A sourced calendar of scheduled geopolitical and geo-economic events that matter for Europe: monetary policy, trade actions, EU institutions, macro releases and tech reporting dates.
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Headline HICP (y/y): 3.8%. Euro area annual inflation (flash estimate): 3.8% in September 2026, up from 3.2% in August.
Nonfarm payrolls: +29,000 jobs. Nonfarm payrolls rose 29,000 in September, below the average monthly gain of 45,000 over the past year.
Latvia is small in population but central to the EU’s eastern-flank politics.
OPEC+ output decisions set the oil-price backdrop for EU inflation, energy security and the terms-of-trade shock channel the ECB…
Brazil shapes Mercosur, climate diplomacy, critical minerals, food security and EU-Latin America trade politics.
EU-Moldova Association Council will signal whether the EU is willing to deepen security, energy and trade commitments to Moldova…
The release is a prompt to inspect critical-tech import and export flows for early signs of dependency, diversion, oversupply or…
Evaluation of whether the EU's autonomous tariff suspension and quota scheme remains fit-for-purpose will inform future trade…
Eurogroup will frame how euro-area fiscal rules, banking union and capital markets union interact with Ukraine financing and…
German trade figures are an early stress signal for European industrial demand, China exposure, U.S. tariff effects and…
ECOFIN will settle or expose ministerial positions on fiscal-rule flexibility, banking union deepening and capital markets union…
Czechia is a mid-sized manufacturing economy and a swing voice between hawkish eastern-flank security politics and more…
Unemployment rate (SA): 6.4%. Euro area unemployment rate: 6.4% in August 2026, stable versus July.
Real GDP (SAAR): +2.2%. The headline figure is 2.2%, up 0.7 points from 1.5% in the previous release.
The Council approved an implementing decision establishing the first five European Defence Projects of Common Interest under the European Defence Industry…
The AfD came first in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election on 20 September 2026 with 38.2% and 32 of 71 seats, up from 16.7% in 2021.
Foreign Affairs Council under Kallas will either consolidate or expose EU unity on sanctions, Ukraine military aid and…
This Council adopts the EU’s negotiating mandate for COP31 and carries the Irish presidency’s ETS-revision and 2040-target…
The autumn IMF/World Bank meetings set the global backdrop for EU fiscal and financial policy — growth and debt outlooks, IMF…
Large U.S. tech reporting is now a geopolitical signal: AI capex, data-center energy demand, cloud concentration, China exposure,…
Large U.S. tech reporting is now a geopolitical signal: AI capex, data-center energy demand, cloud concentration, China exposure,…