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The Council has approved conclusions on the EU electricity grid infrastructure.

Footballers, football clubs, tennis tournaments, and Paralympians have joined in with the EU’s #UseYourVote campaign ahead of the European Parliament elections on 6-9 June. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

Spearheading the European Union’s judicial response to the war in Ukraine, and digitalising criminal justice, were at the heart of Eurojust’s work in 2023, and will continue to be so, says the Agency’s Annual Report, published today.

In an unprecedented operation against aggressive and dangerous computer malware, authorities in the European Union and beyond have taken actions against droppers including IcedID, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee and Trickbot, which infiltrated computers via emails. The measures focused on disrupting criminal services through arresting suspects, the freezing of illegal proceeds, and taking down botnets, coordinated by Eurojust. The operation, which was carried out this week with support of Europol, is a follow up to the successful takedown of the Emotet malware system in 2021.

Today, the Council formally signed off on the withdrawal of the EU and Euratom from the Energy Charter Treaty, while allowing for its modernisation.

The Council has adopted a regulation amending the rules governing medical devices and in-vitro diagnostic medical devices, with a view to preventing shortages.

The Council today adopted a regulation increasing the tariff measures for cereals, oilseeds and derived products as well as beet-pulp pellets and dried peas from the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus.   

European Commission Speech Athens, 30 May 2024 A very good morning. It's wonderful to be with you and see a very full room on a very important topic, about transformation. Because at the European level we al...

Council gives its final approval to the directive on promoting the right-to-repair.