General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 - all sections

Tabled by Pasquale Tridico

Added: 40 a. Recalls that programmes under Heading 2b play a key role in ensuring resilience and values by providing support and opportunities for young people through Erasmus+, including support to the Special Olympics World Games (SOWG) 2025, and through the European Solidarity Corps; emphasises that both programmes are required by law to put in place measures to boost participation rates among people with fewer opportunities and from disadvantaged backgrounds; recalls the important role that Erasmus+ could play in supporting youth employment by supporting the professional development of youth workers; believes however that the full potential of the Erasmus+ programme is not exploited fully in this respect; calls for more funding to further reinforcing the partnership aspect of the programme strengthening the links between educational institutions and employers, ensuring that curricula align with industry needs; calls for a readjustment of Erasmus+ grants to account for higher inflation and higher living costs; proposes to reinforce support for the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme, to invest in preventing cardiovascular diseases (CVD), cancer diseases, rare diseases and diseases affecting mental health, by increasing EU4Health, to invest in skills development, including through reskilling and upskilling, to ensure social security coordination in order to facilitate labour mobility and easier transfer of social security benefits and to support vulnerable communities, as well as rural, isolated, insular and mountainous areas, social dialogue, labour mobility, trade unions, and the cultural and creative sectors;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE764.137