Guidelines for the 2026 Budget - Section III

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 3Rejected

   Paragraph 1 (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 1. Calls for the EU budget to be ramped up in an effort to tackle the socio-economic plight that peoples and Member States are facing, which has been compounded by the rising cost of living, among other aspects;

2. Amendment 4Rejected

   Paragraph 1 a (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: -1a. Calls, further, for the budget’s redistributive function to be stepped up, providing support for efforts to achieve real convergence in economic and social progress between Member States;

3. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph -1 c (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: -1c. Calls for the EU’s long-term budget to encourage the full harnessing of the development potential of each country, through public investment, by supporting and modernising productive and strategic sectors, investing in and boosting the efficiency of public services, creating jobs with rights and promoting full employment, working to eradicate poverty, combating social exclusion and inequality, conserving and restoring ecosystems, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and seeking to forge external relations rooted in solidarity, cooperation, mutual respect and peace;

4. Amendment 7Rejected

   Paragraph 4 a (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 4a. 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;

5. Amendment 8Rejected

   Paragraph 6 a (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 6a. Calls for the next EU budget to include an increase in the allocations intended for public investment in transport infrastructure and for 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 for transnational connections, with a particular focus on rail infrastructure; is opposed to the use of the EU budget to strengthen public-private partnerships, to further privatisation or to open up the transport sector;

6. Amendment 9Rejected

   Paragraph 6 b (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 6b. Expresses its opposition to the allocation of budgetary appropriations to militarism, namely for war, weapons and military infrastructure, capacity and mobility; is against the growing militarisation of the EU; calls strongly for the reallocation of funds from the EU budget earmarked for militarisation programmes, redirecting them towards helping Member States to improve the economic and social picture on the basis of the principle of social and economic cohesion, to step up the responsiveness of public services, including in health, education and social security, and to uphold the right to decent and affordable housing for all;

7. Amendment 10Rejected

   Paragraph 6 c (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 6c. Insists that the EU budget should support the defence of peace and disarmament, the UN Charter and international law, sovereignty and democracy, multilateralism, diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of international conflicts, the rights of peoples and human rights, and should promote a system of collective security for Europe with a view to creating an international order capable of ensuring peace and justice in relations between peoples;

8. Amendment 11Rejected

   Paragraph 7 a (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 7a. Calls for the EU budget to include a programme protecting productive sectors and jobs, targeting those countries which, throughout the integration process, were the most disadvantaged by common policies, the Economic and Monetary Union and the single currency;

9. Amendment 13Rejected

   Paragraph 14

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   14. Removed: Stresses Added: Criticises the cuts to EMFAF allocations in the 2025 budget; stresses the strategic role of fisheries and aquaculture and the need for them to Removed: be adequately supported financially; acknowledges that the common fisheries policy ensures Added: receive adequate financial support; calls for the 2026 budget to compensate for the cuts made in 2025 and to increase the allocations in the EMFAF to enable the fisheries sector to address, in an ambitious and practical way, the increase in production costs faced by fisheries, in particular small-scale, artisanal and coastal fisheries; believes that the EMFAF should help ensure a stable income and long-term future for Removed: fishers by contributing to protecting sustainable marine ecosystems, which are key to the sector’s competitiveness; Added: fishers, help establish compensation and support mechanisms for fishers in the light of the instability of the profession, help support an integrated maritime policy, while protecting the outermost regions’ role and particular characteristics and contributing to the protection of sustainable marine ecosystems; insists that special attention must be Removed: devoted Added: given to the EU’s fishing fleet in order to improve safety and security, … actions and improving working conditions, energy efficiency and sustainability, as well as Removed: by renewing Added: to renew the fleet; reaffirms that the European Removed: Maritime, Added: Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund Added: (EMFAF) should support a human resources policy capable of addressing future challenges, in …

10. Amendment 14Rejected

    Paragraph 10 b (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 10b. Calls for the creation of additional and specific EU funding for the expansion and renovation of the public housing stock, the fight against property speculation and the defence of the right to decent and affordable housing for all;

11. Amendment 15Rejected

    Paragraph 11 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 11a. Advocates marshalling financial resources so as to guarantee the universal right to water and sanitation and the defence of public water and public ownership and management of water and sanitation services;

