This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has disbursed more than €9.8 billion to Poland, Sweden, Belgium, Estonia and Cyprus under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. These payments reflect the successful fulfilment of key milestones and targets linked to reforms and investments set […]Poland, Sweden, Belgium, Estonia and Cyprus receive more than €9.8 billion under NextGenerationEU
October 2, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has disbursed more than €9.8 billion to Poland, Sweden, Belgium, Estonia and Cyprus under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. These payments reflect the successful fulfilment of key milestones and targets linked to reforms and investments set […]EU support to research and innovation increases with additional €500 million for research programme Horizon Europe
September 30, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission allocated an additional €500 million to Horizon Europe, the EU’s flagship research and innovation programme, for 2026 and 2027. With this additional amount, the total budget reaches now around €14.8 billion for the two years. In addition, the Commission will […]EU advances Global Health Resilience Initiative with new Global Gateway investments in Africa and Latin America
September 24, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. In the context of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week, the European Commission has announced three new Global Gateway investments that put the EU Global Health Resilience Initiative into action in partner countries. The package includes an EU guarantee of €63.5 million designed to mobilise private investment […]EU launches first €43 million Team Gaza projects to help restore essential services
September 24, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the first flagship early recovery projects under the EU-led Team Gaza Initiative were signed by Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Šuica in the margins of the UN General Assembly High-Level Week in New York. The projects, together worth a total of €43 million, will help restore essential water and solid […]Commission issues €11 billion in its 8th syndicated transaction of 2026
September 16, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has raised €11 billion of EU-Bonds in its 8th syndicated transaction for 2026. The dual-tranche transaction concerned a €6 billion new 3-year EU-Bond maturing on 12 March 2030 and a €5 billion new 30-year EU-Bond maturing on 12 October 2056. Building on the pricing of recent […]Restoring Europe’s wetlands to combat climate change and boost economies
September 15, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission’s Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine. Wetlands are surprisingly effective at locking away carbon. Marshes, floodplains and peatlands together cover less than a tenth of the Earth’s surface, yet peatlands alone hold around a third of all the carbon stored in soil worldwide. […]Guterres: Old global order must change as power shifts to emerging economies
September 14, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. UN Secretary-General António Guterres told leaders of a bloc of major emerging economies in New Delhi on Sunday that a more balanced global order requires an overhaul of the institutions built after the Second World War, including the UN Security Council. The group – Brazil, Russia, India, […]UN climate chief warns political division is undermining fight against ‘economic security emergency’
September 11, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The head of the UN’s climate body has warned that treating global warming as a partisan issue is dangerously out of step with reality, as he set out a stark account of the economic toll climate change is already inflicting on Europe. Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the […]Ships and seafarers increasingly caught in the crossfire of unrelated wars
September 10, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The global shipping industry is facing a “genuinely unprecedented” convergence of maritime crises, with vessels and seafarers increasingly used as “leverage” in conflicts that have nothing to do with them. Four regions – the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea, the waters off Somalia, and the Black […]Statement in context of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meetings on 31 August and 1 September, in Asheville, US
September 1, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Union has consistently urged Iran to curb its nuclear programme, and its ballistic missile programme, refrain from destabilising activities in the region and in Europe, stop its military support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and cease the violence and repression […]Romanian businesses to get extra financing as EIB provides €100 million credit to BRD Sogelease IFN
August 7, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending €100 million to the leasing subsidiary of BRD Groupe Société Générale to increase financing for businesses across Romania. The EIB loan to BRD Sogelease IFN SA will benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Mid-Caps pursuing a range of […]Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, and Slovenia receive more than €1.86 billion under NextGenerationEU
August 4, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has disbursed today more than €1.86 billion to Belgium, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Denmark under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. These payments reflect the successful fulfilment of key milestones and targets linked to reforms and investments set out in the four Member States’ national recovery and […]Commission greenlights Sweden’s payment request for €1.47 billion under NextGenerationEU
July 23, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission positively assessed Sweden’s second payment request for €1.47 billion under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. This is an important step in the delivery of the reforms and investments included in this payment request, which aim to support the green transition, a better functioning of the labour and housing markets, as well as […]Commission greenlights Estonia’s fourth payment request for €135.5 million under NextGenerationEU
July 17, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission positively assessed Estonia’s fourth payment request under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. This payment request reflects significant progress across a wide range of reforms aimed at driving positive change for citizens and businesses in Estonia, […]Commission takes action to ensure complete and timely transposition of EU directives
July 16, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission is taking action against several EU Member States that have failed to notify the Commission of measures they have adopted to transpose EU Directives into their national laws. The deadline to transpose these Directives has expired recently. The Commission is sending […]EU Global Gateway strategy: EIB and BIIC strengthen strategic agricultural value chains for benefit of Benin and Europe
