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Chinese, Russian, and Saudi millionaires bought EU passports from Malta using loopholes to avoid having a "genuine link" to the country, according to leaked documents from Henley & Partners, a London-based firm which designed Malta's golden-passport industry. Many passport-buyers spent less than three weeks in Malta and left letterbox-type residences empty most of the time, the leaked files, exposed by the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, an NGO, showed.

Fewer than one in four of the world's largest companies are on track to meet basic climate change targets, according to a new study published on Thursday (22 April) ahead of a US-hosted climate summit where world leaders are expected to announce new commitments to cut emissions.

A firmer stance from Brussels – noticeably missing last week – against a controversial document proposing border changes in the Western Balkans would help calm the growing anxieties in the region, analysts said. At the same time, regional and international...

One man was killed and four others wounded in Elbasan, 35km south of Tirana, on Wednesday, four days ahead of the 25 April general elections in Albania. Pjerin Xhuvani, reportedly a governing Socialist Party (SP) activist, was shot by Arber...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Italian football clubs abandoning the controversial Super League after the Brits had already abandoned ship, Croatian opposition parties calling for the health minister to go, and so much more.

A permanent migrant camp in Lipa village near the northern town of Bihać should be completed in the next three months, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Security Minister Selmo Cikotić said on Wednesday, news agency Hina reported. Cikotić, together with officials from...

Slovenia has been in the international spotlight for months over the government’s attitude to media and journalists and the issue is expected to be high on the agenda when European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson starts a two-day visit on...

A Syrian surface-to-air missile exploded in southern Israel on Thursday (22 April), the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens in an area near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor.

The foreign ministers of Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy, who met in the Slovenian mountain resort of Brdo Pri Kranju on Wednesday, agreed that the future of the Western Balkan region lies in its integration with the EU, Hina news agency...

EU countries will have to give a clear and joint response to the 2014 explosion in the ammunition depot in the Czech municipality of Vrbetice, in which Russia’s GRU military intelligence service is suspected to have been involved, leaders of...

“There is a consensus among the opposition that Health Minister Vili Beroš has to go,” SDP leader Peđa Grbin said after a meeting of opposition parties. “The man who allowed hospitals to not be delivered medicines, for the debt in...

Romania is close to reaching a vaccination capacity of 100,000 people per day, as it launched the first mobile vaccination units on Wednesday with the aim to reduce waiting times. However, fewer people than initially estimated intend to get the...

MPs of the Democratic Bulgaria coalition have asked Prime Minister Boyko Borissov if Bulgarian special services have intelligence on whether foreign special services were involved in explosions in military factories in Bulgaria in the last 10 years. The question was...

More than 20,000 people signed a Slovak petition calling for the “greening” of the agriculture sector, which was delivered to Agriculture Minister Ján Mičovský on Wednesday. The petition organised by environmental group SOS/Birdlife Slovakia calls for more support for farmers...

Australia said a decision to cancel two accords between Victoria state and China on the Belt and Road Initiative was taken to ensure consistency in foreign relations and was not aimed at any country.

Estonia is “seriously” considering granting Russian opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny asylum in case he is either banished or voluntarily leaves Russia, Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets said on Tuesday. The anti-corruption campaigner, who is on hunger strike...

European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica has underlined that the three European institutions - Parliament, Council and Commission - will speak with "one voice" through the Conference on the Future of Europe.

US President Joe Biden is expected to formally recognize the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War One as an act of genocide, a move likely to infuriate Turkey.

After the Greek hospitality sector was closed for almost 6 months, the government plans to reopen cafés and restaurants at the beginning of May to gradually return to normality. The decision is connected with the gradual opening of tourism on...

After six English abandoned plans to be part of a controversial Super League on Tuesday night, football clubs Juventus, AC Milan and Inter also announced they would abandon ship on Wednesday. Already on Wednesday afternoon, Juventus president and Super League vice-president...