
Sofia: Income gap across the EU edged down in 2025, according to figures that Eurostat published on 23 October 2026. The bloc’s Gini coefficient, which measures how unevenly disposable income…

Brussels: The Temu compliance plan has cleared its first regulatory hurdle. On 26 October 2026 the European Commission accepted the action plan that the online marketplace submitted under the Digital…

Brussels: Counterfeit goods seizures across the European Union hit a new record in 2025, according to the annual enforcement report that the EU Intellectual Property Office and the European Commission…

Liepāja: Plastic packaging waste in the European Union reached 35.9 kilograms per person in 2024, according to Eurostat data released on 22 October 2026. The figure is 0.6 kilograms higher…

Gothenburg: Transport noise pollution does not harm everyone equally, and the European Environment Agency wants policy to reflect that. In a press release on 26 October 2026 built on its…

Kigali: The European Medicines Agency and the African Medicines Agency have set minimum requirements for starting clinical trials of a Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine, in a joint position paper published on…

Nantes: The European Banking Authority has classified USDC, issued in the EU by Circle Internet Financial Europe SAS, as a significant e-money token, the first of the 45 e-money tokens…

Rijeka: The European Commission has approved a €60 million Croatian state aid scheme that compensates energy-intensive companies for the higher electricity prices caused by carbon costs under the EU Emissions…

Warsaw: The regional employment rate across the European Union reached 76.1% in 2025 for people aged 20 to 64, the highest level since Eurostat began the series in 2009. The…

Stockholm: The tobacco excise directive revision is stuck on one condition, a functioning Swedish government, as finance ministers prepare for the Ecofin Council on 9 November 2026. Ireland’s presidency hopes…

Coimbra: The EU civil protection mechanism has reached its 25th anniversary, and the Commission marked the date on 23 October 2026 with a record that few other EU tools can…

Tallinn: The protection of minors online is set to become an EU-wide legal matter under a Commission proposal that sets age-based access rules for social networks and video platforms. The…

Brussels: The EU methane regulation is about to lose some of its bite after the European Parliament voted on 22 October 2026 to postpone key obligations, by 341 votes to…

Zaragoza: The European Parliament has asked the EU to speed up its high-speed rail network, adopting a resolution in Strasbourg on 20 October 2026 by 558 votes to 23, with…

Haapsalu: Fisheries simplification was the headline item for EU fisheries ministers in Luxembourg on 26 October, and many of them told the Commission that it has not gone far enough.…

Villach: The European Commission has approved €319 million in Austrian State aid for Infineon Technologies Austria to upgrade its semiconductor site in Villach, Carinthia. Brussels announced the decision on 27…

Ghent: Parliament has again put the Council budget discharge on trial, voting on 21 October by 434 to 203, with 21 abstentions, on the 2024 discharge report for the European…

Bologna: Disrupted travel refunds are about to get simpler for passengers across the EU after Parliament approved new passenger-rights rules on 20 October by 652 votes to 2, with 8…

Lugo: The EU fertility rate fell to 1.34 live births per woman in 2024, the lowest level since the time series began in 2001, according to a Eurostat article published…

Klaipėda: The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has announced EPPO fraud charges against twelve people in Lithuania, in a case that touches two projects financed with EU and national money. The…

Pécs: The Article 7 procedure against Hungary has entered a new phase as a European Parliament delegation completes a rule of law visit this week. MEPs from the Civil Liberties…

Hamburg: EU member states notified 667 foreign investments to the Commission in 2025, up from 477 in 2024, according to the sixth annual report on foreign investment screening published on…

Thessaloniki: The European Commission proposed a climate resilience law on 27 October 2026, aiming to move Europe from reacting to climate disasters toward managing risk before disaster strikes. The proposal…