The tone of Zelenskyy's rhetoric pointed to mounting Ukrainian frustration over the extent of Western support for Kyiv at a critical time in the war with Russia, with the clock counting down to Tuesday's US presidential election.

The EU and US have a chance now to order structural measures that would make our digital lives freer and fairer. This chance must not be under-estimated – or missed, writes Claire Lavin.

A former US ambassador to NATO described Turkey as a country difficult to live with but impossible to live without.

EU capitals are currently spending more time visualising a Trump return to power than a Harris victory.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about vote buying in Bulgaria, Zelenskyy criticising Poland for failing to deliver on military aid, and so much more. 

Delyan Peevski, sanctioned by the US and Britain for corruption, is accused of large-scale vote buying.

It is important to focus on what is in place rather than just inventing new things, said Kubín.

HarrisX's poll - commissioned by a Georgian opposition television station, Mtavari Arkhi - showed the combined four main opposition parties on course for a parliamentary majority in Saturday's election.

The government wants to inspire confidence and stability among farmers.

Tuesday's tragedy was the worst flooding this century and the worst in the last 75 years in Valencia.

ECB rate policies have repeatedly come under fire from Italian officials. 

"And what are the Poles doing? Are they shooting down? No," Zelenskyy said.

The COP29 UN climate summit is being held in Azerbaijan's capital Baku from 11 to 22 November. Azerbaijan has faced considerable scrutiny over its hosting of COP29.

After the Tokyo talks, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will head to South Korea, where concerns about North Korea will top the agenda.

“I think the best-case scenario [for Europe] is the Harris administration continuing protectionist policies as Biden did – with a friendly face,” Niclas Poitiers, a research fellow at EU policy think-tank Bruegel, told Euractiv.

Insulin affordability and availability across Europe are just part of the complex diabetes management dynamics challenging the EU’s fragile and diverse healthcare systems. Socioeconomic and regional disparities play their part, but so too does innovation.

As the Western Balkans and other candidate countries steadily make their way to the European Union, alignment with European standards and regulations is a crucial tool that can facilitate their integration, especially in the Single Market.

Is the European Commission pushing the fertiliser sector too hard, too fast? A green nitrogen decarbonisation project has been postponed, and European funding declined because of ‘unrealistic’ and ‘unworkable’ climate-focused regulations.

The European Commission recently announced more than €380 million in grants to 133 new projects across Europe to achieve the EU Green Deal, including the EU’s aim to become climate-neutral by 2050.

Bulgaria is risking an increase in deaths directly or indirectly caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens, following a 27% rise in antibiotic use over the past five years.