Since 2024, the EU has started developing a coordinated approach to providing affordable and sustainable housing.

The Commission proposal for a performance framework regulation is part of the the 2028-2034 multiannual financial framework, and defines the following horizontal spending principles: climate and ...

The key debate during the April 2026 plenary session was with the Council and the European Commission on the European Union's strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis and its ...

April in Ayia Napa and Lefkosia, Cyprus for their customary bi-annual informal meeting hosted by the rotating Council Presidency of the EU. The meeting started on a high note, with the adoption ...

In 2026, Australia and the EU came closer through a free trade agreement and a security and defence partnership. This briefing provides a concise overview of the latest developments ...

China's unbalanced economic growth model is increasingly shifting the burden of adjustment to its trading partners which for many years have been insisting that the second leg of China's growth ...

Members gather for the April plenary session with an agenda addressing trade, multilateralism, violence against women, and greenhouse gas emissions. Parliament will also review the 2024 financial year ...

As of May 2025, 29 countries were full members of the Schengen area, where checks at their internal borders with other Schengen states are abolished (see Figure 3): • Germany, Belgium, France, ...

On 24 February 2026, the European Parliament held an extraordinary plenary session in Brussels, to mark the four-year anniversary of Russia's ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine.

In 2022, collective annual EU defence budgets had already increased to €240 billion, of which €58 billion (+24.2 % compared to 2021) was for defence investment (defence R&D and defence procurement), a ...