
Larnaca: The AMLA OLAF working arrangement, signed on 21 October 2026, gives the EU’s new anti-money laundering authority and the European Anti-Fraud Office a formal channel to exchange information on…

Porto: The Right to Stay strategy moved closer to the centre of EU regional policy this month, as Executive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto opened the 24th European Week of Regions and…

Antwerp: The Circular Economy Act will reach the European Commission’s table on 11 November 2026 at the earliest, after the proposal slipped from its original September slot. The date is…

Vienna: Private companies and organisations have until 9 November 2026 to answer the European Central Bank’s innovation call for the digital euro pilot, according to a roundup of Governing Council…

Helsinki: The European Commission sent a Statement of Objections to UPM and Sappi on 26 August 2026 over their proposed UPM Sappi joint venture, opening a formal Phase II concern…

Dublin: EU ambassadors agreed the Council’s negotiating mandate on the Digital Omnibus on 21 October 2026, setting a four-month wait before a website may ask again for cookie consent after…

Luxembourg: EU energy ministers pushed back on 29 October against a Commission provision that would tax electricity more lightly than gas, and at least 13 member states said the Energy…

Rotterdam: The EU customs handling fee of €2 on low-value parcels is due to start on 1 November 2026, according to the Commission’s customs reform page, which published guidance on…

Rostock: The Baltic fishing quotas 2027 put before EU ministers on 26 October would lift catch limits for four herring and sprat stocks while cutting by-catch allowances for cod and…

Zagreb: The European Commission formally set up the PreparEU Advisory Group by a decision of 30 October 2026, creating a panel of senior experts to review how well Europe is…

Bolzano: The Council and the European Parliament reached a political agreement on 20 October 2026 that will let certain imported products carry the EU organic logo, according to the European…

Düsseldorf: The European Commission announced on 30 October 2026 that it will impose definitive PET spunbond anti-dumping duties on imports from China, setting rates between 39.8 percent and 48.1 percent…

Poznań: The European Commission announced on 30 October 2026 that the Open Science Commons Consortium has won the tender to run the EOSC EU Node, the central service point of…

Brno: The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on 22 October 2026 that Hungary and Czechia both breached the right to a lawyer guaranteed to suspects in police…

Cagliari: The total fertility rate in the European Union fell to 1.34 live births per woman in 2024, the lowest level since the series began in 2001, according to a…

Podgorica: The 2026 enlargement package will now arrive on 4 November, a week later than planned, and the delay follows a European Council that discussed enlargement for two hours on…

Strasbourg: The European Parliament adopted its position on the 2027 EU budget on 21 October 2026 by 400 votes to 189, with 84 abstentions. The resolution asks for €194 billion…

Frankfurt: The Governing Council left ECB interest rates unchanged on 29 October 2026, keeping the deposit facility rate at 2.50 percent, the main refinancing rate at 2.65 percent and the…

Budapest: The European Court of Auditors has issued an EIT qualified opinion on both the accounts and the payments of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, making it the…

Marseille: The European Anti-Fraud Office has disrupted a trade in counterfeit gummies that hid THC, the psychoactive compound in cannabis, inside packs copied from a well-known European sweets brand, OLAF…

Galway: The roadworthiness package moved forward in a trilogue on 20 October 2026, when Parliament, Council and Commission negotiators settled several technical points but left odometer readings and post-accident structural…

Vienna: Media outlets and press-freedom groups have asked the Commission to reverse its internal rules on EU access to documents, warning in an open letter of 28 October 2026 that…

Strasbourg: The European Parliament voted on 20 October 2026 to suspend the EPR authorised representative requirement for small producers, adopting negotiating positions on two environmental omnibus files that cut paperwork…