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One Ticket Promise Meets Its First Real Test Inside the Council
Council diplomats will sit down on 24 September to work through the first compromise text on the European Union’s rail ticketing regulation, and the document arriving on their desks is…
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Cyprus Judge Takes Over a General Court Still Absorbing Cases
A change of leadership at the European Union’s busiest court rarely makes front pages, yet the vote taken by the judges of the General Court on 16 September will shape…
External Relations and Diplomacy
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Mercosur’s First Health Ban Tests a Deal Still Being Ratified
Montevideo: Mercosur’s trade ministers left the Uruguayan capital on 2 September without agreeing how to divide the beef quota the European Union has put on the table, and the following…
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Four Indo-Pacific Partners Join Europe’s Ministers in New York
New York: The European Union’s foreign ministers hold an informal meeting on the margins of every General Assembly, and the guest list is usually the substance of it. On 21…
Brussels Today
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Budget Performance Regulation Slips Toward a 2027 Vote
The EU budget performance regulation, the horizontal rulebook that will govern how every euro of the 2028-2034 framework is tracked and judged, has slipped again. A draft report due before…
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Pontes Digital Euro Platform Goes Live for 13 Banks
The Pontes digital euro platform went live on 21 September, opening the Eurosystem’s first production channel for settling tokenised assets in central bank money. Thirteen banks and four distributed ledger…
European Affairs
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Ministers Weigh the Long-Term Budget Before a Negotiating Box
Brussels: Ministers responsible for European affairs meet in Brussels on 22 September 2026 for a policy debate on the 2028-2034 long-term budget, the last such session before the Irish presidency…
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Social Partners Have One Week Left to Shape the Quality Jobs Act
Brussels: Europe’s trade unions and employer federations have until 28 September 2026 to tell the European Commission what its quality jobs legislation should contain, and the clock now leaves them…
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Sanctions by Other Means: Ukraine’s Refinery Strikes and the Policy Brussels Won’t Claim
Kyiv is degrading Russian refining capacity faster than the EU’s own sanctions regime. Washington meets Zelensky on Tuesday to weigh a moratorium. Brussels has offered…
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