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January 22, 2026
Goal: Harmonize detergent regulations.
Cleaning Products Get Updated Rules
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on detergents that will replace the old rule, with the Parliament and the Council signing it, and it will be published and shared with other EU bodies.
Small Businesses & Manufacturing Workers
January 20, 2026
Goal: Keep EU economy stable
Keeping Money Safe When the Economy Gets Uncertain
The European Parliament passed a resolution that warns about economic risks and calls for stronger banking rules, better regulation of non‑bank lenders, digital security, climate checks, and support for small businesses to keep the EU economy stable.
SMEs & Small Businesses
Goal: Ensure medicine availability
Strengthening Medicine Supply in Europe
This regulation is a set of rules the EU will use to keep essential medicines always available by boosting local production, improving how medicines are bought and stocked, and coordinating supplies across member countries.
Small Businesses & SMEs
Goal: Create a unified business environment
New Rules for Europe's Startups
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.
SMEs & Small Businesses
December 18, 2025
Goal: Protect EU funds
Rule of Law Check: Making Sure EU Money Goes to the Right Places
This resolution says the EU must use its rule‑of‑law power to pause or stop funding to member states that break democracy, and it asks for clearer rules, faster action, better coordination with other tools, protection for people already promised money, stronger whistle‑blower channels, and more oversight.
SMEs & Small Businesses
December 17, 2025
Goal: Cut red tape.
Businesses Must Show Their Products Are Deforestation‑Free
The EU 2025 Deforestation‑Free Products Regulation is a rule that makes it easier for small producers to prove their goods don’t cause forest loss, forces traders and sellers to register, keep five‑year records, verify compliance, sets inspection percentages, big fines for violations, and plans regular reviews to keep the system working.
SMEs & Small Businesses
December 16, 2025
Goal: Fair trade, farmer protection
EU’s Quick Safeguard Rules for Farmers Facing Mercosur
The EU Parliament passed a resolution that speeds up monitoring and investigations, tightens the rules for stopping imports, adds extra health, safety and environmental checks, and cracks down on companies trying to dodge the rules, all to better protect EU farmers and consumers in the EU‑Mercosur farm trade.
Farmers & Environmental NGOs
Goal: Protect people and nature
Hold off on selling a risky GM sugar beet until safety is proven.
EU Parliament’s December 16, 2025 resolution says the EU must cancel the approval of the GM sugar beet KWS20‑1 until more thorough safety, environmental and farmer‑fairness data are available and the GMO decision‑making process must be reformed to include proper checks and member‑state votes.
Farmers & Environmental NGOs
Goal: Ensure ESG accountability.
Big Companies Now Must Report Their Impact on People, Planet, and Profit
The EU Parliament resolution adopts a directive that limits sustainability reporting and due‑diligence rules to only the biggest companies, simplifies audit and digital reporting requirements, sets new penalties, and offers a voluntary path for smaller firms.
SMEs & Small Businesses