The EU imported some €534.1 billion worth of high-tech products in 2025 and exported €566.5 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of €32.4 billion, according to 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.
478 early-career researchers from across Europe are to receive ‘Starting Grants’, worth a total of EUR 761 million, under EU’s Horizon Europe programme.
