The EU Parliament passed a resolution that updates rules for measuring devices, adding new accuracy standards for EV charging stations, gas pumps, and smart meters, and giving companies time to meet the new rules.

The European Union Design Regulation 2026 is a new law that protects the look of products, giving designers exclusive rights for up to 25 years if they register (or 3 years if they don’t), and it replaces the old 2002 rule.

The European Parliament passed a resolution that sets a new EU climate goal of cutting greenhouse‑gas emissions by 90 % by 2040 compared with 1990, and it tells the Commission to make this target part of EU law, review rules after 2030, and give more time for certain sectors to start emissions trading.

The EU resolution on European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure says the EU must build its own tech—chips, AI, data centres, satellites, and better internet—while boosting skills, cutting rules, and making Europe less dependent on outside tech so it can be safer, greener, and more competitive.

The European Parliament passed a resolution to quickly upgrade the EU’s drone defence, boosting local production, supply‑chain security, counter‑drone tech, training, and cooperation with partners to keep up with rising drone threats.

This resolution says the EU Parliament wants a simpler, clearer system to track how EU money is spent, using reliable indicators that show real results, so the money boosts competitiveness and is transparent.

The European Parliament passed a resolution creating a new EU company type called Societas Europaea Unificata (S.EU) that lets small and medium businesses set up a single, easy‑to‑register company that can operate across all 27 member states, with digital tools, low capital, and worker protections.

This European Parliament resolution says Europe must raise defence spending to fill an €800 billion gap by 2030, boost its own industry and small‑firm loans, buy and build more equipment inside the EU, and use new funding tools so the continent can respond fast to any new threat.

The EU Parliament passed a rule that creates and funds huge AI‑and‑quantum‑computer factories, lays out how they’re run, who can use them, and how they’re paid for, all while requiring strict security, sustainability and fair access.

The European Parliament approved a new science‑and‑tech deal that lets Jordan join the Mediterranean research partnership PRIMA, and asked EU leaders and Jordan’s government to move forward with it.

The European Parliament approved a resolution that gives Sweden €8.5 million from the Globalisation Adjustment Fund to help workers who lost their jobs when Northvolt went bankrupt, funding training, job‑search support and other services so they can find new work in green and digital industries.