Spanish far-right MEP Alvise Pérez admitted that he received €100,000 in undeclared cryptocurrencies from a businessman to partially finance his campaign for the European elections, and called for a 'tax rebellion' against the Spanish state.
The European Commission is now close to finalising the long-awaited EU definition of low-carbon hydrogen after announcing a final four-month public consultation on Friday (27 September).
Massimiliano Giansanti has been elected president of Copa, the influential EU umbrella organisation for farmers' unions, cementing Italians' presence in key positions of the EU agricultural bubble.
On Tuesday (24 September), the petition to change Italy's citizenship law hit its target of 500,000 signatures in under a month, paving the way for a national referendum, bypassing the Parliament.
When thinking about industrial policy and how to restore Europe’s economic stance in the world, Europe should secure funding for research and development (R&D), rather than subsidies, a Finnish government representative urged in Berlin this week.
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Meta had been storing millions of users' passwords in plaintext, without cryptographic protection, in an internal database, the firm found in 2019.
Moldova is heading to the polls in October for presidential elections and an EU referendum, with pro-European incumbent President Maia Sandu seeking a second term but facing Kremlin-backed candidates and disinformation.
The ruling Georgian Dream party's campaign ahead of Georgia's parliamentary elections in October has been marred by fear-mongering and echoes of Russian-style propganda on the war in Ukraine.
Pope Francis kicked off a four-day visit to Luxembourg and Belgium Thursday (26 September) with an appeal for international diplomacy and negotiations amid flaring conflicts across the globe.
President Vladimir Putin has drawn a "red line" for the United States and its allies by signalling that Moscow will consider responding with nuclear weapons if they allow Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia with long-range Western missiles.
In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the coalition of Prime Minister Robert Fico facing internal, parties in the Bulgarian parliament expressing satisfaction with Brussels' decision to block North Macedonia's EU accession, and so much more.
Former US president Donald Trump is likely to renew its controversial pitch of a possible swift peace deal with Russia when he meets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday (27 September).
Far from its native Champagne, prestigious French wine house Taittinger on Thursday inaugurated its new vineyard in south-east England, where climate change is making it increasingly easy to grow grapes.
China's newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank earlier this year, a senior US defense official said on Thursday (26 September), a potential embarrassment for Beijing as it seeks to expand its military capabilities.
A new international coalition to seek a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict has gained traction on Thursday (26 September) despite Israel's absence from the talks.
Parliamentary group leaders in Bulgaria have welcomed the EU's decision to open accession talks with Albania and to block North Macedonia until it includes the Bulgarian minority in its constitution.
The mounting rift between Slovakia’s ruling parties, SNS and Hlas-SD (NI), shows no signs of abating as parties air their differences in the media, and Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD/NI) refuses to intervene publicly.
The Polish-Belarusian border has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks, and the situation is becoming more serious, Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (PSL, EPP) said on Thursday.
Hungary's chief prosecutor has asked the president of the European Parliament to suspend the parliamentary immunity of Prime Minister Orbán's main political rival, MEP Péter Magyar, the prosecutor's office said on Thursday (26 September).
Portugal will introduce a new system for the return and expulsion of migrants staying in the country without authorisation and create the National Foreigners and Borders Unit within the police, the government announced on Thursday.
Italy has secured the support of nine EU countries for Business and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso’s proposal to bring forward the revision of EU car emissions legislation from 2026 to 2025, with the minister saying there are now enough EU member states ready to back Italy’s call.
Nuclear defenders are split on whether to call for a dedicated EU regulation for nuclear energy, as proposed by former Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton.
The future of EU telecoms rules had national regulators, the European Commission's competition directorate (DG COMP) and the EU executive's connectivity directorate (DG CNECT) battling it out at an event in Brussels.