Launched in March 2024, the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) is a bottom-up process designed to develop a visionary and concrete plan for the future of the field. At its 225th session on 12 December 2025, the CERN Council received recommendations addressing a broad range of topics and goals related to research in high- energy physics in Europe and beyond, and has been reviewing them since. The electron–positron Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) was recommended as the preferred option for the next flagship collider at CERN as it would provide a platform for a visionary physics programme addressing many of the open questions in particle physics, notably about the Higgs boson, that are critical to understanding the foundations of the Standard Model and to opening up opportunities for discovering new physics beyond the Standard Model.

The full set of recommendations is available at this link.