Council approves conclusions on the importance of research and innovation for the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy.

The Council also calls on EU Member States and the Commission to coordinate efforts to build and connect research ...

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Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on the parliamentary elections in Moldova held on 28.

The Council today adopted a regulation that simplifies and strengthens the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), as ...

On 29 September 2025, European Council President António Costa was in Madrid at the New Economy Forum to give a speech after receiving the Forum Europa Prize from the King of Spain.

The Council reimposed all the restrictive measures against Iran that had been lifted after the introduction of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in July 2015 in light of UN Security Council’s ...

Today the Council adopted the soil monitoring law to track soil health, manage contaminated sites and mitigate land take, aiming for healthy soils by 2050.

The Council has adopted a regulation that will improve the overall quality of population and housing statistics collected at EU level by establishing a common legal framework for data collection.

The Council prolonged sanctions regime by one year, in the light of the political and social situation in Nicaragua.

The Council and European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on a regulation that would strengthen the role of Europol ...

Israel/Palestine: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the closure of the Allenby/King ...