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February 17, 2026
Goal: Smooth trade relations.
EU‑UK Gibraltar Trade Deal: What It Means
This agreement is a legal deal between the EU and the UK (for Gibraltar) that sets rules for trading, customs, taxes, social security, road transport, and fighting tobacco smuggling, and it explains how both sides will share info, help each other enforce laws, and respect each other’s rules.
Truck Drivers & Border Guards
Goal: Smooth trade cooperation.
EU‑UK Gibraltar Deal: Trade, Customs, and Social‑Security Rules
This agreement is a legal deal between the EU and the UK (for Gibraltar) that sets rules for trading, customs, taxes, social security, road transport, and fighting tobacco smuggling, and it explains how both sides will share info, help each other enforce laws, and respect each other’s rules.
Truck Drivers & Border Guards
February 12, 2026
Goal: Fair trade enforcement
EU Rule to Stop Unfair Food Trade Deals
This regulation is a rule that makes EU law‑enforcement agencies work together to stop unfair trading practices in the food supply chain, sharing information, coordinating investigations, and enforcing fines across borders.
Farmers & Supply Chain Workers
Goal: Support Montenegro's EU integration.
Montenegro joins international agreement on cross-border court decisions
The European Parliament adopted a resolution welcoming Montenegro’s joining of the 2019 Convention on foreign judgments, noting it will create treaty ties with the EU, and instructing the Parliament’s President to forward it to the Commission and Council.
Importers & Exporters
Goal: Align EU GI rules
New Rules for Famous Food Names Like Champagne and Parma Ham
This regulation updates EU rules on geographical indications so they match the new Lisbon Union rules, letting the EU change GI names, types, areas and quality, dropping old notification steps, and it will start on July 1, 2026.
Farmers & Exporters
February 11, 2026
Goal: Protect public health
GM Corn T25: Should It Stay on the Market?
The European Parliament resolution on 11 Feb 2026 says the EU must not renew the market authorisation for GM maize T25 until more evidence on long‑term safety and environmental impact is available, and it calls for reforming the GMO approval process.
Farmers & Importers
Goal: Protect health & environment
EU Parliament rejects a GM soybean that can survive banned herbicides
The European Parliament passed a resolution rejecting a draft decision that would allow genetically modified soybean tolerant to glufosinate and glyphosate to be sold, citing health, environmental, and fairness concerns and calling for the decision to be withdrawn and GMO rules to be reformed.
Farmers & Environmental NGOs:NGOs
February 10, 2026
Goal: Protect farmers from imports
Farmers Get New Protection Against Cheap Mercosur Imports
The European Parliament passed a rule that lets the EU temporarily raise taxes on certain farm imports from Mercosur if they flood the market and hurt European farmers, with clear triggers and limits on how long the protection can last.
Farmers & Entrepreneurs
February 04, 2026
Goal: Global chemical safety
Global Ban on Dangerous Flame Retardant TBPH
Council Decision 2026/0029 (NLE) lets the EU submit a proposal to the Stockholm Convention to ban or restrict the dangerous flame‑retardant TBPH, protecting people and the planet.
Manufacturing Workers & SMEs: Small Businesses
February 03, 2026
Goal: Keep exports competitive
Permanent Discount Cuts Plane Export Fees
This resolution adds a permanent 29‑basis‑point credit adjustment to the EU’s aircraft export fee formula, lowering the surcharge so exporters pay less.
Exporters & Entrepreneurs
January 30, 2026
Goal: Help police cooperate
EU Begins Sharing Car Registration Data with the UK from March 2026
The EU has decided that from 1 March 2026 its member states can share personal vehicle registration data with the UK, as allowed by the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
Law Enforcement & Border Guards
January 29, 2026
Goal: Help Pakistan join IOC
EU Supports Pakistan’s Olive Council Membership
The EU is proposing a resolution to support Pakistan’s application to join the International Olive Council, letting it become part of the olive‑oil rules if it follows the share‑calculation rule and signs up within 1.5 years.
Farmers & Exporters
January 23, 2026
Goal: Boost EU‑Korean film ties.
EU and Korea Extend Film Co‑Production Deal
This resolution renews a three‑year EU‑Korea cultural cooperation deal, letting co‑productions keep using each side’s funding and market access to boost film and media collaboration.
Entrepreneurs & Exporters
January 22, 2026
Goal: Achieve EU digital sovereignty
Europe’s Plan to Build Its Own Tech
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.
Tech Startups & Entrepreneurs
Goal: Standardize truck rules
Mongolia Joins the EU Trucking Agreement
The EU will adopt a decision that lets Mongolia join the AETR, a rulebook for truck drivers, so Mongolia can follow the same driving and safety rules as EU countries.
Truck Drivers & Logistics Companies
January 21, 2026
Goal: Ensure EU rules are followed
Do Mercosur Trade Deals Match EU Laws?
The European Parliament is asking the Court of Justice to make sure a trade deal with Mercosur countries follows EU rules and won't weaken important laws.
Farmers & Environmental NGOs
Goal: Protect passenger rights
New Rules to Protect Air Travelers
The EU’s 2024‑2029 air passenger rights rules give travelers bigger cash payouts for delays, cancellations or denied boarding, free meals and lodging when flights are late, clearer baggage limits, help for kids and disabled people, and easier ways to file complaints, all to make flying fairer and safer.
Travelers & Tourists
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.
Entrepreneurs & Workers
Goal: Shape global trade rules
EU’s Mission to Strengthen Fair Trade and Tech Rules
The EU’s resolution for the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference says it will back reforms to dispute settlement, fisheries subsidies, food security and many agricultural rules, push for better trade help for developing countries, support new e‑commerce and investment agreements, and create a committee to study emerging technologies.
Fishermen & Farmers
January 19, 2026
Goal: Align olive oil standards
Olive Oil Standards Revamped: New Variety Added and Safer Test Introduced
This resolution lets the EU support changes to the International Olive Council’s rules, adding a safer test for olive‑oil quality and including the Coratina olive, so that EU and worldwide markets stay fair and consistent.
Farmers & Exporters