On 5 March, the European Commission launched its Gender Equality Strategy for 2026-2030. The Strategy was presented by European Commission’s Executive Vice- President Roxana Mînzatu and Commissioner for Eequality Hadja Lahbib. Building on the previous Gender Equality Strategy for 2020-2025 and the 2025 EU Roadmap for Women’s Rights, this strategy sets out 30 concrete measures […]

The European Olympic Committees (EOC) EU Office has appointed Carlotta Giussani (ITA) as its new Director. She succeeds Folker Hellmund (GER), who has led the EOC EU Office in Brussels for 17 years and will conclude his mandate at the end of March 2026.  Since taking office in 2009, when EU sport policy was still […]

On 13 February, the European Parliament published two documents on EU funding for education, youth and sport: a study, requested by the Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), mapping funding instruments across its policy areas, and a briefing reviewing the Commission’s Erasmus+ proposal for the 2028-2034 EU budget.  These documents outline the main changes […]