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Welcome to EURACTIV’s Global Europe Brief, your weekly update on the EU from the global perspective. You can subscribe here. /// EDITOR’s TAKE Military mobility has been seen as the ‘silver bullet’ for EU-NATO defence cooperation, meant to ensure seamless movement...

International delivery company FedEx has announced it will invest $2 billion (€1.66bn) to make its global operations carbon neutral by 2040, a task that will involve cutting the emissions of the company’s 70 aircraft and more than 30,000 vehicles operating in Europe.

Apple could face an EU antitrust charge sheet in the coming weeks after a complaint by rival Spotify that it unfairly pushed its own music streaming service, two people familiar with the matter said on Thursday (4 March).

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Finland China an airbase on its territory, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki creating a Council of Political Advisors composed of 21 people representing the ruling PiS party, and so much more.

Vetëvendosje, a party led by Albin Kurti, won 49.95% of votes in Kosovo’s parliamentary elections held on 14 February, the largest share in Kosovo electoral history, the Central Election Commission has announced. PDK was confirmed in second place with 16.9%,...

Germany’s new candidate for the international community’s High Representative (HR) to BiH, Christian Schmidt, has held separate talks on the situation in the country with its three-member Presidency. Željko Komšić, a Croatian member of the Presidency, emphasised that if the...

Discrimination in 2020 in Serbia was ‘pronounced and ubiquitous’, said the editor of the Human Rights in Serbia 2020 report Dušan Pokuševski, adding that no new systemic strategy for preventing and protecting against discrimination was put in place. Under the...

The city council of Subotica, a city in northern Serbia and close to Hungary, decided on Thursday to amend the City Statute to allow for the introduction of the Bunjevci as the fourth official language, along with Serbian, Hungarian and...

Bulgaria will not impose a national lockdown despite the sharp increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus. Since the country’s different areas have recorded large differences in morbidity rates, hospitals will now limit normal operations so as...

Prime Minister Igor Matovič managed to offend Ukraine after his recent radio appearance to discuss the current government crisis in Slovakia, where he made an ‘inappropriate’ joke about exchanging Ukrainian territory for Russian vaccines. When the radio host asked Matovič...

Speaking in front of the parliament’s lower house on Thursday, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said he does not know what is going to happen after three weeks of the toughest COVID-19 restrictions the Czech Republic has seen so far....

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has created a council to develop analysis and expert opinions on the political and economic situation in Poland, and to act as an advisory board on political affairs. The group consists of 21 people representing the...

Athens plans to discuss the sale of F-35 fighter jets and frigates with Washington, US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt confirmed on Thursday. Acquiring F-35s cannot be done until an appropriate infrastructure is built to store the fighter jets in...

Cyprus will allow British tourists who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 into the country without restrictions from May 1, its tourism minister said on Thursday (4 March).

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday presided over the “symbolic” destruction of nearly 1,400 firearms seized from terror organisations, the majority from the now-defunct Basque separatist group Eta. “We cannot change the past, but we do have the ability,...

Lithuanian intelligence claims Russia made a failed attempt last year to carry out an “information attack” on Lithuania, using an impersonator of Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch close to the Kremlin regime, the Baltic News Service reported on Thursday. According to...

The EU “simply cannot trust” the UK after its latest breach of the Northern Ireland protocol, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told RTE Radio 1 in reference to the UK extending the grace period for stricter border checks on the...

The Belgian ban on non-essential travel is proportional and will remain in force until 1 April, the Belgian government responded to the European Commission’s letter, in which the EU executive stated that “no reason” was given for the extension. According...

French Prime Minister Jean Castex reviewed the health situation in France last night, stating that only the Covid vaccination could “get (France) out of the tunnel.” He stated the aim was to vaccinate 20 million people by mid-May. Approximately 1.7...