The EU’s new housing commissioner says the European Commission will try to tackle Europe’s housing crisis by easing state aid restrictions so countries can spend state funds on social housing, Euronews reports.

The European Commission has launched an investigation under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation to determine if a Portuguese subsidiary of Chinese state-owned rolling stock manufacturer CRRC had an unfair advantage when…

Four big European mobile crane manufacturers have lodged a complaint with the European Commission concerning the influx of mobile cranes from China into the EU, demanding an urgent investigation. Liebherr,…

The European Commission has unveiled an ambitious plan to transform rail travel across the European Union, promising to halve journey times on major routes and establish high-speed rail as the…

The EU’s European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Costa Rica $250m for the country’s first electric railway, a 51km commuter line connecting the capital San José to the district of…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) this week released the first tranche of funding – €875m – to start work on Portugal’s first high-speed railway between Porto and Lisbon. The loan…

The European Commission has approved an investment of €202m for a particle accelerator in the Grenada region of southern Spain, around a quarter of the expected total construction cost. The…

UK equipment maker JCB has secured the European Union’s approval to sell its hydrogen engines in primary or third-party non-road mobile machinery across the EU and in other markets that…

UK machinery maker JCB has welcomed this month’s UK-India Free Trade Agreement after the formal conclusion of talks between the two countries on 6 May. The deal still needs to…

Kyrgyzstan has started building its third international airport in Jalal-Abad, its third biggest city. As reported by The Times of Central Asia, the 380ha airport will have a two-storey, 10,000-sq-m…

The European Commission, the main executive body of the EU, has imposed extra “anti-subsidy” duties on Chinese mobile access equipment such as forklifts, scissor lifts and boom lifts. Ranging from…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide €2bn for recovery and reconstruction projects in Ukraine, including energy, transport, housing, water and heating. The work is intended to sustain essential…

Montenegro is to cancel the pre-qualification tender for a 22km motorway project following a request from the EU and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which are financing…

Poland’s largest utility has arranged funding for its Baltica 2 offshore wind farm. Together with Baltica 3, it will be able to generate as much as 1.5GW, making them the…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the government of Lithuania have approved a €100m loan to fund housing renovation in the country. The initiative aims to unlock €625m in total…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a €100m tranche of funding for the Laakso hospital complex in Helsinki, bringing the total amount loaned to €480m. The scope of work…

The EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has signed two agreements worth €1.4bn in an effort to speed up completion of the Rail Baltica project. Of this amount, €1.2bn will be…

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have asked the EU to help them pay for new fortifications along their borders with Russia and its ally, Belarus. The defence ministers of the…