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A letter sent by member of European Parliament Paul Tang, seen by Euractiv, raises questions regarding the potential effects of the UK's Data Protection Bill on the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Latvia approving a ban on Russian agricultural products, Slovakia's Fico backtracking on criminal law reform, and so much more.

The Biden administration on Thursday (22 February) warned Iran of a "swift and severe" response from the international community if Tehran provided ballistic missiles to Russia, after Reuters reported earlier this week that the Islamic Republic shipped the powerful weapons to Moscow.

Europe's biggest online fashion retailer Zalando has committed to overhaul by mid-April the sustainability claims it makes on its web sites after the EU qualified them as "misleading", the European Commission said on Thursday (22 February).

The US, Britain, France and Germany on Thursday (22 February) all backed outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as the head of NATO, putting him in a strong position to win the leadership of the transatlantic alliance.

Following months of silence since his resignation from the leadership of the Greek leftist opposition Syriza party, its former leader and PM Alexis Tsipras called for new elections for the party’s leadership as ongoing divisions have escalated.

The European Union's new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) will be based in Frankfurt, Germany, the Belgian Presidency of the EU said on Thursday (22 February), in a move the bloc hopes will advance its fight against illicit finance.

19 companies have filed bids for nearly 34 billion cubic meters of natural gas in a new joint purchasing tender for multi-year deals, European Commission vice president Maroš Šefčovič said on Thursday (22 February).

Albanian parliament voted to ratify a controversial agreement with Italy to process migrants in a northern seaside town while being forced to drop a criminal amnesty, described as ‘an act of mercy’ pushed for by the ruling party due to significant overcrowding in the country’s prisons.

Croatia is starting construction of the final section of the motorway from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, and it appears the motorway route will bypass the territory of neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina and use the EU-funded Pelješac Bridge, which will connect the far south of Croatia to the rest of the country and the EU from 2022.

Czech farmers drove 3,000 pieces of machinery to the country’s borders with Slovakia, Poland and Germany, while other farmers staged protests in major towns on Thursday, which the government said remained peaceful.

The European Commission is ready to approve the first payment for Poland from the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility, which could happen as soon as this week.

Two years ago, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Millions of people in Ukrainian cities and regions woke up to the sound of air alarms and explosions. Mykhailyna Skoryk-Shkarivska was Deputy Mayor of Bucha in 2022-2023. And here is her testimony.

The cities of Amsterdam, Stockholm and Nantes offer good examples of how meaningful progress towards decarbonising the building sector can be achieved, while advancing the EU's broader climate objectives, writes Irene García.

Foreign ministers at the G20 group of nations meeting in Brazil were nearly unanimous in their support for a two-state solution as the only path to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Brazilian minister hosting the event said on Thursday (22 February).

Portugal’s Curry Cabral Hospital performed the first robotic liver transplant in Europe on a patient with cirrhosis who is now at home and “recovering well”, the institution said on Thursday.

There is currently no solid evidence to bring former Catalan president and separatist leader Carles Puigdemont to trial for terrorist crimes allegedly committed during the height of the separatist movement in Catalonia, the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Spain’s Supreme Court, María Ángeles Sánchez, said on Thursday, contradicting the opinion of Spain’s main advisory body of judges.

The US will impose sanctions on over 500 targets on Friday (23 February) in action marking the second anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Deputy US Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia and Forza Italia voted against a proposal tabled by government partner Matteo Salvini’s Lega to have three instead of the current maximum two terms for regional governors and mayors of certain municipalities, with Lega already asking parliament to deliver an opinion on the matter.