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February 23, 2026
Goal: Keep women safe from violence
NGOs Can Now Watch Istanbul Convention Committee Meetings
The EU approves a decision that lets NGOs observe Istanbul Convention Committee meetings, setting rules for how they can join and what they can do.
NGOs & Women
Goal: Keep women safe from violence
NGOs Granted Access to Women’s Safety and Refugee Discussions
This EU decision says the EU will let NGOs observe certain Council of Europe meetings on fighting violence against women, as long as they follow the set rules.
NGOs & Women
February 20, 2026
Goal: Uphold global trade rules
EU backs Uzbekistan’s bid to join the World Trade Organization
This resolution asks the EU to support a decision that would let Uzbekistan join the WTO, helping its economy grow and keeping trade rules fair.
Exporters & Importers
Goal: Keep food affordable
Cutting Duties on Nitrogen Fertilisers for One Year
The EU resolution temporarily lifts import taxes on certain nitrogen fertilisers for one year to help farmers keep costs down, but it will mean the EU loses about €59.5 million in revenue.
Farmers & Importers
February 19, 2026
Goal: Protect endangered species worldwide
Adding New Animals to Global Protection Lists
The EU will back adding 20 animals to the most protected list and 25 to the next list in the CMS treaty, keep a request to drop one deer on hold until more info comes, and this move won’t change any EU laws.
Environmental NGOs & NGOs
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: Unify financial rules
Unifying Financial Rules Across the EEA
This resolution amends the EEA Agreement to add EU financial rules, making Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein follow the same banking, insurance and market rules as EU countries, and share costs and supervision duties.
Entrepreneurs & Importers
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: Reduce cancer burden
Europe's New Plan to Beat Cancer
This resolution is an EU plan to fight cancer by boosting prevention, early detection, better treatment for women, kids, older people and rare cancers, and by making sure everyone can get good care and drugs at fair prices.
Women & Health Professionals
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: Defend freedom of expression
Turkey Expels Foreign Journalists and Christian Missionaries
The European Parliament passed a resolution that condemns Turkey’s deportation of foreign journalists and Christian missionaries, demands they stop using secret security codes, calls for fair trials and the return of those expelled, and urges Turkey to protect freedom of religion and expression.
Journalists
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