The EU has made significant strides on many of its sustainable development goals, according to a 2026 monitoring of EU progress released Wednesday by the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat.
At a summit in Mexico City, the European Union and Mexico agreed to deepen their political and economic cooperation with the signing of a modernised global and interim trade agreement.
The European Commission has published a call for proposals to co-fund projects aiming to fight organised crime and drug trafficking and trafficking in human beings.
The European Commission has selected 65 projects under the EU’s ‘Innovation Fund Heat Auction’, the first ever EU-wide auction to accelerate the deployment of innovative clean heat technologies across European industry.
The EU Council has formally adopted the revised Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) regulation that grants EU trade preferences to developing countries.
Most provisions of the EU’s revised Waste Shipment Regulation entered into force on 21 May, including an electronic platform to digitally process waste shipments and additional measures to support recycling in the EU and better scrutiny on export of plastic waste.
The EU’s Spring 2026 Economic Forecast, published Thursday, is projecting weaker economic activity for Europe’s economy, a result of a reigniting of energy inflation caused by the conflict in the Middle East.
