#União Europeia

The European Parliament's hemicycle in Brussels, Belgium, in 2024.

European Parliament committee cuts the 2035 car CO2 target from 100% to 87.5%

European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, in an official European Commission photograph from December 2024.

Montenegro could close all its EU accession chapters by the end of 2026, European Commission says

The entrance to the seat of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, in Warsaw, in a photograph from 2016.

Poland's constitutional court president is suspended, and Tusk urges Nawrocki to swear in the judges elected by parliament

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, left, shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels in March 2025.

Belgian PM De Wever hands his government's resignation to King Philippe after 2027 budget talks collapse

The seat of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, pictured in January 2016.

Judge suspends the head of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal for a month, and Nawrocki turns his plane around

European Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen during a visit to the United Kingdom in June 2026.

Eleven EU countries will release 20.5 million barrels of diesel from strategic reserves by the end of January

European Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen, on the left, and European Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera at a press conference on the bloc's energy package in March 2026.

European gas tops €100 per MWh for the first time since December 2022, and Brussels warns of "another energy crisis"

The Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission, in the European quarter of Brussels, in 2015.

Brussels accepts Temu's plan against illegal products five months after fining it €200 million

The House of the National Assembly of Serbia in Belgrade, photographed in November 2023. Parliament has 250 seats, and 126 make a majority.

Student List wins Serbian election as Vučić concedes defeat after 14 years in power

President Iliana Yotova hands Andrey Gyurov, then deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, the mandate to form a caretaker cabinet, in February 2026. The two now face each other in the presidential runoff.

Bulgaria heads to a presidential runoff on 1 November after turnout of barely 22%

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (left) meeting Iran's Foreign Minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, at the Iranian foreign ministry in November 2025.

Seven foreign ministers launch the R4+E3 format in Istanbul, with the Strait of Hormuz at the top of the agenda

The headquarters of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, in May 2026.

International Criminal Court wins the 2026 Sakharov Prize, 13 days after the US sanctioned the court

European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen speaks during a visit to Germany in August 2026.

EU opens investigation into Booking.com over fake listings, phishing scams and unlabelled ads

The Palestinian village of Taybeh, in the West Bank, northeast of Jerusalem, in a 2005 photograph.

Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank, and Belgium says it will push for new EU sanctions

The Europa building, where the European Council meets, in Brussels, in 2013.

Zelenskyy asks for €70 billion for 2027, and the EU summit ends with no decision on the €210 billion in frozen Russian assets

The Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels in October 2022.

EU bought €197bn of Russian energy since 2022, European Commission says

European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, in an official portrait from December 2024.

EU opens two more accession clusters for Ukraine as Hungary lifts its veto

EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič speaks at the EU Export Day in September 2026.

EU and China agree to cap hybrid car imports into the bloc at 350,000 a year

Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in an official portrait from November 2024.

EU blacklists 1,569 companies and executives in Russia's military industry, its largest listing since 2022

Official portrait of Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, taken in November 2024.

EU sets up a support mission in Lebanon with a three-year mandate, 80 days before UNIFIL ends