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The new draft rules would reduce the required amount of sustainability reporting and simplify due diligence requirements for companies.
Committee on Legal Affairs

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The new draft rules would reduce the required amount of sustainability reporting and simplify due diligence requirements for companies.
Committee on Legal Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The lottery concept is often compared to the Danish model, where conscription is mandatory, but only a small amount is ever called up due to the high amount of volunteers

To help air passengers, MEPs suggest maintaining the current right to compensation after a three-hour delay, plus unlocking new rights on free children’s seats and cabin luggage.
Committee on Transport and Tourism

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

To help air passengers, MEPs suggest maintaining the current right to compensation after a three-hour delay, plus unlocking new rights on free children’s seats and cabin luggage.
Committee on Transport and Tourism

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The case is politically sensitive for Sánchez, as it touches former members of his inner circle

In Egypt, Trump and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will co-host a summit of world leaders to back his plan to end the Gaza war and promote Middle East peace

For regulators, finding the right balance between protecting the public interest and preserving market freedom is a delicate task. The current debate on the role and value of subcontracting initiated in the European Parliament by the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Johan Danielsson may seem as an illustration of this dilemma. The efforts to […]

As well as Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, and Slovakia, six non-EU countries received so-called "AI Antennas" – including Switzerland and the UK

Olivér Várhelyi has been a commissioner since 2019 and currently holds the portfolios of health and animal welfare

The European Research Area Act could also align rules on research security and using AI in science across countries

Germany’s foreign intelligence chief, Martin Jaeger, warned on Monday that Russia posed a direct threat and the current “icy peace” with the EU could erupt at any moment into “heated confrontation”. Jaeger told lawmakers that Russia was determined to expand its “sphere of influence further westward into Europe”. “To achieve this goal, Russia will not […]

In today's edition: Maritime emissions, CBAM, industrial decarbonisation

MEPs are upset that the French part of the EPP got away with voting against the Commission

"How to manage our own data, how to process our own data and how to use our own data is of great importance," Danish digital Minister Caroline Stage Olsen told Euractiv

Written by Tim Peters and Jakub Przetacznik with Ana Luisa Melo Almeida.

Updated on 07.10.2025

In response to Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine, which started in February 2022, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have provided unprecedented financial, military and humanitarian support to Ukraine. According to European Commission figures, Team Europe, consisting of the EU and its Member States, has made available around €173.5 billion in support to Ukraine. This support encompasses macro-financial assistance, financial support through the Ukraine Facility, humanitarian aid and military assistance from Member States and the European Peace Facility, as well as support to Ukrainian refugees in the EU.

The overall support for Ukraine provided by Team Europe is now larger than the support provided by the United States, except in terms of military support allocation, even though Team Europe has provided 83 % of the tanks and 61 % of the air defence systems given to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war.

The disbursement of EU payments is conditional on Ukraine implementing the Ukraine Plan – an ambitious reform and investment plan drafted by Ukraine’s government and endorsed by the EU. The G7 have agreed upon a further €45 billion loan, with €18.1 billion of the whole amount to be financed by the EU. For that purpose, a Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism has been established, which uses extraordinary revenues originating from Russian sovereign assets immobilised in the G7 member states to repay loans and associated interest costs. The European Parliament has repeatedly called for a full confiscation of immobilised Russian sovereign assets with the objective of making Russia pay for the destruction it has brought on Ukraine. The European Commission has proposed to use those assets for a ‘reparation loan’ to Ukraine.

Read the complete briefing on ‘State of Play: EU support to Ukraine‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

Team Europe financial, humanitarian and military support for Ukraine, February 2022 to September 2025, in € billion Bilateral and EU budget contributions to Ukraine by EU and non-EU Member States, 2022-2025, in € billion and as a % of GNI

Green groups warn 'debt-laden Global South' cannot fund clean energy without public finance

Climate-friendly energy tax rules would be delayed until 2030, almost a decade after their proposal

Leaders meet in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh today

'Highly exceptional' move by the Dutch government follows an emergency hearing by the Amsterdam Enterprise Chamber last week that removed Nexperia's director