🌊Coastal Communities: supports the 95 million people living along Europe’s 70,000km coastline, strengthens the blue economy and helps protect coastal ecosystems.
🏝️Islands: focuses on better connectivity, sustainable development, climate resilience and improved quality of life.
Europe’s coasts and islands are home to millions of people, businesses and communities and face growing pressures from climate change and economic challenges.
Today, we present two new strategies to help them thrive.
Europe had to adapt after some of the hardest years in our recent memory, including a global pandemic, an energy crisis and rising inflation, and the return of war on the European continent.
This budget reflects that. A budget to make Europe work better for its people. 🇪🇺
We have proposed the EU budget for 2027! 💶
Almost €200 billion directed toward shared priorities:
💶 Strong and competitive economy
🇺🇦 Continued support for Ukraine
🛡️ Stronger defence
🌾 Agriculture
🏠 Affordable housing
⚡️ Energy transition
🎓🚆 Key EU programmes
We've issued an interim order requiring Meta to restore free access to WhatsApp for rival AI assistants.
Our ongoing antitrust investigation aims to prevent dominant platforms from shutting out smaller innovators.
For a fair, competitive digital space ↓
link.europa.eu/PBmmVF
Today, we are putting forward a 21st package of sanctions, focusing on the sectors that hit the hardest:
🔸Energy
🔸Financial services and crypto
🔸Trade
We are also banning the entry of former Russian combatants into the EU.
We stand with Ukraine, now, and for however long it
Our sanctions keep biting hard and cutting deep.
🔸Sanctions have cut Russia off from global capital markets.
🔸Russia’s economy is slowing sharply.
🔸Its budget is under growing pressure.
Our consistency is paying off.
Our sanctions are working.
They are weakening the economic foundations of Russia’s war effort.
Today we double down.
With a 21st package.
Covering energy, banks & crypto, trade including fisheries and visa for Russian soldiers ↓
We have successfully concluded negotiations on Australia’s association to @HorizonEU.
Together, our researchers will drive progress in clean tech, digital transformation, health and climate resilience.
More: link.europa.eu/MvtmJ8
Good call on competitiveness with leaders ahead of the upcoming EUCO.
The work starts at home.
By lowering energy costs.
And making life easier for businesses across Europe.
But it does not end there.
Imbalances and overcapacities in global trade pose challenges.
We will
We stand firmly and unequivocally with Ukraine and its people.
We have made a new disbursement under the Ukraine Facility, our key instrument to support Ukraine's recovery, reform agenda and progress towards EU membership.
Find out more: link.europa.eu/NvGGnr
🇪🇺 On 7–10 June 1979, nine nations voted together for Europe — for the first time in history.
180 million eligible voters. One shared ballot.
That vote started a project about what European democracy should look like.
47 years on, it's still going strong.
Let's protect it.