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March 26, 2026
Goal: Promoting global cooperation.
Building Stronger Connections: EU's Plan for Sustainable Growth and Development
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.
Exporters & Importers
Goal: Protecting workers from economic change
Austria gets €1.8 million to help KTM workers find new jobs
The European Parliament’s decision is a resolution that gives Austria €1.8 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to help 1,488 workers who lost jobs when KTM went bankrupt, covering training and job‑search support to get them back to work.
Workers & Manufacturing Workers
Goal: Strengthen research ties
Lebanon Joins Mediterranean Research and Innovation Partnership
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.
Researchers & Tech Startups
Goal: Fair trade after Brexit
EU‑China Trade Deal Revises All Tariff Quotas
The European Parliament passed a resolution approving the EU‑China trade deal that updates all tariff‑rate quotas after the UK left the EU, and it tells EU leaders and China to adopt the new rules.
Importers & Exporters
Goal: Align EU with global law
EU joins global effort to regulate ship sales
The European Parliament approved a resolution that says the EU can join the UN rule on selling ships, and it tells the EU leaders to send this decision to the Council, Commission, member‑state governments, parliaments, and the UN office.
Logistics Companies & Workers
Goal: Simplify AI compliance
New Rules to Regulate Artificial Intelligence in Europe
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.
SMEs & Tech Startups
Goal: Secure EU trade
U.S. lobster goes duty‑free, EU cuts U.S. tariffs on $160 million of goods
The European Parliament has made changes to a rule that allows certain goods from the US to be sold without taxes in the EU, extending the period it's allowed until 2028 and adding new rules to make sure the goods are actually coming from the US and not being re-exported elsewhere.
Importers & Exporters
Goal: Helping people after job loss
Helping Belgium Workers Affected by Company Bankruptcies
The European Parliament has approved a resolution to help workers in Belgium who lost their jobs due to major restructuring, providing up to €30 million in funding for personalized services like training and job search assistance.
Workers & Women
Goal: Keep trade fair and safe
Adjusting U.S. import duties and opening new trade quotas
The European Parliament adopted amendments to a regulation that suspends customs duties on certain U.S. goods, lets the EU lift or restore those duties if the U.S. raises tariffs or acts against EU interests, and keeps monitoring trade and protecting EU industry until March 2028.
Importers & Logistics Companies
Goal: Keep water clean and safe
New Rules to Clean Up Surface and Groundwater Pollution
The European Parliament has agreed on a new set of rules for water policy that will replace three existing laws, aiming to protect groundwater and improve environmental standards for water.
Farmers & Fishermen
Goal: Keep banks from failing
New Law to Help People in Financial Struggle
The European Parliament has agreed to a resolution that supports new rules for dealing with financial crises, which will be adopted by the EU leaders and published in an official journal.
Citizens of EU countries
Goal: Keep banks from failing
Stopping Bank Crashes Early: Rules, Conditions, and Funding
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution that updates rules for when a country's economy is struggling, making it easier to intervene early and improve conditions, while also clarifying how certain services are handled during this process.
Workers & Unions
Goal: Ensure deposit safety
New Rules to Protect More Bank Deposits and Boost Transparency
The European Parliament has approved a new directive that will improve deposit protection, increase transparency, and enhance cooperation between countries by broadening its scope.
Citizens of EU countries
Goal: Protect privacy rights
Ending the temporary chat‑scanning rule
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.
Tech Companies & IT Specialists
Goal: Prevent corruption.
New Law to Fight Corruption Across Europe
This EU law, adopted in March 2026, sets tougher rules to fight corruption by punishing bribery, theft and influence‑trading, requiring countries to create anti‑corruption plans, protect whistleblowers, and work together to investigate and prosecute offenders.
Law Enforcement & Workers
Goal: Accountability over immunity
Nikos Pappas’ immunity lifted after online defamation claim
The European Parliament passed a resolution on 26 March 2026 to waive the parliamentary immunity of Greek MEP Nikos Pappas, letting Greek authorities prosecute him for alleged defamation and insult that happened before he became an MEP.
Journalists & Law Enforcement
Goal: Hold politicians accountable
Removing immunity for MEP Grzegorz Braun after Holocaust denial statements
The European Parliament on 26 March 2026 decided to lift the parliamentary immunity of Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun so he can be prosecuted in Poland for denying the Auschwitz genocide in two public interviews.
Law Enforcement & Activists
Goal: Hold officials accountable
Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun Loses Immunity After Alleged Crimes
The European Parliament passed a resolution to waive MEP Grzegorz Braun’s parliamentary immunity, allowing Polish prosecutors to investigate and charge him with alleged crimes.
Law Enforcement & Journalists
March 25, 2026
Goal: Fast defence innovation
Fast‑Track Funding for New Defence Tech Start‑Ups
The EU AGILE Programme is a one‑year fast‑track funding plan that gives €115 million to small and medium defence companies to quickly develop and test new tech like AI, robotics and cyber tools, so they can get into the market faster and help Europe stay ready.
Tech Startups & AI Startups
Goal: Strengthen EU defense
Czech Republic Receives €2.06 Billion Loan to Boost Defence and Support Ukraine
The European Commission approved a loan of up to €2.06 billion for the Czech Republic under the SAFE program, giving them an initial €309 million upfront to help with defense production and support Ukraine.
Defence Workers & Czech Citizens