The European Commission, headquartered in Belgium, was founded in 1958 and employs approximately 34,050 individuals. Functioning as a body independent of national governments, the Commission represents and upholds the interests of the European Union as a whole. Its primary activities revolve around government administration, including preparing legislation for adoption by the Council (representing member countries) and the Parliament (representing citizens). Additionally, it administers the budget and various policy programmes, such as agriculture, fisheries, and research, in cooperation with authorities in the member countries.
On September 11, the European Commission presented its proposals to the Council for signature, seeking authorization to finalize the India-EU Free Trade Agreement. Earlier that day, during the International Space Summit in Paris, France and the EU secured support for the European satellite communications constellation Iris², which the Commission created in 2022 and has faced numerous challenges. The Commission also proposed reforms to public procurement law, aiming to make it easier to exclude non-EU companies from tenders, specifically citing Chinese firms as an example. Separately on September 11, the European Commission published its first Guidelines on the application of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to exclusionary abuses of dominance, following their adoption on September 3, 2026. The European Aluminium industry also expressed frustration on September 11 regarding delays in new scrap export measures, noting the Commission substituted earlier proposed export duties with a ban on sales to non-OECD markets, now anticipated no earlier than 2027.
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