy in Kosovo has said the country met its obligations by holding a referendum to dismiss ethnic Albanian mayors in four northern Serb-majority municipalities, despite Serbs boycotting the vote despite calling for the elections for around one year.

Romanian pro-Russian party AUR denies allegations that it may soon launch a disinformation campaign with anti-Ukrainian messaging.

New rules for buildings approved this month can be lifechanging for millions of EU citizens. Contrary to some of the arguments heard ahead of agreement on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, the health, climate, financial and employment benefits of investing in building stock are all good news for Europeans.

The current geopolitical context is pushing the Weimar Triangle of France, Germany and Poland to prioritise defence and security. On the occasion of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on 22 April, NGOs, think tanks, and businesses argue that a ‘Green...

The transition towards a thriving green industry in Europe is a top priority of the S&D group. We believe that this transition will have to be based on a true European vision, founded upon regulatory stability and joint financing.

TikTok on Sunday (21 April) repeated its free-speech concerns about a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the US if Chinese owner ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year.

Bulgaria risks losing €1.2 billion from the Recovery Plan after cancelling tenders for the renewal of trains at Bulgarian State Railways BDZ.

The Med 5 group of five major southern European countries bearing the brunt of irregular migration pressures – Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta and Spain – has urged the European Commission to step up its efforts to prevent migration flows while criticising the EU bloc’s recent controversial pact on migration and asylum for “lack of ambition”.

In fake videos that have gone viral online, two of India's A-lister Bollywood actors are seen criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asking people to vote for the opposition Congress party in the country's ongoing general election.

The moderate nationalist PNV party and the Basque Socialist Party (PSOE-EE) will repeat their current coalition government in the Basque Country after Sunday’s elections resulted in a tie between the PNV and the far-left EH-Bildu party.

Czechia will again propose restricting the movement of Russian diplomats in the Schengen area, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates, Greens) said in response to the arrest of two Russian agents in Germany on suspicion of espionage and planning attacks.

Polish President Andrzej Duda may have impacted the former US president Donald Trump’s position on Ukraine, said his Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nausėda, as the Congress is about to pass a $60 billion support package for Kyiv.

French EU Minister Jean-Noël Barrot warned of the massive scale of disinformation campaigns coming from President Vladimir Putin’s Russia in an interview with Ouest-France on Saturday, speaking of a “proven risk” that this could distort the results of the EU elections in June.

German far-right party AfD has again provoked France’s far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) by questioning the territorial status of the French overseas department of Mayotte in an official written request to the German government, with the party’s figurehead Marine Le Pen, clapping back that they should focus on Germany’s problems instead.

Moldovan opposition parties denouncing pro-European President Maia Sandu's drive to secure European Union membership said on Sunday (21 April) they were forming an electoral bloc in an announcement delivered in Moscow.