
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…

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…