2024 in the European Union
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{{Update|date=March 2025}}
Events from 2024 in the European Union.
Incumbents
- {{flagicon|EU}} President of the European Council
- {{flagicon|BEL}} Charles Michel (to 30 November 2024)
- {{flagicon|POR}} António Costa (from 1 December 2024)
- {{flagicon|EU}} Commission President
- {{flagicon|GER}} Ursula von der Leyen
- {{flagicon|EU}} Council Presidency
- {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgium (Jan – Jun)
- {{flagicon|HUN}} Hungary (July – Dec)
- {{flagicon|EU}} Parliament President
- {{flagicon|MLT}} Roberta Metsola
- {{flagicon|EU}} High Representative
- {{flagicon|ESP}} Josep Borrell (to 30 November 2024)
- {{flagicon|EST}} Kaja Kallas (from 1 December 2024)
== Events ==
{{Main|2024 European farmers' protests}}
=== January ===
- 1 January – Belgium takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
= February =
- 1 February – The European Union formally approves a €50 billion financial support package for Ukraine after Hungary withdraws its veto. The package is expected to help the Ukrainian government pay pensions, salaries and other costs over the next four years with the first funds being released in March.{{Cite news |date=2024-02-01 |title=Ukraine support package worth €50bn agreed by EU leaders |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68165971 |access-date=2024-02-01 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
= May =
- 15 May – Attempted assassination of Robert Fico: Prime Minister Robert Fico is critically injured in a shooting in Handlova. A suspect is apprehended and identified as a 71-year-old writer from Levice.{{Cite web |title=Slovak PM Robert Fico in hospital after shooting |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg6761ggxz1o |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}
- 21 May – The Artificial Intelligence Act, a policy regulating providers of AI systems and entities using AI in a professional context to mitigate harms and risks of AI, is approved.{{cite news |last1=Browne |first1=Ryan |title=World's first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/21/worlds-first-major-law-for-artificial-intelligence-gets-final-eu-green-light.html |work=CNBC |date=21 May 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Artificial intelligence (AI) act: Council gives final green light to the first worldwide rules on AI |url=https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/05/21/artificial-intelligence-ai-act-council-gives-final-green-light-to-the-first-worldwide-rules-on-ai/ |publisher=Council of the EU |access-date=30 July 2024 |date=21 May 2024}}
- 23 May – The German Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expelled from the Identity and Democracy.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-23 |title=Far-right ID group expels Alternative for Germany |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-identity-and-democracy-group-expels-alternative-for-germany/ |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=POLITICO |language=en-GB}}
- 24 May – A watered-down version of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, a policy to safeguard basic human rights such as child labor and environmental harms across EU supply chains, is approved.{{cite web |title=Corporate sustainability due diligence: Council gives its final approval |url=https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/05/24/corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-council-gives-its-final-approval/ |publisher=Council of the EU |access-date=30 July 2024 |date=24 May 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Scott |first1=Mike |title=ESG Watch: New European human rights rules leave companies with 'big gap to close' |url=https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/esg-watch-new-european-human-rights-rules-leave-companies-with-big-gap-close-2024-07-11/ |access-date=30 July 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Niranjan |first1=Ajit |title=EU approves watered-down human rights and supply chain law |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/eu-approves-watered-down-human-rights-and-supply-chain-law |access-date=30 July 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=15 March 2024}}
= June =
- 6–9 June – 2024 European Parliament election
- 13 June – Hungary is fined 200 million euros, in addition to a daily one-million-euro fine by the European Court of Justice for "deliberately evading” compliance with European Union laws on migration and asylum seekers.{{Cite web |date=2024-06-13 |title=EU fines Hungary €200 million for flouting asylum laws |url=https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240613-eu-fines-hungary-%E2%82%AC200-million-for-flouting-asylum-laws |access-date=2024-06-13 |website=France 24 |language=en}}
- 18 June – Hungary's Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) leaves the European People's Party.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kdnp.hu/hirek/kdnp-tavozik-az-europai-neppartbol-es-ep-frakciojabol|title=A KDNP távozik az Európai Néppártból és EP-frakciójából|website=Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt - kdnp.hu}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.budapesttimes.hu/hungary/epp-group-votes-to-admit-hungarys-opposition-tisza-party-into-its-ranks-kdnp-to-leave-epp/|title=EPP group votes to admit Hungary's opposition Tisza Party into its ranks, KDNP to leave EPP|first=Attila|last=Leitner|date=June 18, 2024|website=The Budapest Times}}[https://civilek.info/en/2024/06/18/epp-and-kdnp-picked-up-hungarian-peters-from-the-european-nation/]{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/european-peoples-party-hungary-weapons-war-in-ukraine-aid-peter-magyar/|title=EPP's new Hungarian members oppose sending weapons to Ukraine|date=June 18, 2024|website=POLITICO}} The Party is a Ally of Hungary's Fidesz which also left the European People's Party in 2021.
- 21 June – The Czech ANO 2011 party decided to unilaterally withdraw from Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group as well as Renew Europe.{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/andrej-babis-quits-renew-group-eu-parliament-election-czech-republic/ |title=Former Czech PM Andrej Babiš quits liberal Renew group in EU Parliament |publisher=Politico |date=21 June 2024 |author1=Eddy Wax |author2=Ketrin Jochecová }}{{cite web |url=https://www.aldeparty.eu/statement_on_the_decision_of_ano_to_leave_the_alde_party |title= Statement on the decision of ANO to leave the ALDE Party |publisher=ALDE Party |date=21 June 2024 }}
- 25 June – Accession negotiations for full membership started with Moldova and Ukraine.{{cite web |url = https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/25/ukraine-and-moldova-enter-formal-membership-talks-with-the-european-union |title = Ukraine and Moldova enter formal membership talks with the European Union |language = en |date = June 25, 2024 |website=euronews.com}}
- 30 June – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (Fidesz), former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO 2011) and former Austrian Minister of the Interior Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) form a new European group called the Patriots for Europe.{{Cite web |title=Hungary: Orban announces new far-right European alliance – DW – 06/30/2024 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-orban-announces-new-far-right-european-alliance/a-69517687 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=dw.com |language=en}}
= July =
- 1 July – The start of the 2024 Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- 10 July – the German Alternative for Germany (AfD) forms a new European group called Europe of Sovereign Nations. It will have Hungary's Our Homeland Movement, Bulgaria's Revival, Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy, Slovak Republic Movement.
= September =
- 16 September – The Estonian Centre Party leaves the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, citing a policy divergence on issues of European integration between the Centre Party and ALDE.{{cite web | url=https://news.postimees.ee/8097120/center-party-leaving-alde-group-in-european-parliament | title=Center Party leaving ALDE group in European Parliament | date=16 September 2024 }}
See also
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