Housing demand varies considerably between Member States and regions, reflecting diverse demographic and market conditions. In one third of all NUTS 3 regions, construction did not manage to keep up with expanding demographic trends. Metropolitan areas have experienced strong household growth, partly due to smaller average household sizes. In contrast, [...]

Source: FORDAQ Washington has unveiled a significant hike in import duties on goods from South Korea, lifting tariffs from 15% to 25% on a range of products such as cars, timber, and pharmaceuticals. The decision, announced by President Donald Trump, was justified by what the US administration described as Seoul’s [...]

Today the EU and India concluded negotiations for a significant free trade agreement (FTA), the largest such deal ever concluded by either side.  The target of the agreement is to strengthen economic and political ties between the world's second and fourth largest economies. More information is available here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_184 On the EU [...]

Ukraine has extended export restrictions on unprocessed timber and fuelwood until the end of 2026, reinforcing a strategic push toward domestic value-added processing and energy security for rural regions. The decision was adopted at the Cabinet’s final meeting of the year and sets a licensing regime with zero quotas, effectively [...]

Source: European Commission The EU is setting a legally binding climate target of 90% reduction in net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2040. The Commission welcomes last night's provisional political agreement between the European Parliament and EU Member States on this headline target and the amendment of the EU Climate Law. [...]

Source: European Commission On 10th December, the European Commission presented a package of measures to simplify environmental legislation in the areas of industrial emissions, circular economy, environmental assessments and geospatial data. The changes will contribute to reducing the administrative burden for businesses, while keeping the EU's ambitious objectives to protect the [...]

The open public consultation for the future European Integrated Framework for Climate Resilience was published on the 1st of December, and it is open for 12 weeks, until 23 February at noon – Open Public Consultation. This initiative will set out an integrated framework to support EU countries in ensuring [...]

The negotiators from both institutions needed less than an hour on 4 December to harmonise their positions on the revision of this regulation. Their stances on the text were very similar: postponement of the application of the regulation by one year (to 30 December 2026), administrative simplifications for small operators [...]

27 Nov 2025 · Source: European Commission Today, the Commission adopted a new Strategic Framework for a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy, charting a way forward to build a clean, competitive and resilient European economy. By using renewable biological resources from land and sea and providing alternatives to critical raw [...]