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The wire — 31 October 2026
Saturday, 31 October — Halloween. No qualifying rounds reached the desk today.
The European funding announcement cycle is a Monday–Friday operation, and this Saturday lands at a particularly quiet juncture: it closes out a week the desk has already covered, and it precedes All Saints' Day (Toussaint) on 1 November — a public holiday in France and across much of Catholic Europe — making the Toussaint weekend longer than a standard Saturday break. Press offices and investor communications teams are offline; no announcement in the date window met the two-source threshold. Nothing was skipped for editorial reasons.
The next edition opens on Monday 2 November and will cover any rounds surfacing over the Toussaint weekend.
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