The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warned that there is a need for action to address the significant rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the EU/EEA.

The election of a new government in Poland has enabled this Central European country to revive its ambitions in terms of energy transition and to meet European targets.

Delegates at the European People’s Party’s (EPP) congress in Bucharest officially elected EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday (7 March) to become the party’s lead candidate for June’s European election.

Dick Roche’s recent commentary ‘Preaching transparency but not practicing it” prompted many reactions, but none from the institution in focus: the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). The author comes back with 10 questions concerning its handling of the Euroins case in Romania.

Italian and French envoys are set to hold the fate of the EU corporate due diligence law (CSDDD) in their hands on Friday (8 March), when representatives from the bloc’s 27 member states vote on a new, heavily diluted version of the draft legislation.

France’s request for the EU's Ukraine war fund to include a 'buy-European'-clause when countries purchase armament together keeps complicating member states’ efforts to find an agreement on the file before the next EU summit on 21-22 March.

Centre-right MEPs could obstruct the extension of new EU rules on industrial emissions to more pig and poultry farms during a final vote at the European Parliament next Tuesday (12 March).

In Europe and around the world, opposition to China's unilateral changes to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait has become a general consensus. It is a critical element in maintaining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and beyond, writes Roy Lee.

A senior Russian military officer has warned that the conflict in Ukraine could escalate into a full-scale war in Europe and said the probability of Moscow's forces becoming involved in a new conflict is increasing "significantly."

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about German Federal States demanding progress on outsourcing asylum applications to third countries, Kyiv proposing temporary trade restrictions with the EU in exchange for a Russian grain import ban, and so much more.

A Russian missile missed Ukraine's president and the prime minister of Greece by hundreds of metres on Wednesday (6 March) when it slammed into port infrastructure in the Black Sea city of Odesa.

In a decision that is expected to raise tensions between Athens and Tirana, an Albanian court sentenced Fredi Beleri, a mayor from the country’s Greek minority, to two years in prison for vote buying.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Foreign Minister Tobias Billström left for Washington on Wednesday, where the country is expected to formally join NATO in the coming days.

Azerbaijani police on Wednesday (6 March) raided the offices of a TV station, the interior ministry said, in the latest sign of a crackdown on independent media.

Most Bulgarians are convinced that the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was directly caused by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime, leading to increased negative perceptions of Putin and Russia, a national poll published on Wednesday by Bulgarian consultancy Alpha Research found.

Ten left-wing and centrist parties have formed the “For a Better Croatia” coalition, led by the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP/S&D) - a new formation that centre-right HDZ leader and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković has already dismissed as a threat ahead of the parliamentary elections.

Bulgarian centre-right leader Boyko Borissov (GERB) on Wednesday accused his partners in the ruling PP-DB coalition of “provoking early elections” by hastily submitting the government’s resignation.

In the race to secure a nuclear unit tender for the Dukovany power plant, Czechia express concerns over cost overruns and delays, casting a shadow on French company EDF’s bid.

Ukraine is ready to accept temporary trade restrictions with the EU provided the bloc imposes a ban on Russian grain imports, Ukrainian Trade Minister Taras Kachka told the Financial Times.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi lashed out against the US, criticised the EU and praised his country's partnership with Russia on Thursday (7 March), in a wide-ranging press conference where he called the war in Gaza a "disgrace for civilisation".