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.

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.

This discharge is the European Parliament's official approval that the Ombudsman spent its money correctly, confirming that the office is doing a good job handling complaints and improving its services for EU citizens.

The European Parliament gave the EEAS a clean bill of health for 2024, saying the money was spent properly and giving it a list of things to fix.

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.

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.