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Companies on the brink of bankruptcy, citizens on the verge of exhaustion: the strict pandemic regulations that have been in place for months are taking a serious toll and prompting urgent calls for an easing of the measures, especially in areas where infection rates are falling. But politicians are hesitant - and often make decisions behind closed doors. However, this isn't the only reason why journalists are critical of the decision-makers' response to the crisis.

Turkey's President Erdoğan presented a new national space programme on Tuesday. Turks will fly to the moon for the Republic's hundredth birthday in 2023, he said.

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Reducing poverty and social inequality has become the main policy priority for EU citizens after the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey commissioned by the European Parliament has shown.

MEPs approved the EU’s key instrument to help countries recover from Covid-19, debated the vaccines situation and called for tighter recycling rules.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

MEPs approved the EU’s key instrument to help countries recover from Covid-19, debated the vaccines situation and called for tighter recycling rules.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Czech parliament not extending the state of emergency, Austrian anti-corruption authorities raiding the house of the country's finance minister, and so much more.

Poland has welcomed the inclusion of hydrogen infrastructure in the European Commission’s recast regulation for cross-border energy networks. “It is critical for our region that this legislation is colour-blind and does not discriminate between different ‘types’ of hydrogen,” says Michał Kurtyka.

According to EU scenarios, the share of hydrogen in Europe’s energy mix is expected to grow from less than 2% today to 13-14% by 2050, as part of efforts to decarbonise transport and heavy industries. Central and Eastern EU countries...

Amsterdam has displaced London as Europe's biggest share trading centre after Britain left the European Union's single market, and picked up a chunk of UK derivatives business along the way, according to data published on Thursday (11 February).

The Head of the Human Rights Directorate of the Council of Europe, Christophe Poirel, and representatives of the European Court of Human Rights will hold talks next week with government officials and senior diplomatic officials in Bosnia on the implementation...

Croatia’s ministry of foreign and European affairs has rejected as unfounded a diplomatic note sent at the end of January by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign ministry related to the announcement of plans to declare an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in...

The Serbian government has secured 5,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses for the immunisation of medical staff in Republika Srpska (RS), the office of the Serb member and president of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, announced Thursday. It was...

Following a gradual but persistent decrease in coronavirus infections and hospitalisations, Slovenia has entered the orange tier, with the government deciding on Thursday for a sweeping easing of restrictions, including the reopening of all stores and primary schools as of...

Female opposition MPs said on Thursday that they had collected signatures for an amendment to the Value Added Tax Act which proposes that VAT on sanitary pads and tampons, the so-called women’s tax, be reduced from 25 to 5%. That...

Pro-Russian businessman and politician Vesselin Mareshki, and anti-Russian nationalist Valeri Simeonov have signed an agreement to run together in Bulgaria’s upcoming parliamentary elections set for 4 April. This formation, which has come as a surprise, aims to garner at least...