Today, the European Commission adopted a proposal to upgrade the 'ECRIS' tool to improve further the rules on the exchange of criminal records of non-EU citizens in the EU.

Today, the European Commission is participating in the International Human Rights Conference, which is taking place in Madrid as part of World Pride 2017. Irena Moozova, Director for Equality and Union Citizenship, will represent the European Commission at the conference. This is a sign of the Commission's constant commitment to combatting the discrimination of LGBTI people in the EU.

Today, new EU rules to fight money laundering and terrorist financing start to apply across Europe. They substantially strengthen the existing rules.

The European Commission is organising a stakeholder conference on corporate governance in Brussels on Monday 26 June 2017, 10:00-17:00.

The European Commission is assessing how the Commission Recommendation of 11 June 2013 on common principles for injunctive and compensatory collective redress mechanisms in the Member States concerning violations of rights granted under Union Law is being implemented in practice.

On 30 March 2017, the European Commission published the call for proposals for action grants under the 2017 annual work programme of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme.

On 30 March 2017, the European Commission published the following calls for proposals for action grants under the 2017 annual work programme of the Justice Programme.