
Heraklion: Irregular border crossings into the European Union fell by almost one-third in the first nine months of 2026, Frontex reported on 19 October. The agency counted just over 90,865…

Strasbourg: Parliament has told the Commission what it expects from the first EU anti-corruption strategy, and the list runs from political donations to the revolving door between public office and…

Lisbon: The ECA budget review published on 4 November 2026 gives the Commission’s 2028 to 2034 spending plan a mixed grade, with only one of 28 earlier improvements fully taken…

Hamburg: Foreign investment screening across the European Union grew sharply in 2025, as member states notified 667 investments to the Commission’s cooperation mechanism, up from 477 in 2024. The Commission…

Paris: The European Banking Authority has set out the next steps on supervisory reporting simplification, and the result is a lighter template set that banks will not have to file…

Thessaloniki: The Commission has proposed an annual EU Preparedness Day, to be held every 23 October from 2027, and paired it with new guidelines that ask households to plan for…

Uppsala: The EU Biotech Act has entered a critical stage in Council and Parliament, and a patient group warned on 6 November that it is being left out of the…

Tours: The EU livestock strategy goes before member state envoys on Monday 9 November, when the Council’s Special Committee on Agriculture holds an exchange of views on the plan and…

Ghent: PFAS contamination in freshwater reservoirs is widespread but uneven, and European fish show the highest bioaccumulation of any region, according to a global study that the Commission’s environment department…

Aarhus: Renewable electricity supplied 54.1 percent of net electricity generation in the European Union in the second quarter of 2026, Eurostat reported on 18 September. The share is slightly below…

Zeebrugge: EU gas storage levels stood at 75 percent on 21 October, according to the EU energy regulators’ agency ACER, leaving the bloc with a thinner cushion than a year…

Vilnius: The Digital Networks Act has reached its political phase in the European Parliament, and the draft report by rapporteur Michał Kobosko is already dividing telecoms operators, content providers and…

Prato: The Circular Economy Act has slipped by a week, and Europe’s textile recyclers now wait for the Commission to present it on 18 November 2026. FashionUnited reported on 29…

Warsaw: OLAF investigations in the first half of 2026 show how organised fraud networks use the Union’s eastern frontier, with one case alone involving about €118 million in evaded customs…

Rome: The EU energy solidarity contribution has survived its first serious legal test. On 22 October 2026, Advocate General Athanasios Rantos advised the Court of Justice that Regulation (EU) 2022/1854…

Prague: Access to a lawyer during police questioning is a firm EU rule, and the Court of Justice said so on 22 October 2026 when it ruled that Hungary and…

Bratislava: The Commission has approved changes to four national schemes that compensate industry for indirect emission costs, the higher electricity prices that follow from carbon charges under the EU emissions…

Amsterdam: The first oral GLP-1 pill for weight management and type 2 diabetes won a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency in October 2026. The agency’s human medicines committee,…

Toulouse: The EU Space Act has reached the stage where governments and lawmakers disagree on its core design, and the argument centres on how it should relate to the NIS2…

Luxembourg: The EU unemployment rate stood at 6.2 percent in September 2026, unchanged from August but above the 6.0 percent recorded a year earlier, according to Eurostat figures reported by…

Lille: The customs reform agreed by the Council and Parliament on 26 March 2026 will build a new EU Customs Authority in Lille and a single EU customs data hub,…

Gdynia: Baltic fishing quotas for 2027 are now the subject of a Commission proposal that raises limits for herring and sprat while it cuts the unavoidable by-catch of cod. The…