European Council

Following a review under the recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, the Council updated the list of countries, special administrative regions and other entities and territorial authorities for which travel restrictions should be lifted.

EU ambassadors today agreed a negotiating mandate on a draft regulation amending the Europol regulation.

President Charles Michel spoke at the opening of the Generation Equality Forum in Paris on Wednesday 30 June 2021

The EU is ensuring that member states can continue to employ holders of third-country certificates in the inland waterway sector.

The regulation establishing the EU asylum agency aims to improve the application of asylum policy within the EU, by turning the current European asylum support office (EASO) into a fully-fledged agency.

Farming ministers reaffirm need for a new approach to protecting honey bees.

Today EU ambassadors confirmed a provisional agreement reached between the Council presidency and the Parliament on a new directive harmonising rules for credit servicers and credit purchasers of non-performing loans issued by credit institutions.

The Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators have reached a provisional agreement on an amendment to the motor insurance directive.

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

President Michel and President Putin took stock of EU-Russia relations during their phone call on Monday 7 June 2021.

Weekly schedule of President Charles Michel 7 - 13 June 2021

The Council approved two sets of conclusions on the impact of the pandemic, one on internal security and a second on the threat posed by terrorism and violent extremism.

Recent terrorist attacks carried out across the EU have underlined the need to improve the protection of public spaces.