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Spain's Socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, believes that he has fulfilled the objective of his economic tour of the United States by putting Spain "on the radar" of investment funds for short- and medium-term business decisions, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported. 

In today's edition of the capitals, the Czech Republic start their vaccination campaign for the homeless and former DUP leader Arlene Foster joins Nigel Farage's GB News, all thsi and much more in the capitals.

Santo Stefano is being revived through a €70m refurbishment project to turn it into a high-level European think-tank, academy and open-air museum aimed at boosting the European integration project by training 'enlightened' EU youth, scholars and politicians.

The polls are not in Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg's favour - but she thinks she has a 50-50 chance of winning a third term. Like Merkel, both are female leaders of conservative parties, and know how to win elections.

This month the OECD Inclusive Framework agreed on the main building blocks of new tax legislation for a global minimum tax and for the digital economy. However, Hungary did not join - this is why.

In a comment on High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentin Inzko’s decision to impose a law prohibiting the denial of genocide, Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selaković said he thought Bosnia’s future was unclear. At a meeting with Republika Srpska’s...

Several EU member states have refused to recognise the India made AstraZeneca vaccine administered in Serbia earlier this year, meaning that everyone who received it will also have to present a negative COVID-19 test or stay in quarantine upon entry...

A poll of Bulgarians shows that 58.9% of approve of the caretaker government that has been in charge since May, while 28.8% expressed their disapproval, according to the latest findings of Gallup International Balkan’s monthly research programme, announced on Sunday. President...

Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer has strongly criticised the EU over its migration policy saying it has failed to deliver tangible results. Meanwhile, France has asked for increased presence of the border force Frontex in Europe’s north. EURACTIV’s Oliver Noyan...

Tunisia faced its biggest crisis in a decade of democracy after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze the activities of parliament, a move his foes labelled a coup that should be opposed on the street.

Slovakia’s National Council approved an amendment, allowing vaccinated citizens to avoid restrictions if the epidemiological situation in the country worsens. Despite expert suggestions, the coalition softened the original demands, incorporating freedoms to the unvaccinated. The second largest government party, right-wing...

Czech non-profit organisations, led by The Salvation Army, have begun a campaign to vaccinate the country’s homeless population against COVID-19, a programme which began in mid-July and is now expanding to other Czech cities. “In the area of the capital...

The Polish Embassy in Hungary did not sign a letter of support for Saturday’s Budapest Pride parade, making Poland one of five countries from across the EU that did not express support for Hungary’s LGBTQI+ community. On Saturday, thousands of...

30 million Italians or 56% of the population have completed vaccination against COVID-19, based on data updated on Sunday. However, there are 4.8 million over 50s and 2.7 million young people between the ages of 12 and 19 who have...

The last-minute cancellation of an award to be presented to Iasonas Apostolopoulos, a humanitarian worker who rescued migrants from the sea, at a ceremony for the anniversary of the restoration of Greece’s democracy has triggered strong reactions in Athens. Press...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff Helge Braun told leading tabloid Bild that “those who have been vaccinated will definitely have more freedom than those who have not been vaccinated,” sparking a fierce debate over civil liberties. Germany is...

The southern Belgian town of Dinant was hit by the heaviest floods in decades on Saturday (24 July) after a two-hour thunderstorm turned streets into torrential streams that washed away cars and pavements but did not kill anyone.

Britain hosts climate and environment ministers from 51 countries on Sunday (25 July) for “critical” climate talks ahead of November’s COP26 summit in Glasgow. British minister Alok Sharma, President of COP26, will lead the two-day meeting, which London said will...

EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) on Friday (23 July) has recommended granting an extension of indication for the COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax, previously COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna, to include use in children aged 12 to 17 years. 

Another presidential candidate was arrested in Nicaragua on Saturday (24 July), police said -- the seventh potential contender detained by Daniel Ortega's government in the lead-up to elections on 7 November.