12. Amendment 16Rejected

    Paragraph 14 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 14a. Believes that, in view of rising living costs and their substantial impact on the lives of workers and their families, deepening inequality and social injustice, the persistently high level of poverty and social exclusion, the 2026 budget needs to allocate significantly more resources to the European Social Fund Plus, so as to help Member States address these challenges;

13. Amendment 17Adopted

    Paragraph 14 b (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 14b. Points out that, at the end of 2023, around 20 million children were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, which is roughly one quarter of all children in the EU; believes, therefore, that the EU’s budget needs to step up efforts to combat poverty among children, including migrant children, children with disabilities and children living in precarious family situations, in accordance with the European Child Guarantee; reiterates its earlier calls for the ESF+ envelope to include a specific and significant budget for fighting child poverty;

14. Amendment 18Rejected

    Paragraph 20 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 20a. Calls for the 2026 budget to include the objective of allocating at least 0.7 % of the EU Member States’ Gross Domestic Product to official development assistance, as per the aim laid down in UN General Assembly Resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970 and repeated in paragraph 43 of the document ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’;

15. Amendment 19Rejected

    Paragraph 21 c (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 21c. Calls for the principle of economic, social and territorial cohesion to be defined as a horizontal principle in the EU budget, making the assessment of the impact on cohesion between and within Member States of all expenditure, policies or actions a requirement, with the aim of promoting effective convergence in economic and social progress;

16. Amendment 20Rejected

    Paragraph 24 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 24a. Calls for more funding for the programmes addressing remoteness and insularity (POSEI), the restoration of a POSEI scheme for fisheries and the creation of a new POSEI scheme for transport, in order to protect and raise the profile of the outermost regions by means of financial resources, programmes and measures (whether permanent or exceptional) supporting insular regional economies;

17. Amendment 22Adopted

    Paragraph 25 a (new)

    Tabled by Stine Bosse · Renew

    Added: 25a. Calls for the full and urgent implementation of the Agreement establishing an interinstitutional body for ethical standards for members of institutions and advisory bodies referred to in Article 13 of the Treaty on European Union; believes that the Huawei corruption scandal adds special urgency to starting the work of the body without delay; commits to providing the necessary financial and human resources to allow the body to fulfil its mandate and implement its tasks properly;

18. Amendment 24Rejected

    Paragraph 12

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza, Bogdan Rzońca, Charlie Weimers +1 · ECR

    … borders; calls, in addition, for appropriate funding for border protection capabilities, including Added: border barriers, return hubs in non-EU countries, physical infrastructure, buildings, equipment, systems and services required at border crossing points, as provided Removed: for Added: for, but not limited thereto, in Annex III to the BMVI Regulation21, and for the requirements to …

19. Amendment 25Rejected

    Paragraph 12 a (new)

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza, Bogdan Rzońca, Charlie Weimers +1 · ECR

    Added: 12a. Recalls that cooperation with non-EU countries, particularly in the Mediterranean region and south-eastern Europe, is essential for a sustainable migration strategy; emphasises that establishing return hubs outside the EU, supported by EU co-financing, would increase return rates of illegal non-EU nationals;

20. Amendment 26Rejected

    Paragraph 16 a (new)

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza · ECR

    Added: 16a. Recalls that families are the main pillar that supports the social expenditure of the EU, especially those with children in their care, and that they therefore must be the subject of special attention in all aspects of the EU budget, in the fiscal policy recommendations and in the European Pillar of Social Rights priorities;

21. Amendment 27Rejected

    Paragraph 17

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza, Bogdan Rzońca, Charlie Weimers +1 · ECR

    … year 2024 was assessed to be the planet’s warmest year on record; Removed: calls for sufficient funding for the LIFE programme to finance climate and environment-related projects, including in the area of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and for increased budgetary flexibility to adequately respond to natural disasters in the EU; regrets that increasing numbers of natural disasters have led to a high …

22. Amendment 28Rejected

    Paragraph 39

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza, Bogdan Rzońca, Charlie Weimers +2 · ECR

    … the implementation of the European Green Deal and the 2030 biodiversity strategy; Added: reaffirms that the goals of the Green Deal cannot be achieved without nuclear energy; considers that the Union must prioritise defence over climate spending given the scarcity of the resources;

