Good afternoon, everybody. We just finished our in-person meeting of the Eurogroup. We began our meeting by welcoming Annika Saarikko, who is the new Finnish minister, to our meeting. The fact that we were able to greet her and meet physically for a se… read more
The Eurogroup discussed Greece’s progress with reform implementation and its macro-economic outlook, on the basis of the tenth enhanced surveillance report published on 2 June. After a sharp contraction of economic activity in 2020, the Commission’s Sp… read more
A five-billion-euro fund to overcome the consequences of the UK’s withdrawal came a big step closer to adoption today after the Council and the European Parliament reached a preliminary agreement on the draft regulation. The deal means that funding fro… read more
The new version of the document takes into account new evidence and information such as the circulation of variants of concern (VOCs) and the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination programmes. The new version also emphasises the need to keep non-pharmac… read more
With the active support of Europol, the Polish Border Guard (Straż Graniczna), together with the Internal Security Agency (Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego) and the National Police (Policja) has seized close to a hundred firearms in raids tackling a… read more