The European Council has been following the situation in the Middle East very closely since Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel of 7 October 2023. At its meeting on 17 October 2024, the European ...

The Council adopted an assistance measure worth €5 million under the European Peace Facility to support the navy of the ...

The Council adopted an assistance measure worth €20 million under the European Peace Facility to support the Egyptian Armed Forces.

The Council reached an agreement on new measures bringing the EU’s value added tax (VAT) rules into the digital age.

The Council today adopted changes to the EU legal framework on the development, production and dissemination of European statistics, marking a significant milestone in the modernisation of the ...

The Council has given the final green light to an EU law that regulates the conditions under which proceedings in a criminal ...

Buildings are responsible for around 50% of resource extraction and consumption and more than 30% of the EU's total waste each year. In addition, buildings are responsible for 40% of the EU's energy ...

The Council has today adopted conclusions on the special report of the Court of Auditors on the EU’s industrial policy on renewable hydrogen. The conclusions welcome the report, call for swift ...

Today, the Council formally adopted the amended regulation on European environmental economic accounts, the EU’s common statistical system which brings together economic and environmental information.

Today, the Council gave the final green light for a revised EU directive on urban wastewater treatment. The revised directive extends the scope to smaller agglomerations, covers more pollutants, ...

The Council approved the Commission’s positive assessment of the Netherlands’ and Czechia’s amended recovery and resilience plans.

The Council agrees with the Court’s conclusion that the EU must scale up investments in AI and facilitate access to digital infrastructure to be a globally competitive actor with a global impact, ...