At the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 8 December 2025, EU ministers settled positions on speeding up returns, agreed a 2026 solidarity pool and approved a roadmap to connect the bloc's border IT systems. Here are the main outcomes.
At their December 2024 meeting in Brussels, EU home affairs ministers agreed to lift land border checks with Bulgaria and Romania and took stock of the EES, ETIAS and wider security priorities.
The EU set up an independent ethics body in May 2024 to introduce common ethical standards across its institutions. Here is what it does and why it matters for transparency and trust.
British travellers will not need an ETIAS "eurovisa" to visit the European Union until 2025 at the earliest, after the EU tied the permit to its delayed Entry/Exit System. With a likely soft launch, some Britons may not need an ETIAS for another two years.
On 5 September 2018 the Council of the EU adopted the regulation creating ETIAS, a pre-travel authorisation for visa-exempt visitors to the Schengen area. The text laid out how the system would work and when it should go live.