In 2025, citizens from across the European Union (EU) and beyond engaged actively with the European Parliament and its President, Roberta Metsola, through the Citizens' Enquiries Unit (Ask EP). The ...

This briefing is about a timely and cost-efficient modernisation of the European energy infrastructure, which is one of the key challenges in the ongoing energy transition in the EU.

A special plenary session will take place in Brussels on 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination ...

The highlight of the first plenary session of 2026 was the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Spain and Portugal's accession to the European Union, marked with a formal sitting addressed by His ...

A number of stakeholders have warned that civic space in Europe is shrinking, with civil society organisations (CSOs) facing a growing range of threats, from attacks on their staff to smear and ...

Tax fragmentation across Member States continues to undermine the functioning of the EU single market. Legal uncertainty and administrative complexity create persistent obstacles to cross-border ...

Following a strategy of maximum pressure since January 2025, the United States intervened militarily in January 2026, captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and arraigned them in New York ...

The liberalisation of the EU air transport market, completed in 1997 and consolidated under Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008, expanded routes, lowered fares, and increased passenger numbers to over ...

EPRS traditionally opens the year with a look ahead to the issues and trends that will be high on the EU agenda. On Wednesday 14 January it presented its outlook ‘Ten issues to watch in 2026’, a ...