Joint Declaration on the EU legislative priorities 2026
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Summary
The declaration prioritises removing constraints on European competitiveness through simpler rules, improved access to capital, lower energy prices and stronger investment. It calls for deeper Single Market integration, support for research and scaleups, and progress towards an Energy Union. Proposals concerned with simplification and competitiveness receive particular emphasis. The declaration also links the clean transition with affordability and social balance. Its technological agenda focuses on investment in key technologies, including AI, reduced strategic dependencies, stronger supply chains and public procurement that encourages investment in Europe, supported by international partnerships and trade.
Action items
1–3 of 3 items
Source order · D = digital dimension- Item 1
We will double down on our efforts to tackle the bottlenecks holding back our competitiveness from ensuring an ambitious and horizontally-driven simplification and better regulation agenda, to unlocking access to capital and bringing down energy prices, boosting investment, supporting research, innovation and scale-ups, deepening the Single Market, and building a genuine Energy Union before 2030.
- Item 2
We will accelerate the work, as a matter of utmost priority, on all proposals with a simplification and competitiveness dimension. We will stay ensuring a fair and just, pragmatic, cost-effective, socially balanced, affordable and competitive clean transition.
- Item 3
We will work to strengthen our technological sovereignty and support investment in key technologies, including Artificial Intelligence. We will work reducing strategic dependencies, strengthening our supply chains, ensuring that public procurement incentivises investments in Europe, building technological leadership and indispensability and by deepening our partnerships, in particular, through trade.