Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 4Rejected

   Paragraph -1 c (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

   Added: -1c. Considers that, in the current circumstances, the main objectives to be pursued by mobilising funds from the EU budget should be: fostering proper employment and the creation of jobs with rights, combating poverty and social exclusion, furthering investment in productive and strategic sectors, promoting the sovereignty of Member States, particularly food and energy, protecting the environment and biodiversity, and supporting the reception and integration of all refugees and migrants;

2. Amendment 5Rejected

   Paragraph 12 a (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

   Added: 12a. Considering the spiralling cost of living and its marked impact on workers and their families, rising inequalities and social injustices, rocketing poverty and social deprivation levels, the amount allocated ESF+ needs to be ramped up to help to address these problems.

3. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph 12 b (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

   Added: 12b. Calls for the requisite amounts to be made available, whether by bolstering existing instruments and/or by establishing new instruments, with a view to supporting Member States in their efforts to invest and provide affordable public housing, thus helping to protect the fundamental right to decent, high-quality and accessible housing for all;

4. Amendment 7Rejected

   Paragraph 24 a (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

   Added: 24a. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in preventing and combating violence in its many forms and root causes and, at the same time, to adopt specific measures for each of its aspects, while safeguarding the balance of rights between men and women in all spheres of life: the right to physical and moral integrity, the right to legal protection and access to the courts to defend their rights; calls on the Commission to help the Member States to ramp up free, high-quality public health services, particularly services concerning sexual and reproductive rights and support for women victims of violence, and also by increasing the number of shelters and places, with specialised support for women with different nationalities and in a range of languages; takes the view, in this connection, that the financial envelope for the Daphne programme must be stepped up; takes the view that it is equally important to step up the financial envelope for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE);

5. Amendment 8Rejected

   Paragraph 26 a (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

   Added: 26a. Calls for programmes supporting culture to be stepped up and for new budget lines to be established that protect and promote cultural diversity and boost and democratise artistic creation and enjoyment, along with access to culture;

6. Amendment 10Rejected

   Paragraph 26 c (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

   Added: 26c. Rejects the increase in the budget allocations for militarisation, specifically, for arms, infrastructure, capacity and military mobility; rejects the ongoing growing militarisation of the EU; calls strongly for funds from the EU budget for external action (with the exception of official development aid), border surveillance and externalisation, militarisation and security communitisation programmes to be reallocated to help Member States to improve the economic and social state of affairs on the basis of the principle of economic and social cohesion, i.e. with a view to achieving convergence in economic and social progress;

7. Amendment 12Rejected

   Paragraph 29 b (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

   Added: 29b. Calls, furthermore, for the creation of a properly funded specific financial instrument to support the Member States and all organisations that have obligations arising from the nature restoration measures established in the regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on nature restoration; considers that such an instrument should include at least the following aspects: direct help for restoration measures, support for workers and micro-, small and medium-sized businesses and producers that may be affected, support for assessing the ecological and plant health of forests and for reforestation by native species, particularly in the countries hit hardest by forest fires;

8. Amendment 13Rejected

   Paragraph 31 a (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

   Added: 31a. Calls for an increase in the amounts for public investment in transport infrastructure and the promotion of public transport and sustainable mobility; calls for account to be taken of the urgent need for support for local and regional transport infrastructure in the Member States and not only cross-border links, with a particular focus on railways; rejects the use of the EU budget to strengthen public-private partnerships, promote privatisation and liberalise the sector;

9. Amendment 14Rejected

   Paragraph 33 a (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

   Added: 33a. Calls for specific programmes for farming to be stepped up with a view to fostering sustainable farming in every Member State and a farming industry capable of responding to the most pressing challenges, such as drought, the production shortfall and speculative increases in input costs, particularly by means of direct support for producers and, in the medium term, permanent support for green electricity and financing for small irrigation works, including the installation of ponds designed to retain water; calls for the decision to cut support under the small farmers scheme to be reversed; calls, further, for projects financed under the EU budget to foster short marketing channels and fair, stable and decent remuneration for producers and for the common agricultural policy to reflect fair distribution among countries, producers and types of production, doing away with the current disparities and benefiting in relative terms Member States with the highest production deficits;

10. Amendment 15Rejected

    Paragraph 33 b (new)

    Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

    Added: 33b. Calls for support to be made available to the fisheries sector to enable it to address, in an ambitious and practical manner, the rise in production costs faced by fisheries, particularly small-scale, artisanal and coastal fisheries; calls for the EMFAF to focus on improving fleets’ safety and working, health and hygiene conditions on board, on establishing compensation and income support mechanisms for fishers in the light of the instability of the profession, and on supporting an integrated maritime policy (promoting marine research and the development of maritime technology and engineering in all its forms, including the building of more environmentally sustainable ships, and port infrastructure under public management, which supports fishing, thus modernising the sector, ensuring the sector’s socio-economic viability and the sustainability of resources and protecting the outermost regions’ role and specific characteristics);

