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.

The EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act is a new law that fast‑tracks factory permits, forces public buyers to choose low‑carbon EU products, and vets big foreign investments so the region can grow jobs, stay competitive, and cut emissions.

The European Commission proposes an update to Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, revising 40 measures to keep goals on track, simplify paperwork, fix mistakes, and keep climate and digital targets while keeping the EU funding unchanged.

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.

The EU Council Decision adds Sweden’s SEK 2 billion (which doesn’t have to be paid back) to the Ukraine Facility, giving Ukraine more money to fund reforms and projects in areas like public services, justice, energy, and the environment, and it starts right away.

Lithuania’s amended Recovery and Resilience Plan updates 69 measures to reflect new realities, simplifies many, adds a new transparency measure, and adjusts costs and timelines while the EU keeps a positive assessment.

The European Council updated Sweden’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, keeping the EU money the same but changing the plan’s measures, timelines, and spending details.

The European Commission updated Spain’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, tweaking 85 measures, adding a few new ones, cutting the loan part, and keeping the €79.85 billion grant the same so the plan is easier to run while still pushing climate, digital and economic goals.

This resolution tweaks Ireland’s Recovery and Resilience Plan by dropping or updating 20 measures, reshuffling deadlines, keeping the full €1.15 billion EU funding, and adding a strict monitoring system to make sure the plan stays on track.

The European Council updated the Netherlands’ Recovery and Resilience Plan, tweaking 34 measures, adding two new ones, keeping the EU money the same, and adjusting the budget and timeline so the plan stays on track.

This EU regulation sets national targets for companies to buy more zero‑emission cars and vans, phases out subsidies for polluting vehicles, and aims to cut transport emissions while saving companies money.