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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Crown Holdings and Crown Cork & Seal Deutschland Holdings are appealing a General Court judgment that dismissed their challenge…
Appeal judgment on Commission merger/competition decision affecting major packaging supplier; outcome will clarify scope of…
Euro-area unemployment gauges labour-market slack — an input to the ECB’s reaction function, to fiscal pressure and to the…
Euro-area HICP inflation is the ECB’s target variable — the release most directly shaping rate expectations, real incomes and the…
Nonfarm payrolls set the market’s read on US labour-market heat — repricing Fed cuts, the dollar and euro-area yields within…
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.
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…
German trade figures are an early stress signal for European industrial demand, China exposure, U.S. tariff effects and…
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…
Czechia is a mid-sized manufacturing economy and a swing voice between hawkish eastern-flank security politics and more…
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,…