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EU rallies behind Breton as US sanctions test transatlantic ties

In today's edition: Mercosur, budget, pesticides

Greater EU-Mercosur market access will disadvantage US trade with both Europe and Mercosur nations. So we can expect the Trump administration to use diplomatic and other tools to try to stop the agreement

In today's edition: MEPs debate deepfakes, US-EU biometrics deal, UK mulls social media ban

Tuesday 20 January

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Tuesday 20 January

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In Tuesday’s edition: Breton’s sanctions relief, farmers, Davos, censure, cybersecurity

Brain disorders already affect around 165 million people in Europe and cost an estimated €800 billion every year in health care, social care and lost productivity. At the same time, Europe talks a lot about “competitiveness”, “strategic autonomy” and “AI leadership” often without mentioning the brains that actually power our economies. If we are serious about the next wave of innovation, we have to start from a simple point: using AI to improve brain health is not a side issue. It’s about protecting Europe’s brain power and its future growth. At a time when global leadership in AI-enabled life sciences is shifting rapidly, Europe cannot afford to move slower in one of its most complex and high-impact disease areas.

Courts, enforcement and pricing deals complicate Washington's tariff plans

Who is pulling the strings in the European Parliament as talks on the EU’s proposed €2 trillion budget are underway? Euractiv spoke to staffers to find out

The Commission's new security strategy is extremely similar to its Strategic Compass and other recent ideas

Remarks by Eurogroup President Kyriakos Pierrakakis on Bulgaria’s euro adoption, the Eurogroup’s work on euro area priorities, global economic challenges discussed at G7 level, and the endorsement on a candidate for ECB Vice-President.

Information about accreditation requirements for the Informal meeting of the members of the European Council taking place in Brussels on 22 January 2026

Doctors groups says an expansion of primary care and long-term solutions to reduce waiting times should be at the forefront of systemic healthcare changes as Sweden enters an election year

Boris Vujcic, 61, is head of the Croatian National Bank, a role he has been in since 2012

A medicine reserve plan via wholesalers merely delays the real solution of boosting local production over finite stockpiles, industry leader warns

Showing commitment to the Arctic, instead of engaging in rhetorics could send a clear sign to the other side of Washington 

The Parliament will renovate the Paul-Henri Spaak building in Brussels to bring it up to latest environmental, technical and security standards.

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The Parliament will renovate the Paul-Henri Spaak building in Brussels to bring it up to latest environmental, technical and security standards.

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For the proposal to be anything other than an exercise on paper, troops need to either be drawn down from elsewhere or newly recruited