Category: Research and Innovation
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Quality Traineeships Directive Talks Restart As Scope Splits Council
Cork: Member state experts resumed work on the Quality Traineeships Directive on 4 November 2026 after a pause of several months, as the Irish Council presidency tries to close the…
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Most Europeans Distrust Innovative Foods Yet Want Clear Labels
Parma: A majority of Europeans view innovative foods negatively, according to a Eurobarometer special survey published on 26 October 2026. Some 51 percent of respondents hold a negative view, against…
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T-MED Investment Platform Offers 4.5 Billion Euros In Guarantees
Alexandria: The Commission has launched the T-MED investment platform, a scheme that offers up to 4.5 billion euros in guarantee capacity to draw private money into renewable energy and clean…
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Second Round Of SAFE Defence Loans Opens With 21.3 Billion Euros
Tallinn: The Commission has opened a second round of SAFE defence loans worth 21.3 billion euros, inviting every member state to say how much it wants to borrow for defence…
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Ministers Back Farm Market Reform With Mandatory Bee And Fruit Plans
Dijon: EU agriculture ministers have agreed a partial negotiating position on farm market reform, opening the way for talks with Parliament on new rules for the common organisation of agricultural…
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Temu Gets Four Months To Fix Illegal Goods Under Digital Services Act
Vilnius: The European Commission has accepted Temu’s action plan under the Digital Services Act, giving the online marketplace four months to put corrective measures in place after it sold illegal…
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Space Act Negotiations Split Council And Parliament On Cyber Rules
Toulouse: The Space Act negotiations have exposed a three-way disagreement over how far European rules should reach into orbit, and the biggest split concerns cybersecurity. An International Bar Association briefing…
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Fraud Report Pushes Commission Toward New Anti-Fraud Architecture
Valletta: The Commission wants to rebuild the EU anti-fraud architecture before the next long-term budget, after its 2025 report on protecting the Union’s finances recorded 13,010 irregularities worth 2.1 billion…
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Customs Overhaul Gives Lille An EU Customs Authority By 2027
Lille: The EU Customs Authority will open in Lille in 2027 under the customs overhaul that the Council of the EU approved on Thursday 3 September 2026. Cyprus Customs described…
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Euro Area Unemployment Stays At 6.5 Percent As Finland Leads
Luxembourg: Euro area unemployment held steady at 6.5 percent in September 2026, according to Eurostat figures reported on 2 November by Staffing Industry Analysts. The EU rate stayed at 6.2…
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Baltic Fishing Quotas For 2027 Lift Herring And Sprat Catches
Gdynia: The Baltic fishing quotas for 2027 will raise catches of sprat and central Baltic herring while holding cod to a strict by-catch limit, after EU ministers agreed the catch…
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Merger Control Fine On Kingspan Warns Firms Over Misleading Data
Rome: A merger control fine of 44 million dollars on Kingspan has shown that the European Commission will punish companies that give it false or incomplete information during a review,…
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Energy Shock Looms Over Autumn Economic Forecast Due This Month
Maastricht: The Commission’s autumn economic forecast is due in November 2026, and it has to answer whether the energy shock of the spring has deepened or eased. Neither the press…
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Cities Could Share European Capitals of Culture Title From 2034
Oulu: The European Capitals of Culture programme would open to groups of cities and to non-EU countries from 2034 under a Commission proposal published in September 2026. The plan sets…
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Record 4,807 Bids Compete For 421 ERC Starting Grants This Year
Heidelberg: The ERC Starting Grants for 2026 will fund 421 early-career researchers with 705 million euros, the Commission announced on 3 September 2026. Only 8.8 percent of the 4,807 proposals…
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Fitto Ties 220 Billion Euros Of Cohesion Policy To Competitiveness
Seville: Executive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto has linked cohesion policy to the EU’s competitiveness agenda, saying around 220 billion euros, or more than 58 percent of investment, supports the Competitiveness Compass.…
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Lagarde Steers ECB Rate Hold As Inflation Reaches 3.8 Percent
Frankfurt: The ECB rate hold on 29 October 2026 kept all three key interest rates unchanged, with the deposit facility rate at 2.50 percent. The main refinancing rate stayed at…
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Consumers Await Digital Fairness Act Aimed At Dark Patterns Online
Malmö: The Digital Fairness Act is due to reach the College of Commissioners on 11 November 2026, according to an IAPP Europe analysis published on 22 October. Commissioner Michael McGrath…
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Irregular Border Crossings Fall A Third As Western Med Route Rises
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…
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Parliament Demands Tougher EU Anti-Corruption Strategy On Donations
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…
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ECA Budget Review Finds Only One Of 28 Earlier Fixes Fully Taken Up
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…
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Foreign Investment Screening Notifications Jump 40 Percent In 2025
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…
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EBA Supervisory Reporting Simplification Pushes Bank Deadlines To 2027
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…
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Commission Proposes EU Preparedness Day And 72 Hour Household Plans
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…