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On 23 February 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. With this proposal, the Commission aims to foster sustainable and responsible corporate behaviour throughout global value chains.

A report by the Commission's Joint Research Centre assessed the current state of utilisation of data innovation in the scientific literature identified areas in which data innovation has the most concrete potential for policy-making. The report focused on the areas of demography, mobility, and migration.

The Commission proposed a declaration with a set of principles that will serve as guidance for a sustainable, human-centric, and value-based digital transformation in the European Union.

On 20 January 2022, the European Parliament adopted its position regarding the proposal for a regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services. The EP amended several dispositions of the Commission proposal.

A report found by the European Court of Auditors found that, while EU action has contributed to reforms in technical and operational areas (e.g. improving the efficiency of the judiciary), it has had little overall impact on fundamental rule-of-law reforms in the Western Balkans.

On 14 December 2021, the Commission proposed updated rules to reinforce the governance of the Schengen area. The Commission stressed that the Schengen area is one of the biggest achievements of European integration. It has been repeatedly put to the test in recent years by …

On 15 December 2021, the Commission adopted a proposal for a new EU directive to crack down on environmental crime. In this way, the Commission intends to fulfil a key commitment of the European Green Deal.The proposal aims to make protection of the …

On 9 December 2021, the European Commission published an initiative to extend the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime. The initiative follows a set of EU actions already in place to counter illegal hate speech and violent extremist ideologies and terrorism …

On 10 December 2021, the European Commission released its 2021 report on application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU. A special focus was on the challenges of protecting fundamental rights in the digital age. The 2021 report follows last year’s strategy to …

On 23 November 2021, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) published a report on the European Commission’s estimate of error in EU cohesion policy. The ECA pointed out that the related error rates, as disclosed by the Commission, are likely to underestimate the real level …