EU news monthly: October
|ANO party has won parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic. ANO received just under 35% of the vote, earning them 80 seats.
French President Emmanuel Macron has named Minister of Defence Sébastien LeCornu as France’s new prime minister. Howeever France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has resigned, less than a day after his cabinet was unveiled.
EU annual inflation was 2.4% in August 2025, stable compared to July. A year earlier, the rate was 2.4%.
In the second quarter of 2025, 54.0% of net electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy sources, an increase from the 52.7% registered in the same quarter of 2024.
The share of full electric cars in 2024 was 16% for EU car imports and 12% for exports (1% and 0.8% in 2017). Plug-in hybrid cars represented 6% of car imports last year and 5% of car exports (0.6% and 1% in 2017), and the share of non-plug-in hybrid cars was 21% for imports and 11% for exports (6% and 0.4% in 2017).
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