11. Amendment 16Rejected

    Paragraph 45 a (new)

    Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

    Added: 45a. Calls for the EU-Israel Association Agreement to be suspended, bearing in mind the prerogatives the agreement contains, following Israel’s brutal aggression against the Palestinian people; calls for the cancellation of Horizon 2020 funds that could be used in military or dual-use projects;

12. Amendment 17Rejected

    Paragraph 46 a (new)

    Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

    Added: 46a. Calls for greater support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to ensure proper funding so it can carry on and step up its humanitarian work saving lives;

13. Amendment 18Rejected

    Paragraph 47 a (new)

    Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

    Added: 47a. Calls for a significant stepping up of the budget lines on cohesion, which have been gradually cut from one budget to the next;

14. Amendment 19Rejected

    Paragraph 47 b (new)

    Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira, Manu Pineda · The Left

    Added: 47b. Calls for support for the outermost regions to be stepped up, particularly the programme of options specifically relating to remoteness and insularity (POSEI), for the POSEI fisheries scheme to be reinstated and for a POSEI transport scheme to be established with a view to providing additional support to compensate for the drawbacks of and losses caused by remoteness;

15. Amendment 21Rejected

    Paragraph 1

    Tabled by Dimitrios Papadimoulis · The Left

    … change, financial pressure, climate change and societal challenges, a reliable, robust, flexible, Added: people-centred and investment oriented EU budget remain instrumental for the implementation of the Union’s … transitions, in delivering prosperity and security for people and in boosting the Added: sustainability and competitiveness of the EU economy;

16. Amendment 22Rejected

    Paragraph 4

    Tabled by Dimitrios Papadimoulis · The Left

    4. Removed: Considers Added: Regrets that the outcome of the MFF revision Removed: to be below Added: falls significantly short of the initial aspirations of the Removed: EP; underscores Added: EP as well as of the Commission’s proposal; acknowledges that a revision of the MFF regulation is an essential prerequisite for ensuring medium-term financial support to Removed: Ukraine, Added: Ukraine and for enabling increased funding for targeted policy priorities, including the promotion of the EU’s strategic Removed: autonomy, Added: autonomy; stresses, however, that greater provision should have been made for avoiding cuts and for safeguarding Union programmes and the budget’s flexibility in the light …

17. Amendment 23Rejected

    Paragraph 12

    Tabled by Dimitrios Papadimoulis · The Left

    … dimension of EU spending, as a necessary feature for its legitimacy, should Removed: continue to be a Added: become a prominent cross-cutting criterion for all policy areas;

18. Amendment 24Rejected

    Paragraph 12 a (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Manu Pineda · The Left

    Added: 12a. Calls on the Commission to allocate funds to essential social services, such as healthcare, education and affordable housing, in order to directly support the working class rather than increasing unconditional subsidies for large, arms-producing multinationals;

19. Amendment 25Rejected

    Paragraph 18

    Tabled by Dimitrios Papadimoulis · The Left

    … the European Pillar of Social Rights and calls on the Commission to Removed: start reflections on a Added: develop a robust methodology for tracking social expenditure in the EU budget Removed: under the next programming period; Added: based on the principles of the Pillar; highlights the crucial role of the EU budget in contributing to initiatives …

20. Amendment 26Rejected

    Paragraph 24

    Tabled by Dimitrios Papadimoulis · The Left

    … necessary resources should be devoted to fighting gender-based violence and to supporting Removed: rights and Added: universal access to safe sexual and reproductive health Removed: services, Added: services and rights, to women’s rights organisations, as well as EU initiatives and bodies tackling Removed: discrimination against women; Added: discrimination, notably against women and the LGBTIQ+ community; calls on the Commission to facilitate access to the CERV programme as …

21. Amendment 27Rejected

    Paragraph 36 a (new)

    Tabled by Bogdan Rzońca · ECR

    Added: 36a. Stresses the urgent need to ensure the effective control of the EU’s external land and sea borders; strongly supports, therefore, EU budget contributions to finance the building of fences at the EU’s external borders; calls on the Commission to mobilise additional EU funds and means to support the Member States in reinforcing their border protection capabilities and infrastructure, including border crossing points, means of surveillance, such as aerial surveillance, and equipment; strongly condemns any attempts to instrumentalise migrants;

22. Amendment 31Rejected

    Paragraph 24 a (new)