23. Amendment 29Adopted

    Paragraph 11

    Tabled by Karlo Ressler · PPE

    … responsibility; stresses that effective management and protection of the EU’s external borders, Removed: both land Added: inland, air and maritime, are essential for maintaining the freedoms of the Schengen area … the EU and its citizens; emphasises the need to better protect people Removed: from Added: by preventing trafficking and enhance support to strengthen cross-border cooperation between the Member States and the Union in combating Added: terrorism, organised crime, drug trafficking and criminal networks, particularly those involved in migrant smuggling and human trafficking, so … support Member States facing hybrid threats, in particular the instrumentalisation of migrants Added: on the Union’s borders as defined in the Crisis Regulation20; 20 Regulation (EU) 2024/1359 of the …

24. Amendment 30Adopted

    Paragraph 12

    Tabled by Karlo Ressler · PPE

    … and Integration Fund play in protecting external borders; calls, in addition, for Removed: appropriate Added: adequate funding for border protection Removed: capabilities, Added: capabilities as an essential part of a comprehensive migration policy, including physical infrastructure, buildings, equipment, systems and services required at border crossing … of reception conditions, integration, return and readmission procedure; reaffirms that cooperation agreements Added: on migration and asylum management with non-EU countries in full respect of international law can help to prevent Added: and counter irregular migration and strengthen border security; 21 Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 of the …

25. Amendment 33Adopted

    Paragraph 19 a (new)

    Tabled by Karlo Ressler · PPE

    Added: 19a. Recalls that families are the main pillar that supports the burden of social expenditure in the EU, especially those with children in their care; notes, at the same time, that families are also those who are suffering the most and enduring the consequences of the successive economic crises that we have suffered over the last 15 years; stresses, for all these reasons, that they must be the subject of special attention in the relevant aspects of the EU budget and of the European Pillar of Social Rights priorities;

26. Amendment 34Rejected

    Paragraph 1 a (new)

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    Added: 1a. Stresses that the 2026 budget should avoid creating burdens for citizens and must aim to be more efficient, transparent and performance-based, providing concrete reductions in administrative expenditure and granting an efficient and accountable use of taxpayers’ money; underlines also the need to properly evaluate which funds could be better managed at national level in order to ensure full respect for the principle of subsidiarity;

27. Amendment 35Rejected

    Paragraph 3 a (new)

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    Added: 3a. Highlights that new measures adopted at EU level should not create an additional burden on SMEs;

28. Amendment 36Rejected

    Paragraph 4 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: 4a. Calls for a redirection of Horizon Europe funds towards technological innovation, and an end to its scattering on topics such as ‘Eco-Islam in Indonesia’, ‘White Islam: a new religion for Europeans’, ‘Integrating gender norms into innovation processes’, ‘Intersectional approach to energy solutions’ or ‘Gendered analysis of virtual reality’; calls for an end to the requirement to ‘integrate the gender dimension into research and innovation projects’ and to the obligation to ‘adopt a gender equality plan’ in order to apply for Horizon Europe funding;

29. Amendment 37Rejected

    Paragraph 11

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    11. Removed: Highlights, in the face of new challenges in internal and external security, the importance of ensuring proper implementation Added: Calls for the withdrawal of the Asylum and Migration Pact, Removed: in full compliance with international human rights law, and of respecting the principles of solidarity and the fair sharing of responsibility; Added: and the introduction of real and efficient controls at the Schengen borders; stresses that effective Removed: management and protection of the EU’s external Removed: borders, both land and maritime, are essential for maintaining the freedoms Added: borders is essential to prevent illegal immigration and for the proper functioning of the Schengen Removed: area and Added: area, and is crucial for the security of the EU and its citizens; Removed: emphasises Added: calls for the establishment of hubs outside the Schengen borders, where asylum seekers would await a decision on whether to be granted asylum or sent back to their country of arrival; calls for support from EU funds for the construction of physical barriers at the Schengen borders; underlines the need to Removed: better protect people from trafficking and enhance support to strengthen cross-border cooperation between the Member States and the Union in combating criminal networks, particularly those Added: strengthen the fight against criminal networks involved in migrant smuggling and Removed: human trafficking, so as to reinforce law enforcement and the judicial response to these criminal networks, as well as to support Member States facing hybrid threats, in particular Added: trafficking and to address the EU’s vulnerability regarding the instrumentalisation of migrants as Removed: defined in the Crisis Regulation20; 20 Regulation (EU) 2024/1359 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1147, OJ L, 2024/1359, 22.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1359/oj. Added: part of hybrid attacks;

