The Panama Canal is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, making it an important trade and logistics hub.

The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), signed on 30 December 2020, was applied provisionally from 1 January 2021 and entered into force on 1 May 2021.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the launch of the Clean Industrial Deal (CID) within the first 100 days of the new mandate.

Recent advances in technology, methodologies, and substantial investment have brought significant progress in genetic research.

Highlights of the May I 2025 plenary session included the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, and Parliament statements on freedom, democracy and security as ...

Russia's war on Ukraine has been a wake-up call for many EU Member States' defence budgets. Rising from €218 billion in 2021 to €326 billion in 2024, a further increase of at least €100 billion is ...

Aiming to secure peace in Europe after the horrors of the Second World War, the Schuman Declaration proposed cooperation among European countries in two key economic areas central to rearmament and ...

In 2022, collective annual EU defence budgets had already increased to €240 billion, of which €58 billion (+24.2 % compared to 2021) was for defence investment (defence R&D and defence procurement), a ...