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Browse through a selection of Featured EU news, see a comprehensive overview of the Latest EU news or read about past and upcoming events from all EU’s institutions and bodies. All are available in all 24 EU official languages via machine translation, when clicking on the full list of corresponding content.

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Read a selection of the featured news from across the EU's institutions and bodies.

Two female passengers waiting for their train on the platform
  • Press release

This summer, thousands of young people can travel around Europe by train for free thanks to the DiscoverEU programme. If you are 18 and live in an Erasmus+ programme country, apply by Tuesday 30 April at 12:00 CEST for your chance to win a free rail pass.

Participation of Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission,in the European Citizens’ Panel on Energy Efficiency
  • Press release

150 citizens from all over the EU have put together 13 new recommendations on energy efficiency after panel discussions in Brussels. The Commission has welcomed their input which will feed a proposal for a new EU law on energy efficiency.

Visit of Algirdas Šemeta, Member of the EC, to the port of Rotterdam
  • Press release

The new rules allow for better regulation and monitoring of harmful emissions from
industrial installations. This will protect human health and the environment, and promote energy efficiency, a circular economy and decarbonisation.

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