All EU Activity
Updated todayMore
More
February 18, 2026
Goal: Protect water, simplify law
EU Water Rules Get a Boost: Stronger Limits, Faster Response
This resolution updates EU water laws to add stricter limits on pollutants, improve monitoring and reporting, and make rules easier to enforce, aiming to protect people and ecosystems.
Farmers & Environmental NGOs
February 17, 2026
Goal: Prevent financial crises
New Rules for Overseeing Large Financial Groups to Better Protect People’s Money
This Directive is a new set of rules that brings together and simplifies how banks, insurance companies, investment firms and their groups are supervised in the EU, making them keep enough capital, report risks and big internal deals, and letting one main authority coordinate the checks across countries.
Banks & Insurance Companies
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 16, 2026
Goal: Support Estonia's recovery
Revising Estonia's €953 million Recovery Plan
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.
SMEs: Small Businesses & Tech Startups
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: End violence, protect civilians.
Civilians in Crisis: Fighting, Displacement, and the Fight for Peace in Northeast Syria
The resolution asks everyone involved in Northeast Syria—Syria, the SDF, Turkey, the EU, the US and others—to stop fighting, protect civilians, respect human rights, and help rebuild the area so all people can live safely.
NGOs & Journalists
Goal: End poverty for all
A Plan to End Poverty for Everyone
The European Parliament passed a resolution on February 12, 2026, pushing for a big new plan to fight poverty across the EU from 2025 to 2095, aiming to end poverty by 2035 through stuff like free school meals, better wages, more affordable housing, and at least 20 billion euros to help kids and families who are struggling.
Women & Children
Goal: Fair labor, fair competition
Keeping Jobs Fair: Ending Subcontract Abuse
The European Parliament’s resolution on subcontracting chains and intermediaries is a plan to stop worker exploitation and make competition fair by tightening rules, increasing transparency, boosting inspections, and holding companies accountable.
Workers & Entrepreneurs
Goal: Promote gender equality worldwide
EU's Plan to Strengthen Gender Equality and Protect Women Everywhere
This recommendation to the EU Council for the 70th UN Women’s conference lays out a plan to boost gender equality by funding inclusive policies, improving legal help for women, fighting all forms of violence, protecting reproductive rights, ensuring digital safety, and urging EU leaders to defend women’s rights worldwide.
Women & Activists
Goal: Demand democratic reforms
Uganda’s 2026 Election: Fraud, Violence, and Oppression of Opposition Leaders
The European Parliament passed a resolution that calls Uganda’s 2026 elections “unfair and violent,” demands the release of jailed opposition leaders, ends military trials, restores internet freedom, and urges independent investigations and reforms to make the country’s elections and justice system fairer.
Journalists & Activists
Goal: Hold Iran accountable.
Iran’s Repression: Arrests, Torture, and the Call for Justice
The European Parliament’s February 2026 resolution condemns Iran’s brutal human‑rights abuses, demands the death penalty be stopped, all detainees be freed, tougher sanctions be imposed, and the UN investigate and prosecute the crimes.
Women & Activists
Goal: Global vehicle rule alignment
EU Seeks Safer, Cleaner Cars and Trucks in Global Rules
This decision is the EU’s vote to back a large bundle of new and updated car rules at the 198th UNECE meeting, so EU car laws stay in line with worldwide standards and help make cars safer, smarter, and cleaner.
Truck Drivers & Logistics Companies
Goal: Align EU with ICAO
Stricter Rules to Cut Plane Noise and Pollution
The EU will back new ICAO rules that set stricter limits on aircraft noise, engine pollution, and CO₂, and will follow them or flag any differences with EU law.
Manufacturing Workers & Entrepreneurs
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: Democratic budget oversight
Revising the EU’s 2021‑2027 Budget Plan
This resolution is the European Parliament’s approval of a draft regulation that updates the EU’s 2021‑2027 budget plan and tells the Council, Commission, and national parliaments to move forward with it.
Citizens of EU countries
Goal: Help Ukraine recover
Ukraine Support Loan: €90 Billion Aid for 2026‑2027
The European Parliament passed a regulation that creates a €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan for 2026‑27, which will be paid back only after Ukraine receives war‑reparations from Russia and can be covered by frozen Russian assets, with €30 billion for budget help and €60 billion for defence, while Ukraine must keep democratic rules, fight corruption, and report how the money is spent.
Defence workers & Military Personnel
Goal: Help Ukraine recover
New Loan to Help Ukraine Rebuild Economy and Defence
The European Parliament passed a resolution adding a Ukraine Support Loan to the Ukraine Facility, using Russia’s reparations to help Ukraine’s economy, defence and reforms, and changing how borrowing subsidies and loan updates are handled.
Defence workers & Military Personnel
February 10, 2026
Goal: Ensure ECB accountability
European Central Bank's 2025 Plan: Stable Prices, Digital Euro, and Equality
The European Parliament resolution on the ECB’s 2025 annual report says the ECB must keep prices stable, act independently, shrink its balance sheet, support EU economic goals, and improve digital payments while staying transparent and accountable.
Entrepreneurs & Exporters