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The European Parliament is due to adopt its negotiating mandate for the EU's 2028-2034 budget during the April plenary session. The report adopted by the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) defends a budget set at 1.27 % of EU gross national income (GNI), with the debt servicing for the Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery fund (0.11 % of GNI), set outside the budget ceilings. This is a 10 % increase compared with the Commission proposal. Adequate and distinct funding for EU priorities, proper democratic oversight ...

Europe's southern arc, spanning the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel, is increasingly viewed as a potential arena for renewed great-power rivalry, with some observers contending that such competition is already underway. In parallel with the European Union's broad engagement in the region, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has, since its founding, developed a range of initiatives aimed at its southern periphery, to deepen situational awareness, strengthen its regional presence ...

During the April 2026 plenary session, the European Parliament is expected to vote on its mandate for negotiations with the Council regarding the proposal for a regulation to simplify rules for chemicals, cosmetics and fertilisers, also known as the chemicals omnibus (Omnibus VI).

In the context of the current threats to global governance, the European Union (EU) has constantly affirmed its support for multilateralism, with the United Nations (UN) at its core. The European Parliament strongly supports rules-based multilateralism, and closely follows the EU's activity in the UN. A plenary debate is due to be held in April 2026, followed by the vote on a recommendation for the EU’s position in the 81st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) – which starts in New York on 8 ...

During its April 2026 plenary session, Parliament is set to vote on the provisional text of the revised Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) Regulation, agreed in interinstitutional negotiations on 1 December 2025. Among other changes, the co-legislators have added several international human rights and environmental conventions to the list of international treaties that participating countries must ratify to benefit from trade preferences. MEPs also negotiated stricter criteria that must be met ...

During the April plenary session, Parliament will examine a joint report submitted by the FEMM and LIBE committees on the importance of defining rape based on consent in EU and national legislation. This represents a renewed effort in this direction following the failure to include such provisions in the EU directive adopted in 2024. To date, most Member States have gradually reformed their criminal legal provisions on rape.

The United States' 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) continues the foreign-policy reorientation set out in the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS). It frames the United States (US) as confronting intensified threats at home and abroad and sets four lines of effort: defending the homeland, deterring China in the Indo-Pacific, increasing allied burden-sharing, and 'supercharging' the United States' defence industrial base. Russia is portrayed as a persistent yet 'manageable' threat, mostly to ...

During the April plenary session, as part of the discharge procedure for the 2024 financial year, Parliament is due to vote on the discharge for 33 EU decentralised agencies and 11 joint undertakings (JUs). The Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) recommends granting discharge to all the decentralised agencies, bodies and JUs concerned.

During the April plenary session, the European Parliament is to decide on granting discharge for the 2024 financial year to the different institutions and bodies of the EU. The vote on the discharge for the European Commission is the most important one, as its budget covers around 95 % of the whole EU budget. Since 2021, the discharge procedure includes the grant component of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Separate discharge is granted to the Commission concerning the management of the ...

The 84th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 84) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will be held in London from 27 April to 1 May 2026. This briefing aims to support the European Parliament delegation to MEPC 84 by providing an overview of the developments since the last MEPC meetings and discussing the key issues at stake, in particular the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships. This document was prepared by the Policy Department for Transformation ...