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Europe is making a list, checking it twice… and upgrading its trains to high-speed – nice! 🚄 While you are sipping hot chocolate, we are cooking up 200+ km/h rail magic: ✨ Faster journeys: Berlin → Copenhagen in 4hr instead of 7hr 🚆 New routes: Lisbon–Madrid–Paris and Tallinn–Riga–Vilnius–Warsaw 🌙 More night trains for long trips 🎫 One ticket for your whole journey, and easier booking across borders By 2040, your holidays might just start on the rails. 👉

Mobility and Transport

High-speed rail plan

Connecting Europe, shortening travel time.

Santa can keep the toys… What we really want for Christmas: people before algorithms.

This week, our rules on reducing plastic pellets, a major source of microplastics in the environment, came into force: 🧹 companies must have spill clean-up and risk management plans for packaging, handling, and equipment 🚛 non-EU carriers must have an EU representative 📃 operators handling >1500 tonnes of pellets annually need to obtain a certificate of compliance ⛴️ requirements for maritime transport For us, our oceans and wildlife. 🔗

Environment

New law reducing microplastic pollution enters into force

The new rules will help ensure fair competition across the Single Market and support Europe’s transition to a sustainable economy.

🐾🎄Travelling with your pets for Christmas and New Year's? Totally paws-ible! Just ask your festive furry friend. They spotted the holiday suitcase and knew it was time to jingle all the way, grabbing the essentials: ✅EU Pet Passport ✅Microchip ✅Rabies vaccine (depending on the destination) ✅Holiday treats (ho ho ho!) ✅Maximum festive cuteness The best holiday cheer sometimes comes on four legs with a jingly collar and a waggily tail! 🐶🐱 More →

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Travelling with your pets in Europe

Travelling with your pets in the EU? Find out which documents you need to take, including EU pet passports and animal health certificates.

The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+! Negotiations for the United Kingdom’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027 have been concluded. It will offer significant opportunities across education, training, sports, and youth, giving people the chance to connect across borders once again. This follows the EU-UK Strategic Partnership agreed at the first ever Summit in May. A step forward for youth, education, and cooperation, together again. 🤝 More:

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Joint Statement by Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency Maroš Šef\u010Dovi\u010D and HM Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office The Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds MP

In May, the United Kingdom and the European Union held their first ever Summit and agreed to strengthen cooperation through a new strategic partner...

Europe is betting big on open science and collaboration. In 2026–2027, Horizon Europe will put €14 billion into research that matters: 🌱 Clean tech for real climate action 🧠 Ethical AI and better healthcare 💡 Support for startups and innovators Participation is simpler, talent is welcome everywhere. Science for people. Progress we share. Here's how:

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Commission invests €14 billion through Horizon Europe to boost global research and innovation leadership*

Today, the European Commission adopted the main Horizon Europe work programme for 2026-2027, a €14 billion investment designed to drive resear...

Digital education is education. Digital literacy is the 4th basic skill! Europeans want schools to teach media literacy, protect mental wellbeing online, and prepare students to navigate AI responsibly. A new Flash Eurobarometer is out:

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Digital skills should receive the same amount of attention at school as reading, mathematics, and science latest Eurobarometer reveals

Nine in ten Europeans would include digital skills into education at all levels, according to a new Eurobarometer survey published today.

Let’s get to the point. In the EU, you have more control over what you see online. Learn more: 👉

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How the EU protects you online

Discover how the EU empowers and protects you online, from social media to online shopping.

10 years of the Paris Agreement 🎉 🇪🇺 In 2015, the EU brought together over 190 countries to adopt the first universal, legally binding global climate treaty. We remain committed to the Paris and European Green Deal goals: 🌿 Reach climate neutrality by 2050 ⚡ Cut emissions and boost clean energy 🌱 Protect nature and biodiversity 🏙️ Invest in green innovation 💼 Ensure a fair transition for all Together, we’re building a sustainable, stronger, more resilient future for Europe and beyond. 🇪🇺

📉 Lower energy prices and affordable living for Europeans. The European Grids Package plans to modernise our infrastructure, enabling free and secure flow across EU countries. Clean, affordable, homegrown energy to every corner of our Union. We also propose: ⚖️ transparent cost-sharing for cross-border projects, to avoid unfair burdens on consumers ⚡stronger coordination between European and national levels 📨 simplified permitting procedures for energy projects 🔗

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Commission proposes upgrade of the EU\

The backbone of European energy system, the grids infrastructure, will be modernised and expanded to unleash its full potential.