In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Romania maintaining its cap on energy prices until March 2025, Italy notifying the Commission that it is ready to sue Austria for restricting motorway access, and so much more.

The Greek government passed a bill on Thursday to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption thanks to the opposition progressive parties’ votes as 51 lawmakers from ruling conservative New Democracy party (EPP) opposed it.

The next European Commission will face a discussion on how to replace the EU's unprecedented €800 billion scheme of joint borrowing created to revive the economy after the pandemic, European Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday (15 February).

The space-based weapon US intelligence believes Russia may be developing is more likely a nuclear-powered device to blind, jam or fry the electronics inside satellites than an explosive nuclear warhead to shoot them down, analysts said on Thursday (15 February).

The period after a transplant poses significant challenges to patients, among them Graft-Versus-Host-Disease, and the unmet needs of post-transplant care receive limited attention. Together, we can increase awareness and ensure that transplant patients benefit from expanded treatment options and access.

The US special counsel leading a criminal probe into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, said a former FBI informant was charged with lying about the pair's alleged involvement in business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.

One child in Serbia is diagnosed with cancer every day, and one child dies every week, according to the NURDOR Association, on the occasion of International Childhood Cancer Day.

Romania’s cap on energy prices will remain unchanged until March 2025, announced Romanian Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja on Thursday, meaning Romanian consumers will continue enjoying the EU’s fourth cheapest gas prices.

Relations between Croatia and Serbia continue to deteriorate after an effigy of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was burned at a carnival in Kaštela, a town near Split.

Portugal is projected to see “solid employment growth” and a “high level” of economic activity, the European Commission said on Thursday, downplaying a slight downward revision to its forecast for the country’s GDP in 2024, which it stressed was in line with a slowdown in GDP growth across the eurozone.

To achieve a fairer country, the government should do more to end “fiscal injustices” and pave the way for “economic democracy in terms of public revenues”, Spain’s Labour Minister and leader of coalition partner Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, told Euractiv’s partner EFE in an exclusive interview.

Rome is taking Austria to the EU courts over motorway restrictions at their shared border, a measure introduced to protect residents in Tyrol that has proved unpopular with lorry drivers heading to Germany.

Republican frontrunner and former US president Donald Trump’s recent comments about not protecting NATO countries that do not meet their spending commitments are “completely understandable”, Bulgarian Defence Minister Todor Tagarev told journalists in Brussels on Thursday, saying that NATO member states that have made commitments should respect them.

The Czech steel industry is unprepared for decarbonisation, not only technologically but also financially, making it difficult to implement the EU’s decarbonisation plans, experts say.

The new Polish government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk will drop demands for World War II reparations from Germany instigated by the previous PiS government and instead seek another form of compensation such as restoring historic buildings or investing in mutual defence, announced Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.

The UK and Latvia took the lead in a Western industry coalition to manufacture drones for Kyiv, as a move to bolster military support in the long run, they announced on Thursday (15 February).

With Nick Ashton-Hart, Senior Director at APCO Worldwide and Head of Delegation for the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, we take a look at the progress of the negotiations on the UN Convention on Cybercrime.

More than 200 economists called on the European Commission to overhaul the way it calculates its core economic forecasts and better integrate critical environmental factors into its baseline models in an open letter obtained exclusively by Euractiv on Thursday (15 February).

The Council and the European Parliament should introduce new protection measures for agricultural products such as grains and honey against Ukrainian imports, and if they fail, further farmers’ demonstrations in Europe are likely, six farmers associations stated in a joint press release on Thursday (15 February).

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet his German and French counterparts on Friday (16 February) to sign bilateral security arrangements following up on their G7 July commitments, as Russia’s war against the country enters its third year.