The Eurogroup has elected Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance of Ireland, as its President for a third term.

Public debt in the euro area stabilized at around 90% of GDP in 2024, with a slight increase projected in 2025 and 2026, after a significant decline between 2020 and 2023. The euro area public deficit ...

Greening freight transport is another key step toward cutting emissions, as freight makes up over 30% of transport-related ...

The Council today renewed the EU restrictive measures in view of the Russian Federation’s continuing actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine for a further 6 months, until 31 January 2026. These ...

Transport safety is a shared competence: while the EU sets the framework and standards, national authorities implement and ...

The first EU-Moldova summit was held on 4 July 2025 in Chișinău. At the joint press conference, European Council President António Costa reaffirmed that Moldova's future is within the EU. He commended ...

European Council President António Costa was in Chișinău for the first EU-Moldova summit. In his opening remarks at the start of the plenary session, he emphasised Moldova’s steady progress on its EU ...

The press briefing ahead of the Eurogroup meeting will take place on Thursday, 3 July at 14.00. The briefing will be "off the record" and will be given by Tuomas Saarenheimo, President of the ...

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) is an EU funding programme designed to enhance infrastructure across the continent. The initiative aims to support investments in high-performing, sustainable ...

We will only have a world at peace if we ensure sustainable development. Ten years ago, the world made a commitment to its own future: the Sustainable Development Goals. A decade later, we still have ...

President António Costa travelled to Aarhus (Denmark) to attend the opening ceremony of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU where he delivered a speech.

The EU and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) have issued a joint statement reaffirming their commitment to the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable ...