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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Council will set EU military aid priorities for Ukraine (air defence, industrial cooperation) and coordinate response to Russian…
A judgment on Iran Shipping Lines' challenge to its EU sanctions listing will test whether the Council's designation of the…
A ruling upholding or annulling the Council's restrictive measures against Yanukovych will test the durability of EU sanctions…
GDP reporting is a macro signal for demand, fiscal space, industrial pressure and central-bank reaction functions.
The official PMI is the first monthly read on Chinese factory activity, and China is both the demand side for European machinery,…
Federal funding for fiscal year 2027 must be enacted by 30 September or the government faces a shutdown.
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…
The Council held a policy debate on the next MFF 2028-2034, started preparations for the October European Council and held an exchange of views on…
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.
Die Linke won the Berlin state election on 20 September 2026 with 25.7% and 47 of 158 seats.
Ministers held a broad discussion on the latest economic developments in the euro area.
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…