30. Amendment 38Rejected

    Paragraph 11 a (new)

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    Added: 11a. Underlines the failure of EU policies on preventing migration flows and human trafficking; reiterates its concerns about the use of funding allocated in the field of migration, asylum and border management and the role played by instruments such as the Internal Security Fund and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, which should guarantee the proper implementation of a rigorous asylum policy in accordance with international standards, while blocking illegal immigration and ensuring border controls and an adequate repatriation policy;

31. Amendment 39Rejected

    Paragraph 13 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: 13a. Considers that CAP subsidies, currently conditional on compliance with environmental criteria, do not encourage production, require complex administrative procedures for farmers and costly controls for Member States; Calls for an all-round simplification of the CAP in order to encourage agricultural production in Europe and ensure the continent’s food security;

32. Amendment 40Rejected

    Paragraph 15 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: 15a. Calls on the Member States to provide additional investments in nuclear energy;

33. Amendment 41Rejected

    Paragraph 18 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: 18a. Underlines that health is an exclusive competence of the Member States; calls for the EU not to provide funding to projects related to gender theories or gender equality;

34. Amendment 42Rejected

    Paragraph 21 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: 21a. Reaffirms the importance of freedom of expression and freedom of the press as the best guarantee against totalitarian trends; considers, furthermore, that the ‘Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values’ programme has become primarily a tool for ideological propaganda and that, in a context of budgetary difficulties for the Member States, its budget must be considerably reduced; considers that the ‘Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values’ programme should benefit only Member States and not candidate countries;

35. Amendment 43Rejected

    Paragraph 27

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    27. Observes that the need for the EU Removed: to maintain and augment its Added: Member States to maintain a strong presence on the global stage is increasingly crucial amid escalating global conflicts, geopolitical Removed: shifts and Added: shifts, foreign influence efforts worldwide, Removed: particularly considering developments with other major global providers of aid; stresses that in order to achieve this, the Union requires sufficient funding and resources to act, including to respond to major crises in its neighbourhood and throughout the world, in particular in the light of the sudden decrease in international funding; stresses the importance of the humanitarian aid programme and regrets that resources are not increasing in line with record-high needs; underscores the need to strengthen the EU’s role as a leading humanitarian actor while effectively addressing emerging crises, particularly in regions facing protracted conflict, displacement, food insecurity and natural disasters; emphasises that the Union also requires sufficient resources for long-term investments in building global partnerships, and points out the importance of the participation of non-EU countries in Union programmes, where appropriate; Added: and the evolving dynamics of the EU’s relationships with other global political powers; stresses that this context must not be used as a pretext for the Union to increase its resources, worsening the budgetary imbalances of Member States or the tax burden on their citizens;

36. Amendment 44Rejected

    Paragraph 28

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    … changed dramatically following Russia’s illegal, unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Removed: Ukraine and unpredictable changes in the policies of its main allies; Added: Ukraine; recalls the importance of enhancing citizens’ safety and Removed: of achieving efficiency in the area of defence and strategic autonomy, through a comprehensive approach to security that covers Added: that military and civilian capabilities, external relations and internal Removed: security; stresses the importance of the Internal Security Fund to ensure funding to tackle increased levels of serious organised crime with a cross-border dimension and cybercrime; recognises the pressure which increased defence spending represents for Member Sates’ national budgets; stresses the importance of Member States stepping up their efforts and increasing funding for their defence capabilities, in a consistent and complementary manner in line with the NATO guideline; Added: security are exclusive competences of the Member States;

37. Amendment 45Rejected

    Paragraph 31 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: 31a. Considers that pre-accession funds for countries applying to join the Union are an unnecessary expense given the current state of budgetary imbalances in Member States and the tax burden on Europeans;

38. Amendment 46Rejected

    Paragraph 32 a (new)

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    Added: 32a. Stresses that any funding under the NDICI should be made conditional on the effective implementation of repatriation agreements;

39. Amendment 47Rejected

    Paragraph 33 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: 33a. Recalls that every euro spent by the Union is taken from the fruits of fellow citizens’ labour;

