
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…

Kildare: The European Commission has selected 20 European Universities alliances for funding under the 2026 Erasmus+ call, in a result announced on 9 July 2026. The alliances will share a…

Cork City: The 20th SET Plan conference opened in Cork on 4 November 2026 and runs until 5 November, bringing Europe’s energy researchers, industry leaders and officials to Cork City…

Leiden: Requests for scientific advice and protocol assistance rose to 485 in the first half of 2026, up from 384 in the same period of 2025, according to the EMA…

Mersch: Producer prices in the euro area rose 2.5% in September 2026 compared with August, according to the first estimate that Eurostat published on 5 November. For the wider European…

Dijon: The fertiliser CBAM dispute split EU agriculture ministers on 30 March 2026, when six governments asked for the carbon border levy to be suspended for fertilisers and the Commission…

Karlsruhe: The RESourceEU plan commits the Commission to spend up to €3 billion over the next 12 months on projects that can supply critical raw materials in the short term.…

Tallinn: The Council of the EU gave final approval to the European Defence Industry Programme in December 2025, and the Defence Industry Programme now sets one of the strictest sourcing…

Vilnius: The Commission’s 2026 Rule of Law Report, published on 17 July 2026, again lists media freedom and pluralism among the weak points of democratic governance across the Union. It…

Rome: European leaders ordered a new ETS2 impact assessment on 16 October 2026, and in doing so they avoided a fresh delay to the Union’s second carbon market. The compromise…

Amsterdam: The Digital Fairness Act is due as a Commission proposal in the fourth quarter of 2026, which means the text could arrive at any point before the end of…

Athens: The EU Return Regulation, which would replace the 2008 Returns Directive, reached a provisional deal between Parliament and the Council on 1 June 2026 and, according to reports from…

Ljubljana: Banks in the European Union cannot refuse a basic payment account only because the applicant appears on a United States sanctions list, according to a Court of Justice ruling…