EU Commission President Von der Leyen said the commission will launch a strategic dialogue with European refineries to lower costs and secure supplies.

France industrial production fell 0.3% MoM in August, driven mainly by a pullback in power generation that offset a 0.3% MoM rise in manufacturing. July's output had been the strongest since 2021 and economists had expected a slight increase for August. The print highlights continued weakness in the eurozone's second-largest economy; France narrowly avoided recession in 1H and now faces new headwinds. Markets worry the minority government may struggle to rein in a widening fiscal deficit, a dynamic that has intensified sovereign bond selling and pushed France's borrowing costs versus peers to levels not seen since the eurozone debt crisis.

Lithuanian parliament voted in favor of lifting the ban on nuclear weapons; this was the first of two required votes.