Information on how the EU budget works: where the money comes from and how it is spent, a breakdown of spending and revenue by programme and by country, and the EU's focus on performance-based budgeting. Links to publications, documents, and news related to the EU budget.

Here you will find a central meeting point for startups in Europe to access all the information they need to grow and thrive in Europe. / Startup Europe is an initiative of the European Commission, which falls under its priority of the ‘Digital Single Market’.

This Johnson surrogate keeps referring to a recent EU Commission paper which he says resolved the Irish border issues. Surprise! This claim is false.

Government now rejecting EU oversight of implementing Northern Ireland agreement.

The system for checks on agri-foods at Northern Ireland's sea ports is "not fit for purpose", according to an audit carried out by the European Commission.

Instead of protecting the natural world, the proposed Office for Environmental Protection ‘could undermine the rule of law’, and lead to worse damage than under EU, lawyers say

The EU has accused UK leadership hopeful Boris Johnson of fake news over his complaint that "Brussels bureaucrats" made life hard for smoked herring sellers. It emerged that the rules were made by the UK, and not the EU.

This Communication explains the measures that the Commission adopted today, 19 December 2018, in response to that call, together with other crucial steps in the implementation of its Contingency Action Plan.

This troll has published a thread attacking @Femi_Sorry for his video on EU democracy. I don’t like feeding trolls, but this one is getting attention for the wrong reason and his thread deserves detailed rebuttal. It’s a staggering tissue of lies and half-truths.

This video gives a short yet comprehensive explanation of the regular yet complicated way new EU law is made (the Ordinary Legislative Procedure). It sheds a simplified light on the process as a whole, the main actors and some of the possible complications.

ONLY ABOUT ONE in eight Irish people trust the British government, according to polling carried out by Ireland Thinks on behalf of The Journal.

The UK government has stepped up its planning for leaving the EU without a deal, covering areas such as transport, healthcare, energy, food and water. But what is the EU doing to prepare for this scenario?

What is the European Commission? It is the executive body of the European Union and is led by 28 people or Commissioners, one from each member state. ...

The government does not understand how the EU works and so embarks on negotiating strategies that are doomed to fail, Britain’s former ambassador to Brussels has said.

A recurrent claim of the Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum was that it would be easy for the United Kingdom, once it had decided to leave the EU, to agree with the larger countries of the Union, notably Germany and France ... But the misconception was illuminating for its misjudgement of the European Union and the solidarity between its members.

EU confidence that the UK would come out far worse is bad news for Tory leadership candidates planning brinkmanship. / EU officials are working on the basis that the UK’s economy will be hit up to 10 times as hard by a no-deal Brexit than the UK, the latest analysis by the European Commission shows.

A European Commission evaluation report published last week concluded that the Council Directive 1999/22/EC (known as the “Zoo Directive”) fits for purpose and plays a crucial role with regard to conservation of biodiversity.

The European Commission has taken Hungary to court over a controversial new law that makes it illegal to give assistance to asylum seekers.

This technical note was transmitted to theEuropean Parliament and Council on 30 April 2020. Published on the UKTF website on Thursday 30 April 2020

Brussels says offer is 'strictly time-limited'

European Commission’s next seven-year science-funding scheme — its biggest ever — will allow any country to participate for a price.

British voters were not fully informed on the implications of Brexit during the referendum in 2016, a European Parliament report has concluded.