European Council

The EU is speeding up the completion of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) by streamlining its permit-granting processes.

The EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) will continue to fund key infrastructure projects in the areas of transport, digital and energy.

2021 G7 Leaders' communiqué: Our shared agenda for global action to build back better

At the end of the 2021 G7 summit, European Council President Charles Michel highlighted the main achievements of the European Union in its discussions with the G7 partners during their three-day meeting..

The Council reaches a general approach on the revision of the trans-European energy network (TEN-E) Regulation. The objective is to modernise, decarbonise and interconnect the EU’s cross-border energy infrastructure in order to help the EU achieve its 2050 climate neutrality objectives.

The Council today approved conclusions on a renovation wave strategy that aims to intensify renovation efforts throughout the EU, in order to make the necessary contribution by the buildings sector to the 2050 climate neutrality goal and to deliver a fair and just green transition.

Press briefing ahead the EU-US summit of 15 June 2021

Press briefing ahead the EU-Canada summit of 14 June 2021

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

EU-Canada Summit on 14 and 15 June 2021

EU-US Summit on 15 June

Council approves EU-UK agreement on fishing opportunities.

The EU issued a declaration on the deteriorating political situation in Nicaragua firmly condemning the actions of the Nicaraguan authorities against opposition parties, media, journalists and civil society, including the systematic detention and arrest of presidential candidates and opposition leaders.

At the press conference ahead of the G7 summit, under the UK presidency, European Council President Charles Michel expressed the wish that the G7 is capable of addressing today's biggest challenges: defeating COVID-19, ensuring a strong economic recovery, fighting climate change.

The Council today approved conclusions endorsing a new EU strategy on climate adaptation.

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

The EU issued a declaration on the ruling by a Moscow Court to label Alexei Navalny’s organisation and his regional offices “extremist groups” underlining that this act marks the most serious effort to date by the Russian Government to suppress the independent political opposition and anti-corruption investigations.

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, represented by the Portuguese Presidency, signed the regulation establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI-Global Europe).

Report by President Charles Michel to the European Parliament plenary session on the European Council of 24-25 May 2021.

Press conference ahead of the G7 summit, Cornwall, UK, 11-13 June 2021