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The European Commission has approved a €4.5 million German State aid scheme for fishing and aquaculture companies facing increased fuel prices due to the Middle East crisis.

The European Commission has published an updated version of the guidance document to help stakeholders prepare for the implementation of the Digital Batteries Passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries.

EC-TRADE/2025/OP/0031: Monitoring of China’s economic policy and developments affecting the economic relations between the EU and China: development and maintenance of a foreign direct investment database (China Observatory)

The European Commission’s Internal Audit Service (IAS) will host its annual conference on 11 September 2026, in Brussels at the Charlemagne building.

Latest figures on Ukrainian exports and imports via the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes: new transport routes established in the face of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.

A study shows that seagrass meadows have the capacity to be one of the largest carbon sinks among plant ecosystems, with the Mediterranean holding the highest seagrass biomass carbon stock per hectare.

A new study exploring how urban green spaces influence noise levels suggests that smarter planning could help cities tackle one of today’s most pressing environmental health threats: noise pollution.

Microbes becoming resistant to antibiotics – known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – is a leading threat to global health. Tracing relevant genes in sewage could help address this challenge, according to recent research.

The impact of coincidental chemical mixtures is currently missing from EU regulations on chemical safety, according to a team of European scientists, who call for a ‘mixture allocation factor’ to be introduced.