# Joint Declaration on the EU legislative priorities 2026 Canonical URL: https://digital-acquis.eu/strategy/joint-declaration-on-the-eu-legislative-priorities-2026 Entry type: strategy Source edition current through: 17 July 2026 (2026-07-17). This is not a page modification date. Status: not recorded. A delivered initiative is not necessarily legislation in force. Document type: Joint statement by the three key EU Institutions Release date: 2025-12-18 ## 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. ## Sources - [Official source]() ## Action items (3; complete published list) ### 1. Action item 110001 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. Provenance: source document doc-010, paragraph 1. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 2. Action item 110002 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. Provenance: source document doc-010, paragraph 2. Digital dimension: not recorded. ### 3. Action item 110004 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. Provenance: source document doc-010, paragraph 4. Digital dimension: not recorded. ## Current developments Latest updates from Digital Policy Alert and Global Trade Alert. No reviewed developments available; this does not establish that no developments exist. --- [Reading guide and interpretation notes]() ยท [Methodology]()