40. Amendment 49Rejected

    Paragraph 2 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 2a. Recalls, that a bombshell report revealed the European Commission’s brazen misuse of taxpayer funds, funnelling billions into a shadowy network of NGOs and think tanks to promote its own political agenda and silence dissenting voices; condemns this enormous EU-NGO propaganda complex, which undermines democracy and constitutes a massive betrayal of European citizens;

41. Amendment 50Rejected

    Paragraph 3 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 3a. Highlights that the Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal declares that competitiveness is a horizontal issue and as such it should be mainstreamed in all policies; recalls that competitiveness is to be improved not through redistribution, but through the creation of an appropriate enabling framework; requests that the starting point should be simplification and deregulation on the EU level;

42. Amendment 51Rejected

    Paragraph 4 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 4a. Calls on the Commission to immediately withdraw its discriminative decision, which excludes Hungarian universities and researchers from the Horizon Europe programme;

43. Amendment 52Rejected

    Paragraph 11 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 11a. Highlights the failure of the Union’s policies to prevent migratory flows and human trafficking; stresses that effective management and protection of the EU’s external borders is essential for the proper functioning of the Schengen area, and is crucial for the security of the EU and its citizens; emphasises the need to direct European funds towards strengthening repatriation measures and securing the Union’s external borders to ensure a more effective and coherent management of migration challenges; demands the allocation of adequate funds for the construction and reinforcement of physical barriers at the Union’s external borders; underlines the need to strengthen the fight against criminal networks involved in migrant smuggling and trafficking and to address the EU’s vulnerability regarding the instrumentalisation of migrants as part of hybrid attacks; calls for the EU to establish return centres outside the Union and to allocate the necessary funds for their implementation;

44. Amendment 53Rejected

    Paragraph 11 b (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Nikola Bartůšek · PfE

    Added: 11b. Calls for the mobilisation of substantial Union funds and means to support Member States in reinforcing external borders protection capabilities and infrastructure such as walls, means of surveillance, including aerial surveillance, and equipment; proposes to cover the costs to build and maintain physical border barriers that are an essential part of a comprehensive migration policy, which should aim at preventing illegal entry, human smuggling and hybrid attacks, and detaining asylum seekers at the external borders;

45. Amendment 54Rejected

    Paragraph 11 c (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 11c. Regrets that the European Court of Justice imposed a fine on Hungary for not letting migrants enter the country before a final decision is made on their application; requests that the Commission use part of the EUR 2 billion due for border protection expenses for Hungary to finance the fine imposed on Hungary by the European Court of Justice;

46. Amendment 55Rejected

    Paragraph 11 d (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 11d. Demands that securing the EU’s external borders must be a top priority in the 2026 EU budget, with a focus on preventing illegal migration and stopping the activities of human trafficking networks; calls for stronger financial and operational support for front-line Member States’ border protection efforts, particularly those most affected by migratory pressures, while ensuring that border security remains the sovereign responsibility of national authorities;

47. Amendment 56Adopted

    Paragraph 11 e (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 11e. Expresses its deep concern over the fact that the Commission has funded or co-financed campaigns promoting the wearing of the veil, asserting, for example, that ‘freedom is in the hijab’; emphasises that the Union’s budget must no longer finance future campaigns that directly or indirectly promote the wearing of the veil;

48. Amendment 57Rejected

    Paragraph 12 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 12a. Underlines the failure of Union policies in preventing migration flows and human trafficking; reiterates its concerns about the role played by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), which should guarantee the proper implementation of a rigorous asylum policy in accordance with international standards, while blocking illegal migration and ensuring border controls and an adequate repatriation policy;

49. Amendment 58Rejected

    Paragraph 12 b (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet, Nikola Bartůšek · PfE

    Added: 12b. Calls for a reduction in the budget of the Fundamental Rights Agency, given the presence of fundamental rights officers in several agencies, such as Frontex; calls for the strengthening of the Frontex agency through an increase in appropriations to recruit permanent agents equipped with service weapons to assist Member States in defending the external borders, as well as for the acquisition of control equipment, including land, air and sea surveillance systems; notes that this increase should also enable the permanent corps to contribute to the digitalisation of border controls, in particular through the new ETIAS system for entry and exit, and should ensure access to relevant databases (Schengen Information System, Visa Information System, Eurodac, etc.), as well as their full interoperability;

