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Read a selection of the featured news from across the EU's institutions and bodies.

  • Press release

Pink October is breast cancer awareness month. This year we had a chat with the Executive Director of the largest European breast cancer patient advocacy organisation. Find out what she said and learn more about what the EU is doing to support breast cancer prevention and care.

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  • News announcement

Yoana Kaloyanova (Bulgaria), Žan Tone Urbanija (Slovenia), and Marie Hartmann (Germany) have won the 2026 Megalizzi–Niedzielski prize for aspiring journalists. The prize honours the legacy of Antonio Megalizzi and Bartek Orent-Niedzielski, both killed in the 2018 terror attacks in Strasbourg.

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  • Press release

Six outstanding EU-funded projects, and the people behind them, have won prizes at the EU’s 2026 REGIOSTARS Awards. The awards recognise excellence in projects investing in regions, cities and communities. Winners included a battery recycling project in Germany and an AI holopresence in Slovakia.

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