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Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro on Tuesday reiterated his government’s goal of strengthening the country's consular network and, along with Brazil, making Portuguese an official language of the United Nations.

Norway will raise its threat level from moderate to high, namely because of the intensification of threats against Jewish and Israeli targets in the country, the Norwegian Police Security Service said on Tuesday.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has hailed the drop in asylum applications as proof that the country’s tough measures are working, with figures for 2024 showing a 23% drop from the previous year.

Italian Prime Minister and European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) leader Giorgia Meloni appears to be bridging the gap between the European People’s Party (EPP) group and the far-right Patriots for Europe group, as representatives from both have been invited to a three-day convention in Dubrovnik.

Amid an apparent rightward shift on migration, EU ministers are meeting to talk new migration deals and how to make the return of irregular migrants more efficient.

The Hungarian prime minister doubled down on previous criticisms of the EU's migration policy and his threats to bus asylum seekers to Brussels.

The famous Franco-German engine turns out to be a hybrid that suffers from too many complexities and downsides, conversely the far-right is stepping on the gas.

Ministers will discuss ways returns can be made more efficient at an informal, closed-door lunch, with a focus on 'return hubs' for processing irregular migrants outside of the EU, diplomats told Euractiv.

MBH is Hungary's second-largest bank and is 30.5% owned by the Hungarian state.

Top MEPs must choose between a logistically smooth hearings timetable or one that opens the door to politicking, according to documents obtained by Euractiv.

To solve the conflict in Gaza, Israel must be declared a terrorist state, Polish far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun said during a debate in the European Parliament on Monday, marking the first anniversary of the 7 October attacks.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal reiterated Ukraine's decision not to extend its transit agreement with Russia, which expires at the end of this year, and urged European countries to reduce their dependence on Russian gas, much to Slovakia's Prime minister Robert Fico's dismay.

Europe’s companies and technologies should stay in Europe, and Europe should invest in them, Calviño said

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgarian farmers set to receive €100 million in state subsidies after protest threat., a Swedish far-right leader embroiled in gang-related controversy, and so much more. 

The Bulgarian government will give €100 million in state subsidies to local farmers who have threatened new protests over imports of Ukrainian agricultural products, the government announced on Monday.

The leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Akesson (SD, ECR), is now in hot water after a media investigation revealed that he allegedly knew the president of a motorcycle club with links to organised crime.

With voters supporting even more extreme parties, the political polarisation on Gaza has further worsened.

A document obtained by Euractiv reveals that MEPs are concerned that the objectives of cohesion policy "may be compromised" by possible RRF-style reforms

“It is unacceptable for a democratic society to allow the advocacy of terrorism and the celebration of crimes against humanity perpetrated by Hamas,” Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday (6 October).

"Sweden's entry into NATO is one of the biggest geopolitical changes since the fall of the Berlin Wall," says Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.

Spain’s Partido Popular broke off negotiations with the government over the migration crisis in the Canary Islands, accusing the left-wing executive of not accepting help from the European Union.

With Georgia passing yet another controversial law, this time against LGBTQ rights, a growing number of post-socialist EU states, such as Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary, appear eager to adopt similar laws, raising concerns within the EU about violations of its laws and the influence of pro-Russian ideologies.

Key lawmaker Ceyhan Ibramov, who is close to Ahmed Dogan, the founder of Turkish minority party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), has been arrested on charges of influence peddling and accepting money to illegally buy votes.

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about the Spanish being at odds with government over migrant crisis in the Canaries, a key political player in Bulgaria arrested for influence peddling ahead of elections, and so much more.