{"id":948017,"date":"2026-05-09T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948017\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:36:22","slug":"happy-europe-day-2026-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948017\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Europe Day 2026! &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Every year, on 9 May, we celebrate Europe Day, commemorating the signing of the &#8216;<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/european-union.europa.eu\/principles-countries-history\/history-eu\/1945-59\/schuman-declaration-may-1950_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schuman Declaration<\/a>&#8216; on 9 May 1950. \u00a0The declaration was an ambitious plan to secure long-term peace in post-war Europe and is considered the beginning of what is now the EU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">If you are in Luxembourg, we invite you to join the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/luxembourg.representation.ec.europa.eu\/actualites-et-evenements\/evenements-0\/journee-de-leurope-2026-2026-05-10_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe Day event<\/a> tomorrow, 10 May, in the Wiltz Castle. You can visit Eurostat\u2019s information stand between 11:00 and 18:00 (CEST).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">We will also take part in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/get-involved\/visit-european-commission\/europe-day-2025_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brussels event<\/a> today, on 9 May, from 10:00 to 18:00 (CEST) in the Berlaymont building, the seat of the European Commission. To mark the occasion, many EU institutions &#8211; namely the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission &#8211; will open their doors to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">For an overview of all Europe Day events happening across the EU, please visit the Europe Day webpage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/eu-day-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EU in numbers. Infographic.\" data-fileentryid=\"23631919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/eu-day-2026.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year, on 9 May, we celebrate Europe Day, commemorating the signing of the &#8216;Schuman Declaration&#8216; on 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,114377,115371],"class_list":{"0":"post-948017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-event-driven-news","13":"tag-general-and-regional-statistics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116543946940335216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}