July 14, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. The European Investment Bank (EIB), via its specialised arm for development and international partnerships – EIB Global – and the Banque internationale pour l’industrie et le commerce (BIIC) today announced the start of a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening financing for Beninese small and medium-sized enterprises […]Commission approves €2 billion Hungarian capital injection into development bank Magyar Fejlesztési Bank
July 14, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a capital injection worth €2 billion (HUF 760 billion) by Hungary into the development bank Magyar Fejlesztési Bank (MFB). The measure will be funded by the Recovery and Resilience Facility (‘RRF’). The Hungarian measure […]Commission greenlights Cyprus’s sixth payment request for €120 million under NextGenerationEU
July 14, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission positively assessed Cyprus’s sixth payment request under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. The reforms and investments tied to this payment request will drive positive change for citizens and businesses in Cyprus, notably in the areas of health, […]Parliament backs modernised EU-Mexico partnership and easier trade
July 13, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. On Wednesday, MEPs gave their green light to two agreements paving the way for closer political ties and expanded trade between EU and Mexico. The EU-Mexico modernised global agreement (MGA) will replace the current framework, in place since 2000, promoting new opportunities for business, […]Digital euro: MEPs ready to start negotiations
July 10, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. On Thursday, plenary backed talks with the Council on a digital euro proposal that would offer citizens a secure way to reduce reliance on non-EU providers. With 416 votes in favour, 169 against and 22 abstentions for the creation of a digital euro, and […]Commission issues €11 billion in its seventh syndicated transaction of 2026
July 8, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has raised €11 billion of EU-Bonds in its 7th syndicated transaction for 2026. The dual-tranche transaction concerned a €6 billion new 5-year EU-Bond maturing on 13 October 2031, and a €5 billion tap of the 20-year EU-Bond maturing on 12 October […]Commission greenlights Belgium’s fourth payment request for €567 million under NextGenerationEU
July 3, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission positively assessed Belgium’s fourth payment request for €567 million under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. This is an important step in the delivery of the reforms and investments tied to this payment request, in the […]Start-up to Scale-up: EIF, HBOR and Croatia scale up partnership to boost venture financing in the country
June 30, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with European Investment Bank. Hrvatsku inačicu preuzmite ovdje Over the past eight years, the partnership between the European Investment Fund (EIF), the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds of the Republic of Croatia and the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) has mobilised €270 million in public investment […]Commission approves State aid for Romania’s investment and development bank
June 26, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, Romanian measures for the national investment and development bank Banca de Investiții și Dezvoltare S.A. (‘BID’). In January 2023, the Commission approved a Romanian measure to set up BID with an initial capital of […]EU launches Connectivity Agenda Platform to strengthen links between Europe and Central Asia through the Black Sea region and the South Caucasus
June 23, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission launched the Connectivity Agenda Platform and concluded agreements with international financial institutions expected to mobilise up to €2 billion for strategic connectivity investments in the Black Sea region and the South Caucasus. The Platform was unveiled at a high-level ministerial […]Commission greenlights Bulgaria’s fourth payment request under NextGenerationEU
June 19, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission greenlighted Bulgaria’s fourth payment request under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. The Commission found that Bulgaria has satisfactorily completed 23 out of 26 milestones and targets set out in the Council Implementing Decision. The reforms and investments tied to this payment request […]Navigating crises and delivering results with the EU Budget in 2025
June 16, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the College of Commissioners adopted the Annual Management and Performance Report for 2025 (AMPR). The AMPR highlights the key role the EU budget played in navigating multiple crises that year and shows that it continued to deliver for European citizens. The EU budget […]Commission greenlights Slovenia’s sixth payment request for €41 million under NextGenerationEU
June 10, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission positively assessed Slovenia’s sixth payment request for €41 million under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. This is an important step in the delivery of the reforms and investments tied to this payment request, which aims to support Slovenia’s […]Commission issues €8 billion in its sixth syndicated transaction of 2026
June 10, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Commission has raised €8 billion of EU-Bonds in its 6th syndicated transaction for 2026. The dual-tranche transaction concerned a €3 billion tap 5-year EU-Bond,maturing on 14 October 2030 and a €5 billion tap of the 15-year EU-Bond,maturing on 12 December 2040. Building […]One Europe, One Market: from strategy to delivery – EESC, CoR and EP discuss the EU’s new roadmap for a truly unified market
June 9, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Economic and Social Committee. Insufficient enforcement of common EU rules, threats to consumer confidence, excessive complexity for SMEs and a loss of competitiveness in the digital sector are among the greatest challenges facing the Single Market. The EU has a duty to protect it in […]Commission adopts temporary adjustments to Basel III Market Risk Rules to safeguard EU banks’ competitiveness
June 5, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. To ensure that the EU banking sector benefits from a level playing field with international competitors, the European Commission has today introduced targeted, time-limited amendments to its implementation of the new market risk capital framework for banks. The measures will apply for three years […]2026 Justice Scoreboard highlights importance of effective justice systems for EU competitiveness and Single Market
June 4, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the European Commission published the fourteenth edition of the EU Justice Scoreboard, an annual report providing comparative data on the efficiency, quality, and independence of the justice systems among EU Member States. The 2026 edition shows an improved perception of the independence and […]Remarks by Commissioner Dombrovskis at informal ECOFIN press conference
May 26, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Thank you, Minister. Good morning, everyone. It’s a pleasure to be back here in Nicosia. We held a number of constructive exchanges over the course of this informal ECOFIN meeting. We started our discussions with competitiveness. Europe’s productivity and growth problems are not new. […]
