A majority of EU citizens supports a larger EU budget to overcome the pandemic. Public health is the priority, followed by economic recovery and climate change.

On 15 October the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), with support from the EUIPO’s European cooperation projects, completed its technical stack upgrade of the designs front office system. This followed a set of improvements to the back office system on 10 October.

In the week ending 16 October 2020 the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) decreased by EUR 0.9 billion to EUR 304.7 billion.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed a new partnership agreement to scale up their support to countries facing situations of emergency caused by epidemics, natural disasters, conflict and other types of fragility.

The United Kingdom’s new ambassador to Hungary, Paul Fox, said his aim during his tenure in his post would be to “maintain and further strengthen the friendship and collaboration” between the two countries. In an introductory video on Facebook, Fox named climate change, environment protection, trade, investment, academic and scientific cooperation, strengthening shared democratic values, […]

The Mayor of Copenhagen has resigned with immediate effect after admitting to several allegations of sexual harassment.

Four school students are among 15 people who have been taken into custody in France following the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who showed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils.

Players are returning to the Bundesliga from international duty, and they are bringing the coronavirus with them.

Lithuania has introduced COVID-19-friendly voting booths as citizens head to the polls for the second round of national elections. Some citizens cast ballots from their cars in special drive-in polling stations amid a spike in COVID-19 infections. Voters were instructed to arrive alone in their vehicles, wear face masks, and drop their votes into ballot […]

The Council today renewed the EU sanctions regime against ISIL/Da’esh and Al-Qaida and the related list of people subject to restrictive measures for another year until 31 October 2021. The decision was taken in light of the ongoing terrorist threat.