The European Commission will on Wednesday seek to dispel the concerns of some EU members over a free trade agreement planned with South American bloc Mercosur and 25 years in the making that could be signed as early as next week.

EADaily, January 5th, 2026. There is nothing in common between the capture of Venezuela and Greenland. Parallels between these things are unacceptable. Such a statement at a briefing in The statement was made in Brussels by the head of the press service of the European

The European Commission has set out its plans to pursue a circular economy for plastics in 2026, such as proposing a Circular Economy Act, enforcing end-of-life criteria for mechanical recyclate, and introducing new customs codes for imports.

Safeguards proposed by the European Union to protect EU steel mills from the impact of imports would lead to crippling price hikes for European manufacturers, a lobby group representing European steel-using industries said on Tuesday.

EADaily, January 6th, 2026. The European Commission has agreed to Romania's proposal to create a European maritime security hub on the Black Sea. This was announced today, January 6, by Romanian MEP Victor Negrescu.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Syria later this week, marking her first trip to the country since the

Shingrix, a recombinant zoster vaccine, combines glycoprotein E antigen with an adjuvant system called AS01B. It has been approved in the European Union for preventing herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia in adults aged 50 years or older since 2018, and for adults 18 years or older at increased risk since 2020.

The European Commission said on Tuesday that it aims to alleviate farmers' concerns about significant cuts in the EU budget in light of ongoing protests. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed amending her agency's existing plans for the establishment of the new multi-annual budget for the bloc.

Officials in the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) were concerned that plans to introduce Freedom of Information legislation would result in sources in Europe drying up – to Ireland ’s “great disadvantage” – files from 1995 show.