Topical Digests

Economic and Social Policies

The EU’s digital challenges, October 2023

Economic, social, budgetary, and environmental policies, February 2021

OECD Forum 2017: Bridging Divides, May 2017

Tax Transparency, April 2016

‘Clean energy for all Europeans’ legislative package, May 2018

Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, February 2018

Clean Energy Financing, October 2017

Sustainable Energy, June 2016

World Oceans Day 2022, June 2021

Our climate, our future!, March 2021

Economic, social, budgetary, and environmental policies, February 2021

ECPRD seminar 2019 – Oceans, October 2019

Circular Economy, April 2018

Implementing the Paris Agreement – EU and global climate action, November 2017

Copyright reform, May 2017

Tax Transparency, April 2016

World Health Summit, October 2016

Digital Health, June 2016

Conference on the Future of Europe: ‘Digital’ topic, January 2022

Research and transport policy, April 2019

High-level conference: EU research and innovation in our daily life, November 2018

High-level conference: Shaping our digital future, April 2018

Digital Health, June 2016

Economic, social, budgetary, and environmental policies, February 2021

EU policy for persons with disabilities, November 2023

Social Summit – Gothenburg 2017, November 2017

Institutional and Legal Affairs

EU Internal Security, January 2024

Migratory challenge, January 2024

EESC Civil Society Days 2023, January 2023

Children’s rights, November 2023

Fundamental rights and non-discrimination, May 2022

Article 17 TFEU: Dialogue with churches, religious associations, and philosophical and non-confessional organisations, November 2022

High-level Conference on Migration and Asylum in Europe, June 2021

The evaluation of Eurojust activities, November 2020

Migrants and refugees: The external dimension, November 2020

United Kingdom Withdrawal from the EU (Brexit), February 2020

30 Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, November 2019

The EU and law enforcement action, September 2019

The EU and Counter-Terrorism, September 2017

Truth, the media and the public sphere, May 2017

Digest on Equality and diversity in the EU, April 2017

Migration, Human Rights and Security Nexus, October 2016

EU Border Package, June 2016

European elections, January 2024

Policy coherence for (sustainable) development, November 2023

International Youth Day 2023, July 2023

SDGs: The EU and the Sustainable Development Goals, February 2023

Citizens expectations emerging from the Conference on the Future of Europe, May 2022

Lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, March 2022

Your Europe, Your Say! 2022, January 2023

European Parliament, January 2022

Future of Europe – EPRS Ideas Papers, May 2021

Conference on the Future of Europe, 2021

Better law making from a digital perspective, October 2020

Together for the future of Europe, September 2020

Future of Europe, July 2020

Conference on the Future of Europe, March 2020

Towards cyber-secure European Parliament elections, April 2019

Future of Europe, July 2018

Public Opinion and EU Policies, October 2016

The first Annual Rule of Law Report by the Commission and the role of national Parliaments, November 2020

Rule of Law, October 2023

Gender equality across policy areas, March 2024

Gender-based violence, November 2023

Gender equality, October 2022

Gender Equality, October 2021

We are strong: women leading the fight against Covid-19, March 2021

Minority SafePack – one million signatures for diversity in Europe, October 2020

Gender equality: a review of progress, October 2020

Women in politics, March 2019

Structural and Cohesion Policies

Future of food and farming, April 2018

EU Rural development policy, September 2016

Multilingualism Day 2023, September 2023

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 2023

International Day of Education, January 2022

Multilingualism in the EU: Rising to the challenge, October 2018

Cultural heritage: What Europe does for me, June 2018

Cultural heritage in Europe: linking past and future, June 2018

Culture, heritage and education (EN | FR | DE), March 2018

European Cinema, February 2017

Erasmus+, Creative Europe, Europe for Citizens, September 2016

European Week of Sport 2021, March 2021

Education – for everyone?, November 2019

EuropCom conference, November 2019

European week of sport, September 2019

EU sport policy & issues, September 2017

Lifelong learning: flexible pathways and skills acquisition, October 2016

Women in fisheries, September 2021

Sustainable management of external fishing fleets, February 2019

European Week of Regions and Cities – 2023, September 2023

Cohesion policy and European Green Deal, May 2021

Covenant of mayors 2020, February 2020

Macro-regional strategies, October 2016

World Tourism Day 2021, April 2021

Relaunching tourism amid coronavirus, April 2021

High-level conference on tourism, September 2017

European Mobility Week 2021, September 2021

Research and transport policy, April 2019

Railway policies in the EU, December 2016

Aviation policy, October 2016

International Relations

European Development Days 2018, June 2018

Humanitarian Summit, May 2016

Russia’s war on Ukraine: Background, February 2024

EU-China relations, January 2024

EU-India relations, January 2024

EU restrictive measures, November 2023

EU-Canada relations, November 2023

United States, October 2023

Latin America and the Caribbean, July 2023

Latin America, June 2023

EU Transatlantic Relations, June 2023

The EU and sub-Saharan Africa, March 2023

Russia’s war on Ukraine: The EU’s humanitarian response, February 2023

Multilateralism, January 2023

India, January 2023

EU-Africa, November 2022

ASEAN AND THE INDO-PACIFIC, February 2022

Relations with Turkey, February 2022

Relations with the United Kingdom, February 2022

Africa, January 2022

EU in the world, January 2022

EU Integration of the Western Balkans, July 2021

EU and the United Nations, June 2021

Migrants and refugees: The external dimension, November 2020

United Kingdom Withdrawal from the EU (Brexit), February 2020

Western Balkans in the spotlight, May 2018

High-level conference: Towards a renewed partnership with Africa (EN | FR), November 2017

The EU and the enlargement countries, June 2017

Truth, the media and the public sphere, May 2017

The Syrian crisis and its regional impact, April 2017

Truth, the media and the public sphere, February 2017

Japan, January 2017

EU-Russia relations, October 2016

BRICS Summit 2016, October 2016

World Health Summit, October 2016

Global Strategy for the European Union, July 2016

Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa, June 2016

Latin America, February 2022

Ilham Tohti, 2019 Sakharov Prize Lauteate, December 2019

Oleg Sentsov, 2018 Sakharov Prize Laureate, November 2019

High-level conference: 70th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, November 2018

Migration, Human Rights and Security Nexus, October 2016

International Trade, June 2022

Latin America, February 2022

Trade and Investment Agreements, July 2021

CETA: Agreement with Canada, February 2017

China, the WTO and global trade, December 2016

BRICS Summit 2016, October 2016

China’s MES debate, May 2016

EU Internal Security, January 2024

Security and Defence, February 2022

EU in the World, June 2021

Security and Defence in the spotlight, April 2019

Migration, Human Rights and Security Nexus, October 2016

Global Strategy for the European Union, July 2016

NATO Summit 2016, July 2016

The EU and Counter-Terrorism, September 2017

Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa, June 2016

EU Financing / Budgetary Affairs

EU long-term budget: Does the EU have enough resources to finance its priorities?, September 2023

2021-2027 MFF and NGEU, April 2021

Economic, social, budgetary, and environmental policies, February 2021

2021-2027 MFF, January 2020

How the EU Budget is spent, April 2019

Policy Cycle

Special Committees (2020)

Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA), September 2020

Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation (INGE), March 2022

Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport (ANIT), September 2020

Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA), September 2020

Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC), September 2020