
Montpellier: A call titled Transformative Change Towards a Nature-Positive Economy and Society will direct 237 million euros of Horizon Europe money to biodiversity research, the European Commission announced on 30…

Verona: The revised organic products rules must reach agreement within seven weeks, because the current regime for organic food imports expires on 31 December 2026. The European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee…

Berlin: The European Competitiveness Fund reaches its first parliamentary test on 10 November, when the Industry, Research and Energy Committee is expected to approve compromise amendments to the regulation that…

Leuven: The European Research Area Act would give the Union legally binding rules for research for the first time, replacing a system that has relied mostly on voluntary cooperation since…

Amsterdam: The European Medicines Agency recommended six new medicines for approval at its October meeting, and the EMA new medicines list includes an oral obesity treatment. The Committee for Medicinal…

Budapest: The 2026 Rule of Law Report shows that member states acted on only 47 percent of last year’s recommendations, which the Commission counts as fully or partially implemented. The…

Warsaw: OLAF customs fraud investigations in the first half of 2026 show how a single smuggling route can cost EU and national budgets hundreds of millions of euros. The European…

Cork: The revised Tobacco Taxation Directive was due to reach finance ministers on 9 November 2026, when the Economic and Financial Affairs Council planned to seek political agreement on the…

Ottobrunn: The Galileo second generation programme gained two more satellites on 27 October 2026, when the European Space Agency ordered them from Airbus. The agency acted on behalf of the…

Alang: The Alang shipbreaking yards moved to the centre of an EU environmental dispute on 4 November 2026, when the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment objected to a Commission…

Rome: The long-term residents directive reform is set to disappear from the EU agenda. According to the Commission’s 2027 work programme, presented on 4 November 2026, the Commission has decided…

Zagreb: Croatian electricity aid has become the latest test of how far Member States can use the Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework, known as CISAF, to cushion industrial power…

Lisbon: Drug precursors will face tighter EU controls after the Council adopted its negotiating mandate on 4 November 2026. The position gives the Member States a common line for talks…

Stockholm: Chemical product packaging that resembles food packaging can be banned on the basis of overall appearance, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on 5 November 2026…

Luxembourg: The Nord Stream 2 appeal ended in defeat on 5 November 2026, when the Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed the pipeline company’s challenge to the extension…

Dublin: The Irish Council Presidency’s third EU budget negotiating box, presented on 10 October 2026, is the first to contain figures, and governments now have to decide how far to…

Rotterdam: The Circular Economy Act, one of the Commission’s flagship green files, has slipped by a week. FashionUnited reported on 29 October 2026 that the presentation, originally scheduled for 11…

Valletta: Return hubs in third countries are about to become part of European law after the Council gave final approval to the new Return Regulation, according to Anadolu Agency’s report…

Podgorica: Montenegro EU membership moved closer on 4 November 2026, when the European Commission presented its 2026 Enlargement Package with indicative roadmaps for the four most advanced candidates. Montenegro, Albania,…

Trieste: Cohesion policy reform must build on what works rather than start again, according to local and regional leaders who met in Trieste on 29 October 2026. About 30 representatives…

Palermo: The Commission’s proposal on Mediterranean fishing opportunities for 2027 is on the table, but its most important numbers are still missing. The Commission published the proposal in mid-September 2026…

Helsinki: The AkzoNobel Axalta merger won clearance from the European Commission in the first phase of review, according to a competition briefing published on 6 November 2026, after the companies…

La Défense: The European Banking Authority published revised EBA internal governance guidelines on 5 November 2026, promising greater proportionality and simplification for banks. The update follows changes introduced by the…