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Unresolved banking scandals threaten to derail closer cooperation with Europe's microstates, writes Martin Kreutner.

China, the world's top graphite producer, on Friday (20 October) announced new curbs on exports of certain types of graphite, key to making batteries for electric vehicles, in its latest move to control supplies of critical minerals in response to challenges over its manufacturing dominance.

The EU's reaction to the current inflationary episode shows that it still follows a macroeconomic paradigm that makes it unable to properly react to the climate crisis and will ultimately lead to economic and ecological misery.

NATO is stepping up patrols in the Baltic Sea following recent damage to undersea infrastructure in the region, the transatlantic military alliance said on Thursday (19 October).

European companies are among world leaders in energy saving solutions and are ideally positioned to reap the benefits of climate action, but they feel ignored by Brussels, which left aside the EU’s multi-billion energy efficiency sector in its recent Net-Zero Industry Act.

European Council President Charles Michel will visit Egypt on Saturday (21 October) and call for support for a country that may have to take in tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing war-torn Gaza, he said Thursday (19 October).

In today's edition of Capitals, find out more about Catalonia's Aragonès calling for a 'Scotland-style' referendum, French wine growers protesting against cheap imports by destroying crates at the Spanish border, and so much more.

This week, Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer and activist who launched the not-for-profit organisation NYOB, standing for None-of-Your-Business, joins Euractiv Tech brief podcast to talk about the European Union – United States Data Privacy Framework, the new transatlantic agreement allowing...

Prospects dimmed on Thursday (19 October) for agreements ending long-running disputes between the United States and European Union over Trump-era tariffs and US green subsidies after negotiators failed to make any breakthroughs before a White House summit.

The EU Parliament called on EU member states to adopt targeted restrictive measures against EU candidate country Serbia in relation to the terrorist attack in north Kosovo on 24 September, carried out by Serbian paramilitaries. The attack left one Kosovo...

The Jarinje border crossing has reopened for movement from Serbia into north Kosovo after a 24-day blockade, a situation that arose following the Serb paramilitary terrorist attack in Banjska, while residents of villages along the border report some difficulties in...

Slovenia will reintroduce Police checks at the border with Croatia and Hungary from Saturday for at least ten days due to heightened security risks amid organised crime and the escalation of tensions in the Middle East. According to law enforcement...

UK military experts will be training Ukrainians in the Romanian bases next year, the British ambassador to Bucharest, Andrew Noble, said at a press conference at the end of his mandate on Thursday. The diplomat highlighted the very dynamic bilateral...

Polish President Andrzej Duda will begin consultations with parliamentary parties on forming a new government after Sunday’s elections saw a merger of the opposition do better than Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (PO), the...

Almost four-fifths of the population does not trust Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, according to a new survey published by CVVM agency. In terms of distrust, about 77% of Czechs distrust Fiala, which is the lowest number among any top...

US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy on 19 October discussed Washington's continued military support for Kyiv's drive to evict Russian forces, with the Ukrainian leader expressing thanks for supplying long-range missiles.

Maltese authorities have been called on to stop fostering a hostile climate for journalists, end the culture of impunity, and accelerate legal proceedings to bring to justice all those involved in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia by European Parliament...

Portuguese Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho and his Kuwaiti counterpart, Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber al-Sabah, agreed on Thursday on the importance of protecting the people of Gaza and sending humanitarian aid there. Recently, the minister has held several telephone and face-to-face...

Spain’s future government should agree to hold a ‘referendum like the one in Scotland’ in 2014, Catalonia’s regional prime minister, Pere Aragonès of the separatist ERC party, told the Spanish senate on Thursday. In a confident yet defiant tone, Aragonès...

The Dutch Labour Party and the Greens apologised on Thursday after receiving a lot of criticism for supporting a parliament motion that underlined Israel’s right to self-defence in its conflict with Palestine. The motion, which had been submitted by conservative...