The European Commission has approved the disbursement of a total of €4.1 billion to four EU member states - Greece, Portugal, Slovenia and Austria - under the Recovery...
The European Commission has adopted the 2026 European Semester Autumn Package, setting out economic and employment policy priorities to boost competitiveness. In an increasingly challenging geopolitical environment, the Commission calls...
A leaked draft of the European Commission’s new cardiovascular health plan sets out broad ambitions for preventing heart disease, including a proposal for an EU-wide tax on...
As global uncertainty grows, the urgency of fighting poverty and supporting the most vulnerable has never been greater. That is the keynote message behind a letter sent...
In 2023, 4.1 women out of every million women were victims of intentional homicide, by family members or intimate partners, in the EU, nearly double the rate...
During a tense meeting of the Parliament’s taxation committee (FISC) on 20 November 2025, the European Commission defended its proposal on tobacco taxation, facing strong opposition...
European Ombudswoman Teresa Anjinho (pictured) has found a number of “procedural shortcomings” in how the European Commission prepared several legislative proposals that it considered urgent. Taken together...