Agenda – The Week Ahead 01 – 07 June 2026

Committee meetings, Brussels Source : © European Union, 2026 – EP   Author: European Parliament – News (Source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agenda/weekly-agenda/2026-23)

Quo Vadis, Imperium? EU technological sovereignty as the sine qua non for democratic survival against the techno-authoritarian drift

Helder Matos (master’s student in Human Rights at the School of Law of the University of Minho) Introduction In March 2024, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) revealed that the European Commission, the institution...

Policy and practice watch:

Questions FARMWISE shares with the EU CAP Network Every so often a newsletter lands in the inbox that feels less like external news and more like a mirror held up to your own work....

Press release – Tackling youth unemployment: MEPs conclude fact-finding visit to La Réunion

A delegation from the Employment and Social Affairs Committee was in La Réunion to assess youth employment initiatives and to meet government representatives.Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Source : © European Union, 2026...

From nitrate hotspots to hard choices: FARMWISE at EGU 2026

Some scientific problems are easier to find than to fix. Nitrate pollution in groundwater is one of them: diffuse, stubborn, and deeply bound up with the way food is grown across Europe. It can...

Drawing Down the Well

For three days in May, Hamburg played host to a question with no easy answer: how can Europe’s farmers keep working the land as the water they depend on grows scarcer and less predictable?...