    Tabled by Joachim Kuhs, Valentino Grant, Eric Minardi +1 · ID

    Added: 24a. Expresses its deep concern regarding the fact that the Commission has financed or co-financed campaigns promoting the Islamic veil, claiming, for example, that ‘freedom is in the hijab’; stresses that the Union budget must not finance any future campaign likely to promote the veil or indirectly trivialising the compulsory wearing of the veil;

23. Amendment 32Rejected

    Paragraph 33 a (new)

    Tabled by Joachim Kuhs, Valentino Grant, Eric Minardi +1 · ID

    Added: 33a. Calls for the EU not to undermine the European market of agricultural products by signing free-trade agreements with countries such as the Mercosur countries, which go against the interest of European farmers and create unfair competition; underlines that these actions hinder the significant efforts made by European farmers to meet environmental and higher quality standards;

24. Amendment 33Rejected

    Paragraph 35 a (new)

    Tabled by Joachim Kuhs, Valentino Grant, Eric Minardi +1 · ID

    Added: 35a. Underlines the failure of EU policies to prevent migration flows and human trafficking; reiterates its concerns about the use of funding allocated for migration, asylum and border protection and the role played by instruments such as the Internal Security Fund and the AMIF, which should, foremost, guarantee the proper implementation of a rigorous asylum policy in accordance with international law while blocking illegal immigration and ensuring border protection and an effective return and readmission policy;

25. Amendment 34Rejected

    Paragraph 40 a (new)

    Tabled by Joachim Kuhs, Valentino Grant, Eric Minardi +1 · ID

    Added: 40a. Calls for an immediate stop to the Union’s accession negotiations with Türkiye and the prompt suspension of the funding provided to that country, since Türkiye does not respect several of the basic principles of freedom and democracy and has stepped up its aggressive behaviour in the Mediterranean area and beyond, which is beginning to pose a real threat to many Member States;

26. Amendment 35Rejected

    Paragraph 42 a (new)

    Tabled by Joachim Kuhs, Valentino Grant, Eric Minardi +1 · ID

    Added: 42a. Stresses that any funding under the NDICI should be made conditional on the effective implementation of return and readmission agreements;

27. Amendment 36Rejected

    Paragraph 46 a (new)

    Tabled by Joachim Kuhs, Valentino Grant, Eric Minardi +1 · ID

    Added: 46a. Calls for the suspension of EU funding to UNRWA, following several allegations regarding the involvement of UNRWA staff in the brutal attack by Hamas against Israel in October 2023;

28. Amendment 38Rejected

    Paragraph 50 a (new)

    Tabled by Moritz Körner, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Tomáš Zdechovský +43 · Members

    Added: 50a. Requests that the Commission ensure that entities that provide financial support to individuals for the reason that these individuals committed or attempted to commit a terrorist act, or are related to someone who committed or attempted to commit a terrorist act, are not eligible for EU funding; this restriction shall also apply to the EU funding of third parties that directly or indirectly contribute to the financing of such entities;

29. Amendment 39Rejected

    Paragraph 44 a (new)

    Tabled by Moritz Körner, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Tomáš Zdechovský +39 · Members

    Added: 44a. Calls on the Commission to require all recipients of EU funds in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to sign a declaration in which they recognise Israel’s right to exist and condemn antisemitism; requests that the Commission suspend all payments to recipients that a) refuse to sign such a declaration, b) despite signing it, act against the spirit of such a declaration, or c) directly or indirectly contribute to the financing of beneficiaries that act against the spirit of such a declaration;

30. Amendment 40Adopted

    Paragraph 42 a (new)

    Tabled by Moritz Körner, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Tomáš Zdechovský +43 · Members

    Added: 42a. Regrets that the Commission has not conditioned payments to third countries more effectively as a means to enforce the Union’s geopolitical interests, in particular in relation to the Union’s migration policies, defence concerns, as well as in relation to human rights; calls on the Commission to set specific conditions and milestones for its payments to third countries in accordance with the particular political interests of the Union and to suspend without undue delay a relevant part of the payments if a third country fails to meet the set conditions; expects all responsible Commissioners-designate in their hearings to commit to this stricter interest-based conditioning of the EU budget towards third countries;

31. Amendment 41Rejected

    Paragraph 46

    Tabled by Moritz Körner, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Tomáš Zdechovský +38 · Members

    … funds by beneficiaries must respect EU rules and safeguards and international law; Removed: welcomes, in this regards, that the Commission’s review of EU aid to Palestine concluded that the controls and existing and effective safeguards in place work well and that no evidence has been found to date that money has been diverted for unintended purposes, as well as the risk assessment and related additional measures; Added: supports the efforts made by the EU and its Member States to provide humanitarian assistance to the people in need in the Middle East region; requests, therefore, that EU funds which in the past were provided to UNRWA should in future be provided to the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR);