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Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

The European FMCG and grocery retail sector enters 2026 confronted with one of the most consequential regulatory realignments of the past decade. Legislative initiatives advancing simultaneously across packaging, sustainability, food safety, health policy and controlled categories are no longer incremental adjustments; they amount to a fundamental transformation of how products are designed, sourced, marketed and […]

The 28th Regime and the Rise of EU Inc

If there was a successful founder in Berlin who has built a breakthrough AI diagnostic tool and now wants to expand to neighbouring countries such as France or Austria, it would be rather difficult to do so. In other major economies, such as the United States or China, this would involve a few clicks and […]

Audiovisual Industry and Intellectual Property

The definition of ownership is shifting from physical to algorithmic in the modern age, both in Europe and globally. The legal focus is slowly shifting from simply protecting an idea to demonstrating how that idea was developed. The industry is navigating a landmark collision between traditional copyright and generative AI, alongside a broader redefinition of […]

Biotech and Pharma: Building the European Health Union

The European pharmaceutical and biotechnology field this year is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in several decades. For years, the EU has been encountered with an innovation-access paradox. In other words, the Old Continent was home to first class research, but it was falling behind in market speed and equal patient access. As […]

Energy and Critical Raw Materials

For decades, Europe’s energy policy was a green energy-oriented mission focused on carbon reduction. Right now, that mission has evolved into a model of industrial realism for the purposes of European survival. The biggest strategic change is the shift from being clean to prioritising autonomy and independence from foreign actors. Brussels has stopped treating energy […]

Defence Industry Landscape: A New Beginning

Until 2025, the European defence sector operated as a collection of 27 separate national boutiques that produced high-end equipment in small batches for domestic use. The production has been highly specialised, relatively costly, and smaller in quantity. That era ended with “Europe’s independence moment”, as presented in the Commission’s 2026 Work Programme. Today, the European […]

Latvian Government Collapses Amid the Drone Incidents

The resignation of Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa on 14 May represents a collapse of the ruling coalition which was caused by a national security error and loss of internal political trust. The crisis arose from the incident that occurred on 7 May, when multiple unmanned aerial vehicles entered Latvian airspace from Russia. One drone […]

Putting the Cure in Procurement: The Critical Medicines Act

While some see the agreement on the text of the Critical Medicines Act as a victory for patient safety, a deeper analysis shows a complex industrial change that attempts to balance between relatively high costs of European manufacturing and the uncertain security of global supply chains. The political agreement reached in the early hours of […]

B&K Agency brought the “Empty Beds” exhibition to the European Commission for the High-Level Meeting of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children

Brussels, Belgium, 11 May 2026 — B&K Agency brought the “Empty Beds” exhibition to the European Commission in Brussels as a part of the High-Level Meeting of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children hosted by EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos. B&K Agency worked with the Bird of Light Foundation to place […]