There were 9.4 million beehives on EU farms in 2023, according to Eurostat, with the number of beehives increasing by 1.3 million (+16%), from 8.1 million in 2020.
According to preliminary data, life expectancy at birth in the EU was 81.7 years in 2024, up 0.3 years compared with 2023, according to data from the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat.
Europe must be able to take care of its own defence and security, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told Euro-MPs as she delivered her 2025 State of the European Union address.
The EU Parliament has given its final green light to measures to prevent and reduce waste from food and textiles across the EU, confirming 2030 targets on food waste and making producers cover costs of collecting, sorting and recycling waste textiles.
The European Commission has adopted the tentative allocation of EUR 150 billion in financial assistance to strengthen defence readiness across the Union.
The EU Commission has adopted a decision finding that Google breached EU competition rules by abusing its dominant position in the display advertising technology industry (‘Adtech’) and imposed a fine of EUR 2.95 billion.
The new JUPITER supercomputer, inaugurated by the European Commission and German Chancellor Merz at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, is officially the first European system to achieve the exascale threshold.
