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Balkan states face challenges in their digital transformation, including a lack of digitally skilled labour, infrastructure gaps, and digital government services, according to stakeholders who took part in the two-day Western Balkan Digital Summit on 4 and 5 October in...

The United States on Thursday (5 October) shot down an armed Turkish drone that was operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey.

The Italian government is planning for a possible mass evacuation of tens of thousands of people who live around the Campi Flegrei super volcano near Naples, officials said on Thursday (5 October).

Slovaks voted last Saturday on 30 September, but criticism abounded over the extensive abuse of political disinformation across online platforms – just as the Digital Services Act (DSA), the legislation tackling illegal content online, entered into force across the EU...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Slovakia's president must explain why she intervened in Ukraine's military aid, Weber's CSU is likely to suffer a blow to EU influence in Germany's upcoming regional elections and more.

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani refused to meet her Serbian counterpart in Spain until the West, including the European Union, takes measures against Belgrade following the terrorist attack in the north of Kosovo on 24 September. Osmani is in Granada with...

Romania must take immediate action to improve the living conditions and treatment of patients in psychiatric institutions and residential care centres the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) said...

Bulgaria’s pro-European government will likely survive a no-confidence vote scheduled for 13 October tabled by the pro-Russian radical party Vazrazhdan and the populist ITN over plans to cut coal-fired power plants. Former long-serving prime minister Boyko Borissov said his GERB...

President Zuzana Čaputová moved to prevent the technocratic interim government from sending a shipment of weapons to Ukraine at a time when Robert Fico, who promised not to send “one more bullet”, is trying to form a government. Čaputová’s strict...

Czechia is ready to deepen its collaboration with the United Kingdom in nuclear energy, particularly for developing small modular reactors, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after meeting his British counterpart Rishi Sunak in Granada. “We discussed specific projects, especially...

Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced their joint position on the EU’s proposed migration and asylum reform, reiterating their strong opposition to the proposed relocation scheme ahead of the upcoming informal summit of bloc leaders in...

Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström will soon hold new meetings in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Algeria to rebuild trust following this year’s multiple Quran burnings, Billström said on Thursday. While talks between Swedish representatives and the Organisation of the Islamic...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accepted an invitation from his Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to visit the country, and teams are “still working on the date”, the Portuguese presidency said on Thursday. “The Ukrainian president has accepted Marcelo...

Spain’s socialist PSOE party is “negotiating” with parliamentary groups the terms of a future amnesty law for those involved in the October 2017 secession attempt in Catalonia, acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez admitted on Thursday. Speaking to the press before...

Britain's opposition Labour Party hailed a "seismic" victory in an election for a UK parliamentary seat in Scotland, beating the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) in a sign of its recovery in the country before a national election expected next year.

Skewed data was used to determine the impact of the EU's renewable energy directive, a scientific paper has claimed, raising questions about the model employed by the European Commission to assess policy options on biofuels.

The prospect of EU enlargement by 2030 is “if” the countries are ready, insisted outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew), reacting to European Council President Charles Michel’s suggestion in September that candidate countries and the EU should be ready for...

French national health agency Santé Publique France will monitor COVID-19, influenza and bronchiolitis, all three acute respiratory infections, at the same time, the health agency announced on Thursday, ahead of the rapidly approaching season of respiratory viruses. While surveillance data...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Economy Brief. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. The EU is showing off its muscles by developing trade defence tools and ramping up its investigations and risk assessments. But whether those muscles are good for...

EPP party leader Manfred Weber is battling to prevent a likely loss of the long-held dominance of his home party, the CSU, in Bavaria’s regional elections on Sunday, with results predicted to dent its power in Germany and the EU.