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April 29, 2026
Goal: Ensure EU spending accountability
Reviewing Europe's investments in clean energy, digital life, and modern infrastructure
The European Parliament's decision approves the 2024 spending for 24 massive EU research projects—covering everything from clean energy to advanced chips—while also issuing a resolution that tells these groups they need to tighten up their money management and internal rules for the future.
Researchers & Tech Startups
Goal: Protect people's data rights
Review of the European Data Protection Supervisor’s 2024 Budget and Activities
The European Parliament's decision approves the EDPS, an independent watchdog that makes sure EU groups protect your data, confirming its spending while also giving it advice on how to handle new challenges like AI and cyber threats.
IT Specialists & Tech Companies
Goal: Keeping power in check
2024 Budget Review of the European Economic and Social Committee
This document is the European Parliament's annual discharge, which is basically a big audit confirming that the EESC spent its 2024 money responsibly and followed the rules, while also giving them a list of things they need to improve, like cybersecurity and internal controls.
Workers & Unions
Goal: Ensure EU spending transparency
Budget Approval Delayed Until Council Answers Questions
The European Parliament’s 29 April 2026 decision on the 2024 EU budget says it will not approve the Council’s spending until the Council answers its questions, attends a hearing, and makes its finances, ethics, and audit reports more transparent and accountable.
Citizens & Workers
April 07, 2026
Goal: Keep Europe safe from above
EU Space Agency Gets Permanent Status and New Powers
The European Commission wants to make the EU Space Services Agency a permanent agency in Prague, giving it a lasting legal basis, expanding its duties to certify security, run services like Galileo, grow the space market, and add new tasks such as managing IRIS2, space weather, debris, cybersecurity, and boosting the commercial space sector, with a bigger budget and more staff starting 1 January 2028.
Tech Companies & IT Specialists
March 31, 2026
Goal: Keep financial markets fair and safe
New EU rules for financial benchmarks in the EEA
The European Commission is proposing a decision that updates rules for financial services in the European Economic Area (EEA) to improve supervision and fees, which will affect 30 countries including EU, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.
Financial Services & Tech Companies
March 26, 2026
Goal: Strengthen research ties
Lebanon Joins Mediterranean Research and Innovation Partnership
The European Parliament approved a resolution that lets Lebanon join the EU’s Mediterranean research partnership and told the Parliament’s President to send the decision to the Council, Commission, and governments.
Researchers & Tech Startups
Goal: Simplify AI compliance
New Rules to Regulate Artificial Intelligence in Europe
This resolution simplifies and unifies EU AI rules, giving small companies lighter requirements, adding AI literacy support, banning non‑consensual sexual AI, allowing bias checks, creating a single conformity process, setting transition timelines, easing registration, launching EU sandboxes for SMEs, and tightening oversight of general‑purpose AI models.
SMEs & Tech Startups
Goal: Keep banks from failing
Stopping Bank Crashes Early: Rules, Conditions, and Funding
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution that updates rules for when a country's economy is struggling, making it easier to intervene early and improve conditions, while also clarifying how certain services are handled during this process.
Workers & Unions
Goal: Protect privacy rights
Ending the temporary chat‑scanning rule
The European Parliament rejected the plan to extend the Chat Control 1.0 rule, telling the Commission to drop it and informing the Council and national parliaments, so platforms can no longer voluntarily scan private messages for child abuse content.
Tech Companies & IT Specialists
Goal: Prevent corruption.
New Law to Fight Corruption Across Europe
This EU law, adopted in March 2026, sets tougher rules to fight corruption by punishing bribery, theft and influence‑trading, requiring countries to create anti‑corruption plans, protect whistleblowers, and work together to investigate and prosecute offenders.
Law Enforcement & Workers
March 20, 2026
Goal: Boost research collaboration
Japan Joins EU's Horizon Europe Research Programme
The EU and Japan have agreed that Japan can join the Horizon Europe research program as an associated country, letting Japanese researchers apply for funding while paying a yearly fee and following rules on money and fraud.
Researchers & Tech Startups
Goal: Strengthen global research ties
Japan Joins the EU’s Horizon Europe Research Program
The EU and Japan signed a deal that lets Japan join the Horizon Europe research program, giving Japanese scientists access to EU projects, requiring Japan to pay a share of the costs, and setting up joint work on science, tech, and green topics.
Researchers & Tech Startups
March 12, 2026
Goal: Global economic stability
EU Calls for Fairer Global Trade Rules
The European Parliament adopted a resolution that tells the WTO to modernize its rules, fix its dispute‑settlement system, curb unfair subsidies, support food security and digital trade, and make trade fairer for developing countries.
Farmers & Fishermen
March 11, 2026
Goal: Strengthen EU defence
EU's New Defence Projects: Drones, Borders, Air and Space Shields
The European Parliament resolution says the EU must raise defence spending, coordinate joint projects, and launch four flagship programmes—drone, eastern flank, air and space defence—to strengthen security against Russia, cyber attacks and new weapons, while ensuring funding, export controls and transparency.
Defence Workers & Military Personnel
Goal: Protect people from AI
EU Approves AI Human Rights Convention
The European Parliament approved a resolution to sign a new AI and human‑rights treaty, telling EU leaders and member states to agree and forward it to the Council of Europe.
Tech Companies & AI Startups
Goal: Protect children online.
Online Tools Get New Limits on Searching for Child Abuse Content
The European Parliament passed a resolution that tightens how online services can scan for child‑sexual‑abuse material, limiting the scan to known content and only the data needed, allowing focus on suspected users, using privacy‑friendly tools that don’t read content, and setting the rule to expire on August 3 2027.
Tech Companies & IT Specialists
March 10, 2026
Goal: Protect creators, grow AI
Protecting Creators as AI Gets Smarter
This resolution sets new rules that make AI companies pay creators for using their work to train AI and be clear about the data they use so everyone gets protected and paid fairly.
Journalists & Tech Startups
February 26, 2026
Goal: Reduce gun crime
New Rule to Stop Illegal Gun Trade and 3‑D Printed Firearms
The EU Directive on Combating Firearms Trafficking is a new set of rules that makes it easier for police to catch and punish people who make, sell, move, or use illegal guns—including those made with 3‑D printers—and forces all member states to share information and follow the same penalties.
Law Enforcement & Border Guards
February 16, 2026
Goal: Support Estonia's recovery
Revising Estonia's €953 million Recovery Plan
The EU is updating Estonia's recovery plan by tweaking five projects (scaling back some renewable energy goals, improving others, and boosting a rail project) while keeping the same €953 million funding to help Estonia modernize its economy, go green, and improve public services.
SMEs: Small Businesses & Tech Startups