2024 in the European Union

Events from 2024 in the European Union.

Incumbents

 * 🇪🇺 President of the European Council
 * 🇧🇪 Charles Michel
 * 🇪🇺 Commission President
 * 🇩🇪 Ursula von der Leyen
 * 🇪🇺 Council Presidency
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium (Jan – Jun)
 * 🇭🇺 Hungary (July – Dec)
 * 🇪🇺 Parliament President
 * 🇲🇹 Roberta Metsola
 * 🇪🇺 High Representative
 * 🇪🇸 Josep Borrell

January

 * 1 January – Belgium takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

February

 * 1 February – The European Union formally approves a €50 billion financial support package for Ukraine after Hungary withdraws its veto. The package is expected to help the Ukrainian government pay pensions, salaries and other costs over the next four years with the first funds being released in March.

May

 * 15 May – Attempted assassination of Robert Fico: Prime Minister Robert Fico is critically injured in a shooting in Handlova. A suspect is apprehended and identified as a 71-year-old writer from Levice.
 * 23 May – The German Alternative for Germany AfD is expelled from the Identity and Democracy.

June

 * 6–9 June – 2024 European Parliament election
 * 13 June – Hungary is fined 200 million euros, in addition to a daily one-million-euro fine by the European Court of Justice for "deliberately evading” compliance with European Union laws on migration and asylum seekers.
 * 18 June – Hungary's Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) leaves the European People's Party.   The Party is a Ally of Hungary's Fidesz which also left the European People's Party in 2021.
 * 21 June – The Czech ANO 2011 party decided to unilaterally withdraw from Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group as well as Renew Europe.
 * 30 June – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (Fidesz), former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO 2011) and former Austrian Minister of the Interior Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) form a new European group called the Patriots for Europe.

July

 * 1 July – The start of the 2024 Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
 * 10 July – the German Alternative for Germany (AfD) forms a new European group called Europe of Sovereign Nations. It will have Hungary's Our Homeland Movement, Bulgaria's Revival, Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy, Slovak Republic Movement.

Overviews

 * European Union
 * History of European Union
 * Outline of European Union
 * Politics of European Union
 * Timeline of European Union history
 * Years in European Union
 * History of modern European Union
 * Government of European Union

Related timelines for current period

 * 2024
 * 2024 in Europe
 * 2020s