
Lisbon: Marine casualties claimed 29 lives in 2025 among the occurrences reported to the European Maritime Safety Agency, the lowest annual toll of the past decade, according to the European…

Luxembourg: Euro area construction output rose 1.8% in August 2026 compared with July, Eurostat’s first estimate shows, but the gain came from specialised trades rather than from building or civil…

Warsaw: Irregular border crossings into the European Union fell by almost a third in the first nine months of 2026, yet the Western Mediterranean route kept climbing, according to preliminary…

Ludwigshafen: The chemicals omnibus won final approval from the European Parliament on 22 October 2026, with 477 votes in favour, 59 against and 41 abstentions. A motion from the Left…

Brussels: Nature Restoration Regulation implementation took centre stage at the European Parliament in Strasbourg this month, when Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall told the European Parliament’s October plenary that the Commission…

Rennes: French fuel state aid worth up to €40.5 million won European Commission approval on 13 October 2026, giving farmers, fishers and hauliers a loan lifeline against higher fuel costs…

Luxembourg: Horizon 2020 industrial leadership funding did too little to turn research into products, the European Court of Auditors concluded in a special report published on 15 October 2026. The…

Patras: RRF public administration spending delivered significant results in only 36% of the measures that the European Court of Auditors examined, according to Special Report 29/2026, published on 21 October.…

Brussels: EU customs reform cleared its last legislative hurdle on 29 September 2026, when the European Parliament gave final approval to the most far-reaching overhaul of customs law since the…

Brussels: Cohesion funds reallocation has reshaped the 2021 to 2027 budget for Europe’s regions, and Member States moved 34.6 billion euros during the mid-term review, according to a Brussels Times…

Brussels: The Commission has accused the US investment firm KKR of supplying incorrect or misleading information during the NetCo merger review, and the case could set a firm precedent on…

Brussels: The IRIS2 satellite constellation is moving from drawing board to build phase just as the EU’s current space budget cycle ends, and the next budget will decide how much…

Brussels: The number of asylum reception places that Member States have actually delivered lags far behind the targets they set under the EU migration pact, according to an investigation published…

Brussels: The Digital Fairness Act is about two weeks from its expected unveiling, and the proposal will decide how far EU consumer law reaches into online design. Commissioner Michael McGrath,…

Luxembourg: An energy windfall tax moved from rumour to the formal agenda on 9 October 2026, when EU finance ministers held a first exploratory debate at the Ecofin Council in…

Hangzhou: An MEP trade delegation arrives in China on 27 October 2026 with a long list of grievances and one fresh agreement to build on. The European Parliament’s International Trade…

Brussels: The European Commission has released 20.5 million euros in Creative Europe media funding, with three calls for proposals aimed at local news, media literacy and the monitoring of press…

Luxembourg: EU fisheries ministers meeting in Luxembourg on 26 and 27 October 2026 will agree the position that Brussels takes into the annual talks on ICCAT bluefin tuna and other…

Luxembourg: Annual euro area inflation reached 3.8 percent in September 2026, up from 3.2 percent in August and 2.2 percent a year earlier, according to the final figures Eurostat published…

Luxembourg: The European Certificate of Succession must identify a property in another Member State when heirs need that identification to register the property there, the Court of Justice of the…

Uppsala: Naloxone nasal spray could soon be sold in the European Union without a prescription. At its meeting from 12 to 15 October 2026, the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines…

Brussels: The WEEE Directive has returned to the infringement list, and this time seven member states face the Commission’s second formal warning. In its infringement package of 1 October 2026,…

Brussels: CRD6 transposition has become the latest compliance problem for national banking regulators. On 1 October 2026, the European Commission sent reasoned opinions to Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania…