Commission’s 2025 General Report highlights EU actions for citizens and businesses in a year marked by profound changes
The 2025 edition of the General Report on the activities of the EU presents the EU’s key achievements in 2025, delivering to citizens while addressing new challenges in a more volatile and fragmented world. The EU remained steadfast in providing political, financial, humanitarian and military support to Ukraine and its people, while imposing sanctions to limit Russia’s ability to finance its war.
The report highlights how the EU stepped up action to strengthen the competitiveness of its economy, through both the Single Market and the Competitiveness Compass, a strategic roadmap to drive economic growth while ensuring a fair and environmentally sustainable transition. 2025 also marked an important step forward in reducing unnecessary burdens on businesses, and the EU invested in the technologies that will shape the future, from artificial intelligence to clean energy. On the global stage, the EU remained the world’s leading provider of humanitarian aid and continued to invest in reducing dependencies and strengthening global partnerships. In parallel, it stepped up efforts to boost its security, defence and preparedness with the Readiness 2030 package, the most significant increase in defence investment in EU history.
Through the Choose Europe initiative, the EU made headway in its efforts to position Europe as the best place in the world for science and research.