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The Commission has opened a 4-week consultation on how to facilitate the take-up of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) – long-term bilateral contracts typically concluded between generators and corporate consumers. This call for evidence will feed into the Commission’s work assessing the regulatory and non-regulatory barriers that hamper the development of PPAs with a view to publishing […]

On 19-20 January 2026, a Social Protection Committee Peer Review on Equal Access to goods and services for person with disabilities through reasonable accommodation and accessibility measures was held in Berlin. It was proposed by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Peer countries that joined the review were: Belgium Spain Hungary Slovenia […]

Today, the European Commission published a study assessing the application of selected provisions of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED). The study examines how key elements of the directive are applied in practice, focusing on 5 priority areas: the proportionality principle in patent injunction cases, the role and impact of Patent Assertion Entities in […]

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On 12-13 January, the European Commission held the launch event for its Expert Group Network for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in Brussels. The EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, opened the event with a keynote speech and officially launched the expert group.   By creating the Prevention Network as an official […]

Today, Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva, hosted the third European Startup and Scaleup Forum in Brussels, bringing together founders, investors and other industry leaders from across Europe.  Eight months after the adoption of the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, the Forum provided an opportunity to take stock of implementation progress, assess early impact and […]

At today’s North Sea Summit in Hamburg, leaders and energy ministers of the North Sea region committed to cooperate closely to speed up the development of stable, secure and affordable offshore energy and hydrogen and make European industry more globally competitive.  Today’s renewed commitment comes against the backdrop of a changing geopolitical landscape, high energy […]

The Commission has published its assessment of Belgium’s final updated National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP). Outlining the Belgian plan for achieving its 2030 energy and climate targets, the final updated plan provides revised projections that mark some improvements compared to the draft updated plan. Belgium has raised its ambition relative to the previous version, but additional efforts […]

Across Europe, a growing share of farmland is managed by farmers over 55, while fewer than one in ten are under 40. Many older farmers wish to retire but face uncertainty about how to, or to whom, pass on their farm. For younger generations, meanwhile, unclear succession rules and limited opportunities delay their entry into […]

At the North Sea Summit in Hamburg today, Germany and Denmark reached an agreement on the Bornholm Energy Island project to develop offshore wind energy.  This marks a first key delivery of the Energy Highways initiative set out as part of the European Grids Package published in December 2025. A first-of-its kind project, the wind farm […]