
Frankfurt: Banks in the euro area will pay nothing into the Single Resolution Fund in 2026 for the third year in a row, the Single Resolution Board announced on 13…

Tallinn: The Defence Industry Programme gives the European Union its first dedicated budget for strengthening the arms industry, with €1.5 billion in grants for the period 2025 to 2027. The…

Helsinki: The Democracy Shield committee of the European Parliament has recommended a new EU centre to defend elections and public debate from foreign interference, and its report is the main…

Bologna: The European Universities alliances selected under the 2026 Erasmus+ call are starting their funded activities this autumn and winter, after the Commission published the results on 9 July 2026.…

Paris: The ESG ratings regime reached a hard deadline on 2 November 2026, the date by which providers had to submit full applications to the European Securities and Markets Authority.…

Heraklion: The Cyber Resilience Act now requires every manufacturer of connected products to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours, and the duty has applied since 11 September 2026. The…

Rotterdam: The Circular Economy Act is still a draft idea rather than law, and the Commission was expected to propose it later in 2026, according to an industry report published…

Leuven: The European Research Area Act is due from the Commission in 2026, and the reports reviewed for this article do not confirm whether the proposal has been tabled yet.…

Kiruna: The RESourceEU action plan gives the Union a toolkit to cut its dependence on imported critical raw materials, and its first deadlines are now arriving in 2026. The Commission…

Athens: The EU Civil Protection Mechanism turned 25 in 2026, and the Commission marked the anniversary on 23 October with a tally of more than 900 activations since 2001. Commission…

Riga: The 2027 EU budget now has two competing price tags, after the European Parliament voted on 21 October 2026 to ask for €194 billion in commitments and €203.3 billion…

Podgorica: Enlargement roadmaps are the centrepiece of the Commission’s 2026 enlargement package, adopted on 4 November 2026 for the four candidates furthest along in accession talks. Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and…

Budapest: The Hungary child protection law has been found incompatible with European Union law by the Court of Justice, and campaigners now want the Commission to force its withdrawal. Brussels…

Nicosia: The Pact on Migration and Asylum has applied in every member state since 12 June 2026, and attention has turned to the separate rules on returning people who have…

Porto: The right to repair directive reached its transposition deadline on 31 July 2026, and consumers now ask what has changed in shops and workshops. Directive (EU) 2024/1799 obliges member…

Lublin: National and Regional Partnership Plans are the centrepiece of the Commission’s proposal for cohesion money after 2027, and Executive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto used the opening of the 24th European…

Stockholm: The Tobacco Taxation Directive faces a decisive test on Monday 9 November 2026, when EU finance ministers meet in Brussels for their next ECOFIN session. Ireland, which holds the…

Galway: Peat cutting in Ireland has landed the country before the Court of Justice of the European Union, after the Commission referred it for failing to comply with the Environmental…

Valletta: Tourism overnight stays in the European Union reached 471.1 million in the first quarter of 2026, up 3.4% from the same period of 2025, according to monthly accommodation data…

Duisburg: Germany can now pay heavy industry to cut emissions through carbon contracts for difference, after the European Commission approved a €5 billion state aid scheme on 7 May 2026.…

Bratislava: The Slovak state aid scheme worth €1 billion won European Commission approval on 17 June 2026, giving the country a large fund to attract factories that make clean technologies.…

Sofia: No charges have been brought in Bulgaria on OLAF recommendations between 2021 and 2025, according to the annual report of the European Anti-Fraud Office presented on 20 April 2026.…

Redu: The Space Act is still far from finished, according to the Cypriot Presidency of the Council, after space ministers reviewed progress on the proposal on 29 May 2026. The…