News

Today, Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification Valdis Dombrovskis and Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos met Türkiye's Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek in Brussels for a High-Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) between the European Union and Türkiye.

Thousands of young people will soon have the chance to explore Europe for free with DiscoverEU. The European Commission has opened applications for a new DiscoverEU round, making nearly 36,000 travel passes available to 18-year-olds across Europe.

The new legislation, including Foreign Agents Registration Act and Law on Broadcasting, adopted by the parliament, without due public consultations, give additional tools to the Georgian authorities to supress dissent and tighten the policy of repression.

The Ukraine Donor Platform’s Steering Committee held its thirteenth meeting today, gathering for the second time in person in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. The meeting brought together senior representatives of Platform members, observers, as well as International Financial Institutions.

The European Commission continues to support Ukraine by disbursing a third regular payment of nearly €3.5 billion as part of the Ukraine Facility. This funding, which is under the first pillar of the EU's Ukraine Facility, will enhance Ukraine's macro-financial stability...

Starting today, municipalities in the Western Balkans can apply to benefit from the WiFi4WB (Wi-Fi for Western Balkans) initiative, which will provide free Wi-Fi hotspots to up to 500 municipalities across the Western Balkans.

We had a very good meeting of the Coalition of the Willing. The Coalition of the Willing has gotten bigger, stronger and very determined. I have basically three key takeaways. The first was the broad discussion we had on how to step up the support for Ukraine in the short term...

Tomorrow, Executive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto and Commissioner Marta Kos will kick-start the much anticipated Interreg GO! event held in the twin cities of Gorizia, Italy, and Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The two cities are the European Capitals of Culture in 2025.

Now it is only two weeks after we last met, that you, António, have gathered us here again today. I think it was a very productive meeting. We discussed indeed competitiveness, and I presented our Competitiveness Compass with a Clean Industrial Deal...