Travelling home after the holidays? 🎄 As an EU passenger, your rights include 🪪 Travel with your passport or just with your ID card in any EU or Schengen Area country. ✈️ Reimbursement, re-routing, or a refund in case of flight cancellation. 🚢 Compensation for a train or ship delay of at least one hour. 🛄 Compensation for lost luggage. Hoping you have wonderful and safe travels ✈️🚗🛥️🚌🚆 Learn about your rights:

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Passenger rights - Your Europe

Passengers

❄️🚗 Holiday over, bags packed, and heading back home? Let’s make sure your journey is safe! We're working towards Vision Zero, our goal to halve serious road injuries by 2030 and get close to none by 2050. This means concrete 🇪🇺 actions are making roads safer, including updated requirements for driving licences, better cross-border enforcement of road traffic rules, and proposals to improve vehicle roadworthiness. Step by step, Europe is getting closer to safer roads for all.

New Year, new EU goals 🌍 Our top priorities for 2026: 🛡️ Stronger European defence 🌿 Updated national climate targets and EU carbon market, plus measures to phase out fossil fuels and drive clean technology 🏗️ More energy-efficient renovations and better energy security 💼 A Quality Jobs Act and an education package with European school alliances and a digital education roadmap. Europe’s future looks brighter than ever. Find out more about our 2026 work programme:

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Commission work programme 2026

On 21 October 2026, the European Commission adopted the 2026 Commission work programme and its annexes

Today, Bulgaria adopts the euro as its official currency. 💶 A new currency, a stronger bond with Europe. Travel, work, and business will become easier and more connected. With Schengen now fully in place, this means more freedom, more opportunities, and a shared future. Progress is not a dream. It is a choice. And Bulgaria has chosen it. Let's keep moving forward together. 🇪🇺🇧🇬

Spain and Portugal: 40 years in the EU! On 1 January 1986, Spain and Portugal joined the European Union. A leap into a new modern era – from limitations to new freedoms and new opportunities. Massive EU investments, access to the Single Market, boosting jobs, innovation, modern infrastructures and a stronger democracy. Four decades later, Spain and Portugal are a crucial part of Europe’s story and it’s future. 40 years of progress. Together!

We look towards 2026 with great ambition to make EU citizen proud to be part of our Union. Here’s to many more: 🌍 Trade partnerships 🌱 Sustainable initiatives 🔬 Research driving innovation Happy New Year! ✨

Removing trade barriers with stronger ties and broader markets. This year, we deepened ties with 🇲🇽 🇮🇩 🇺🇿 🇨🇱, and advanced talks with 🇮🇳 🇲🇾 🇵🇭 🇹🇭, expanding horizons with the Gulf Cooperation Council 🇦🇪 🇸🇦 🇴🇲 🇧🇭 🇶🇦 🇰🇼. Even in unpredictable times, trade keeps Europe moving. More 👉

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Trade

Learn how the EU trade policy protects us from unfair trade and keeps Europe competitive amid global economic and geopolitical challenges.

👋 Γεια σου, Κύπρος! Cyprus is the next country to take over the Presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 January. Did you know Cyprus is.... 🧀The birthplace of Halloumi 🐈 Home to more cats than people 🪙 The country that gave copper its name, thanks to its ancient rich deposits 🇪🇺🤝🇨🇾 Join us in welcoming the Cypriot Presidency!

No surprise visits from the ‘No Internet’ T-Rex this Christmas 🎄🦖 While you enjoy the festive fun, we’re keeping you connected 🎁 With EU roaming rules, you can use your mobile data across our border-free Union just as you do at home, at no extra cost! And, with the WiFi4EU app, you can also enjoy free, high-speed WiFi in public spaces across Europe. Stay close to what matters as you enjoy a well-deserved year-end break ✨

Complacency is over. Security is our shared responsibility. Here’s what we achieved in 2025: ✅ Cut red tape to rebuild European defence capabilities ✅ Readiness Roadmap 2030 to close gaps and boost EU industry ✅ €150 billion to support national defence investment ✅ Identified flagship projects for drones, air defence, and space security ✅ Cut regulatory barriers for rapid troop movement ✅ Innovation boost in AI, Quantum, drones, and space Readiness 2030 starts now 👉

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Defence

Find out how the EU is prioritising building a true European defence union by strengthening the competitiveness and innovation of the European defe...