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April 29, 2026
Goal: Protect health and nature
GM Soybean MON 94637: Safety Concerns Block Approval
The European Parliament’s resolution says the EU Commission must halt approval of the GM soybean MON 94637 because the safety evidence is incomplete and the decision process lacks enough member‑state support.
Farmers & Importers
Goal: Protect EU jobs and standards
Keeping EU Companies, Jobs and Products Safe from Unfair Foreign Competition
The European Parliament resolution says the EU must tighten rules and use trade‑defence tools to stop unfair foreign competition, protect jobs, and keep EU products safe and fair for consumers.
Exporters & Importers
Goal: Make travel easier and cheaper
Transatlantic Air Transport Agreement with Iceland and Norway
The European Parliament approved a resolution that clears the way for new air‑travel agreements between the EU, the US, Iceland, and Norway, letting airlines from each side fly freely, setting shared safety and passenger‑rights rules, and opening up more routes and potentially lower fares.
Tourism Industry & Workers
Goal: Reduce regulatory burden
Simplifying rules for everyday products and chemicals
This EU resolution simplifies chemical rules by cutting paperwork, adding digital contacts, easing labelling, and speeding up cosmetic and fertilizer approvals while keeping safety high.
Manufacturing Workers & Workers
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: Making sure EU money is spent right
EU Agencies 2024 Budget Clearance and Performance Review
The European Parliament on 29 April 2026 approved the 2024 accounts of 31 EU agencies, officially cleared them to keep using their budgets, and issued a resolution that demands more transparency, better performance tracking, tighter procurement rules, stronger cybersecurity, and more efficient use of money.
Law Enforcement & Border Guards
April 27, 2026
Goal: Keep EU economy strong
New zero‑duty import quotas for selected agricultural and industrial goods
This EU regulation amends tariff quotas so that certain products can enter the EU at zero duty, adding new items, tweaking existing ones, and dropping a few, to keep supply stable and help businesses compete, starting July 1 2026.
Importers & Exporters
April 23, 2026
Goal: Reduce carbon emissions
New Rules to Make Trains Run Smarter Across Europe
The EU is putting new rules in place so trains can use tracks more efficiently across the continent, giving countries more control, keeping military trains exempt, making penalties fair, and setting up a platform for train operators and track managers to coordinate, all to improve service and cut emissions.
Logistics Companies & Workers
Goal: Ensure healthy forests
New Rules for Tree Seeds and Cuttings to Protect Forests
A letter from the EU Commission to Parliament that explains a new law tightening rules on tree seeds and cuttings so they’re healthier, pest‑free, and more climate‑resistant, while making buying and selling of that material safer and clearer.
Forest Owners & Timber Companies
April 20, 2026
Goal: Support Syria's recovery
EU Ends Trade Pause with Syria
The EU is proposing a resolution to end the temporary pause on its trade agreement with Syria, officially restoring the original deal and signaling support for Syria’s recovery, without changing current trade rules or prices.
Exporters & Importers
April 16, 2026
Goal: Keep trains safe across borders
Updating the rules for cross-border train travel
This is a proposal for the EU to vote on six updates to international train rules, aiming to match EU safety standards, give more time for paperwork, add safety devices and better digital tracking, while rejecting a confusing certificate format.
Logistics Companies & Importers
April 14, 2026
Goal: Align EU customs policy.
Setting Rules for Valuing and Tracing Imported Goods
This EU Council decision sets rules for how the EU will act in global customs meetings so goods are valued and labeled by origin in a fair and consistent way that protects EU interests.
Exporters & Importers
April 10, 2026
Goal: Simplify drug trade
Expanding Canada‑EU Medicine Trade Rules to Cover Active Ingredients
The EU Council will adopt a resolution adding active pharmaceutical ingredients to the GMP Protocol under CETA, letting Canada’s drug‑making standards be recognized for these ingredients once Canada finishes its internal checks.
Health Professionals & Importers
Goal: Making Europe greener and stronger
Denmark's Recovery Plan Updated: More Green Projects, Less Red Tape
The EU approved a revised Denmark Recovery and Resilience Plan that cuts some hard‑to‑do projects, simplifies others, and moves money to boost home energy efficiency and vehicle tax priorities, while keeping the plan fully funded and giving it a positive assessment.
Farmers & Construction Companies
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
April 01, 2026
Goal: Future climate stability
Stop Removing Carbon Allowances to Keep the Market Balanced
This resolution proposes to stop automatically scrapping carbon allowances from the EU’s Market Stability Reserve after 2024, keeping more allowances in the reserve to help keep the carbon market stable and support climate targets.
Manufacturing Workers & Construction Companies
March 26, 2026
Goal: Promoting global cooperation.
Building Stronger Connections: EU's Plan for Sustainable Growth and Development
The European Parliament’s resolution on the Global Gateway (2024‑2029) is a plan that says the EU will spend €306 billion on smart, clean, and secure projects with partner countries, making sure the money follows development rules, helps local businesses, protects people and the planet, and keeps projects transparent and accountable.
Exporters & Importers
Goal: Fair trade after Brexit
EU‑China Trade Deal Revises All Tariff Quotas
The European Parliament passed a resolution approving the EU‑China trade deal that updates all tariff‑rate quotas after the UK left the EU, and it tells EU leaders and China to adopt the new rules.
Importers & Exporters
Goal: Align EU with global law
EU joins global effort to regulate ship sales
The European Parliament approved a resolution that says the EU can join the UN rule on selling ships, and it tells the EU leaders to send this decision to the Council, Commission, member‑state governments, parliaments, and the UN office.
Logistics Companies & Workers
Goal: Secure EU trade
U.S. lobster goes duty‑free, EU cuts U.S. tariffs on $160 million of goods
The European Parliament has made changes to a rule that allows certain goods from the US to be sold without taxes in the EU, extending the period it's allowed until 2028 and adding new rules to make sure the goods are actually coming from the US and not being re-exported elsewhere.
Importers & Exporters