Tech leaders are warning that Europe faces a tech skills shortfall. Estimates indicate only 12 million skilled professionals may be available, despite EU targets of employing 20 million ICT specialists by 2030.

The European Commission is moving fast to reduce Europe’s dependence on imports of raw materials. However, the raw materials industry worries that continued ‘hazard-based assessments’ for project approval will stifle investment.

A Bulgarian research team is developing a high-end biometric access system powered by artificial intelligence for public events. The product, still under development, will soon replace the current access control systems for mass events.

The EU executive announced on Thursday (2 April) a six-month extension of the extraordinary framework allowing member states to grant support to farms and fishermen, set to expire in June, due to "persisting" market disruptions.

France is the European country with the highest tax burden for pharmaceutical companies, according to a study published on Thursday (May 2) by Entreprises du Médicament en France (Leem), an association of French pharmaceutical companies.

Twenty years ago, on a sunny Saturday on 1 May 2004, three former Soviet Republics, three former Soviet satellite countries (one of them having split in two), one former Yugoslav republic, and two former British colonies joined the EU.

The Happy Planet Index (HPI) claims to have found that higher levels of consumption are not translating into higher levels of well being. The index is an attempt to go beyond GDP and find a way to measure how countries are providing citizens with a good sense of well being without placing an excessive burden on the planet.

Key figures from Spain’s liberal party Ciudadanos (Renew) switching to the right-wing Partido Popular (EPP) have cast doubt on the future of southern Europe’s liberal parties. 

Depopulation poses a significant challenge for the entire EU, but the cohesion policy offers a solution. By investing in areas like construction, transport, energy, digital and social infrastructure, it aims to improve our lives.

Ahead of a new European Commission, following June's European elections, ARTICLE 19’s Mark Dempsey outlines a vision for a European Union where the information environment is open, decentralised, fair, diverse, and inclusive.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Thursday (2 May) €1 billion in financial aid to Lebanon, disbursed over three years, to support the country’s economy and address the challenges posed by refugees and migration.

The Member States have defended the position of Latvia and Lithuania, who criticise the new fisheries control regulation for being too strict on the recording of small by-catches, while the Commission is refusing to amend the text.

The Socialist Party and Place publique (S&D) lead candidate for the European elections, Raphaël Glucksmann, was chased out of a procession marching in Saint-Etienne for Labour Day on Wednesday (May 1).

The US on accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "as a method of warfare".

The United States on Wednesday (1 May) issued hundreds of fresh sanctions targeting Russia over the war in Ukraine in action that took aim at Moscow's circumvention of Western measures, including through China.

Solomon Islands lawmakers selected a new prime minister on Thursday (2 May), choosing foreign minister Jeremiah Manele, who has pledged to continue the Pacific Island nation's foreign policy that drew it closer to China.

The EU called Georgia to 'stay on the European course' and cease spiralling violence in the country's capital after security forces on Wednesday (1 May) used water cannons, teargas, stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse pro-EU demonstrators opposed to a Russian-style 'foreign agents' law.

A senior US official on Thursday (2 May) urged China and Russia to match declarations by the United States and others that only humans, and never artificial intelligence, would make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons.

Slovakia has given temporary protection to a Ukrainian and Israeli citizen who is accused of running a pro-Russian influence campaign via a news website and is under Czech sanctions, Czech media reported.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria restricting gambling and banning advertising across media, Italy resolving a decade-long beach concession dispute with the European Commission, and so much more.