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.

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.

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.

The European Parliament has given the Court of Auditors a green light for its 2024 budget audit, saying the money was spent properly but asking for better data access, wider audits, more gender balance, clearer ethics rules, and stronger digital and environmental progress.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The European Parliament resolution says the EU should create one big defence market to cut spending, grow its own industry, and make Europe safer and less dependent on outside suppliers.

This resolution says the EU and Canada should step up their partnership to tackle big problems like trade, security, climate and democracy, by boosting trade deals, joint defense work, digital rules, Arctic cooperation, and cultural and student exchanges.

The European Parliament’s 2026 European Semester resolution says the EU will coordinate member‑state budgets to keep the economy stable, push for €800 billion of new green and defence investment, tighten fiscal rules, and urge countries to follow reforms and cut tax gaps.

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.

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.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution to make science better across Europe by letting researchers move freely, spending more money on new ideas, and making sure everyone gets fair pay and uses technology safely.