
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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…