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Palm Oil Will Decide Whether the Indonesia Deal Survives AutumnThe High Risk AI Deadline Moved but Transparency Rules Did NotFrozen Tongues Are In and Leather Is Out of Deforestation LawEvery Country Must Draw Its Soil Districts Before December 2028Cohesion Reprogramming Moved 34.6 Billion Into Defence and WaterWhy 597 Million in Fraud Recoveries Still Depends on CapitalsWill the ERA Act Finally Put Teeth Behind Europe’s 3% TargetA Repair Score Is Coming and Nobody Has Agreed How to Count ItMEPs Want 6.6 Billion More for Erasmus Than the Commission OfferedPackaging Rules Now Bite and PFAS Has No Grace Periode-Evidence Rules Now Let Judges Order Data DirectlyWhat Does Eurostat’s Monthly Dashboard Actually Show?Adding 1,600 Names Will Test Europe’s Sanctions EvidenceWho Will Actually Agree to Host a European Return HubSpace Act Rules Get Teeth Long Before Anyone Must Obey ThemDigital Fairness Now Has a Deadline but Still No Draft TextThe Philippines Must Replace GSP Plus Before It Expires in 2027One Weighing Rulebook Replaces 44 National Plans From JanuaryWhy Spain’s Sworn Translators Ended Up in a Treaty DisputeTuna Access Matters More to the Pacific Than Global Gateway GrantsPalm Oil Will Decide Whether the Indonesia Deal Survives AutumnThe High Risk AI Deadline Moved but Transparency Rules Did NotFrozen Tongues Are In and Leather Is Out of Deforestation LawEvery Country Must Draw Its Soil Districts Before December 2028Cohesion Reprogramming Moved 34.6 Billion Into Defence and WaterWhy 597 Million in Fraud Recoveries Still Depends on CapitalsWill the ERA Act Finally Put Teeth Behind Europe’s 3% TargetA Repair Score Is Coming and Nobody Has Agreed How to Count ItMEPs Want 6.6 Billion More for Erasmus Than the Commission OfferedPackaging Rules Now Bite and PFAS Has No Grace Periode-Evidence Rules Now Let Judges Order Data DirectlyWhat Does Eurostat’s Monthly Dashboard Actually Show?Adding 1,600 Names Will Test Europe’s Sanctions EvidenceWho Will Actually Agree to Host a European Return HubSpace Act Rules Get Teeth Long Before Anyone Must Obey ThemDigital Fairness Now Has a Deadline but Still No Draft TextThe Philippines Must Replace GSP Plus Before It Expires in 2027One Weighing Rulebook Replaces 44 National Plans From JanuaryWhy Spain’s Sworn Translators Ended Up in a Treaty DisputeTuna Access Matters More to the Pacific Than Global Gateway Grants
August 25, 2026

Newsletter

The European Post

Policy • Diplomacy • strategic insight

LATEST
Palm Oil Will Decide Whether the Indonesia Deal Survives AutumnThe High Risk AI Deadline Moved but Transparency Rules Did NotFrozen Tongues Are In and Leather Is Out of Deforestation LawEvery Country Must Draw Its Soil Districts Before December 2028Cohesion Reprogramming Moved 34.6 Billion Into Defence and WaterWhy 597 Million in Fraud Recoveries Still Depends on CapitalsWill the ERA Act Finally Put Teeth Behind Europe’s 3% TargetA Repair Score Is Coming and Nobody Has Agreed How to Count ItMEPs Want 6.6 Billion More for Erasmus Than the Commission OfferedPackaging Rules Now Bite and PFAS Has No Grace Periode-Evidence Rules Now Let Judges Order Data DirectlyWhat Does Eurostat’s Monthly Dashboard Actually Show?Adding 1,600 Names Will Test Europe’s Sanctions EvidenceWho Will Actually Agree to Host a European Return HubSpace Act Rules Get Teeth Long Before Anyone Must Obey ThemDigital Fairness Now Has a Deadline but Still No Draft TextThe Philippines Must Replace GSP Plus Before It Expires in 2027One Weighing Rulebook Replaces 44 National Plans From JanuaryWhy Spain’s Sworn Translators Ended Up in a Treaty DisputeTuna Access Matters More to the Pacific Than Global Gateway GrantsPalm Oil Will Decide Whether the Indonesia Deal Survives AutumnThe High Risk AI Deadline Moved but Transparency Rules Did NotFrozen Tongues Are In and Leather Is Out of Deforestation LawEvery Country Must Draw Its Soil Districts Before December 2028Cohesion Reprogramming Moved 34.6 Billion Into Defence and WaterWhy 597 Million in Fraud Recoveries Still Depends on CapitalsWill the ERA Act Finally Put Teeth Behind Europe’s 3% TargetA Repair Score Is Coming and Nobody Has Agreed How to Count ItMEPs Want 6.6 Billion More for Erasmus Than the Commission OfferedPackaging Rules Now Bite and PFAS Has No Grace Periode-Evidence Rules Now Let Judges Order Data DirectlyWhat Does Eurostat’s Monthly Dashboard Actually Show?Adding 1,600 Names Will Test Europe’s Sanctions EvidenceWho Will Actually Agree to Host a European Return HubSpace Act Rules Get Teeth Long Before Anyone Must Obey ThemDigital Fairness Now Has a Deadline but Still No Draft TextThe Philippines Must Replace GSP Plus Before It Expires in 2027One Weighing Rulebook Replaces 44 National Plans From JanuaryWhy Spain’s Sworn Translators Ended Up in a Treaty DisputeTuna Access Matters More to the Pacific Than Global Gateway Grants

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