According to the ECA's special report of 6 May 2026, information on recipients, actual costs and results achieved under the current Recovery and Resilience Facility is insufficient.
Gaps in transparency and traceability must be taken into account in the negotiations on the future EU budgets. [...]
On 22 January 2026, Frontex and the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) signed a new Working Arrangement to support Member States by providing technical and operational
assistance in the areas of migration, return, asylum, and reception. [...]
A Joint Investigation Team (JIT), set up and funded by Eurojust and supported by Europol, has exposed an operation involving self-igniting parcels. The team comprises authorities
from Germany, Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. [...]
Online platforms in the EU reversed nearly 50 million content moderation decisions following user appeals. This is one of the achievements reported by the Commission on 17
February 2026, two years after the applicability of the EU's Digital Services Act. [...]
In response to the growing presence of terrorist content on audio-sharing platforms, Europol coordinated the largest Referral Action Day to date at the beginning of March 2026,
targeting propaganda used by groups across the ideological spectrum, including jihadist and violent right-wing extremist networks. [...]
On 26 February 2026, the Council strengthened the EU’s counterterrorism sanctions regime by expanding the scope of the EU terrorist list and updating its legal framework.
On 26 February 2026, the European Commission presented a new ProtectEU agenda to prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism in the EU. The agenda aims to update the
Union’s response to an evolving threat landscape, including online radicalisation, the growing involvement of minors, the misuse of new technologies, and increasing [...]
The ECJ has clarified the legal status of binding decisions adopted under the GDPR’s consistency mechanism, holding that decisions of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)
that resolve disputes between national supervisory authorities constitute acts open to challenge before the EU Courts. [...]
On 20 January 2026, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted Joint Opinion 1/2026 on the Commission’s proposal
for a Digital Omnibus on AI, which seeks to simplify the implementation of the AI Act. [...]
UNESCO has launched a free online course on artificial intelligence and its use in judicial systems. The programme, entitled AI, Justice, and the Rule of Law, was developed
together with the Saïd Business School, the Blavatnik School of Government, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, with support from the European Union. [...]