50. Amendment 61Rejected

    Paragraph 15 b (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 15b. Regrets the fact that the economic policy pursued in Brussels condemns Europe to defeat in the face of global economic competitors; notes that while sustainability is important, the way it is promoted through the Green Deal by the Commission is ruining Europe; recalls that the result of this policy is that Europeans pay three times more for electricity and five times more for natural gas than their American competitors, which prevents European companies from maintaining their global competitiveness; calls for an entirely new energy policy, in which energy sanctions must be lifted and artificially closed energy transport routes reopened;

51. Amendment 62Rejected

    Paragraph 19 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 19a. Calls on the Commission to immediately withdraw its discriminative decision, which excludes Hungarian universities, students, teachers and researchers from the Erasmus+ mobility programmes;

52. Amendment 63Rejected

    Paragraph 21 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet, Nikola Bartůšek · PfE

    Added: 21a. Stresses and deplores the increasing alarmist rhetoric and the systematic fear-mongering propagated by the EU;

53. Amendment 64Adopted

    Paragraph 22

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet, Nikola Bartůšek · PfE

    22. Calls on the Commission to increase EU funding for protecting Removed: citizens, religious communities Added: citizens of all religions and public spaces against terrorist threats, combating radicalisation and terrorist content online, as well as countering hate speech and rising antisemitism, Added: anti-Christian hatred, anti-Muslim hatred and racism;

54. Amendment 65Adopted

    Paragraph 22 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 22a. Regrets the increasing number of hate crimes directed against Christians and other religious communities; recalls that Christians are the most persecuted religious community in the world; further urges the Commission to dedicate funding to prevent the targeting of religious communities, and in particular Christian and Jewish communities, which have been targeted in Europe in recent months; urges the Commission to prioritise the protection of citizens and all religious communities and to support the combating of terrorist threats, particularly focusing on radicalisation and terrorist content online;

55. Amendment 66Rejected

    Paragraph 24 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch · PfE

    Added: 24a. Demands that the EU stop funding illegal migration, financing progressive left-wing media attacking Member States’ sovereignty and promoting the spread of woke propaganda or war propaganda from the EU budget; requests in this regard that both direct and indirect support channelled through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) be ended and no money should be spent on promoting the Commission’s false political agenda;

56. Amendment 67Rejected

    Paragraph 26 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 26a. Recalls that the former Commissioner responsible for negotiating the anti-corruption framework and the rule of law with Member States during the past five years is now under criminal investigation for money laundering and other corruption-related crimes; condemns the use of rule of law conditionality for politically motivated ideological attacks on Member States; highlights that in these attacks the Commission used NGOs and leftist media outlets and financed them from EU funds; demands therefore that these attacks against national sovereignty misusing the rule of law conditionality be stopped;

57. Amendment 68Rejected

    Paragraph 26 b (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Nikola Bartůšek · PfE

    Added: 26b. Demands that the politically motivated blocking of Hungarian cohesion and Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) funds be lifted immediately and those funds must be paid out fully to Hungary;

58. Amendment 69Rejected

    Paragraph 26 c (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet +1 · PfE

    Added: 26c. Rejects the continuation of the current ‘rule of law conditionality’ system and, moreover, the further strengthening and extending of conditionalities; recalls that any initiative on strengthening or extending conditionalities goes against simplification and competitiveness by making it more difficult and time-consuming for Member States to receive funding;

59. Amendment 70Rejected

    Paragraph 26 d (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 26d. Stresses the need to eliminate from the Union budget a large number of harmful or incompetently incurred expenditures that do not align with its mandate, to combat fraud more effectively and to establish a European DOGE in order to create budgetary margins for non-ideological spending that is genuinely useful to citizens;

60. Amendment 71Rejected

    Paragraph 28 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 28a. Is convinced that there is no military solution to the conflict and that peace is the only viable and lasting response; strongly supports the efforts undertaken by the United States, Ukraine and Russia to pursue diplomatic avenues towards reaching a lasting peace agreement;

61. Amendment 72Rejected

    Paragraph 28 b (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 28b. Underlines the fact that Ukraine received unprecedented support of EUR 134 billion from the EU and Member States up to 2024; demands that the EU’s financial interests and the protection of these funds be ensured and guaranteed in the same way as within the European Union;

62. Amendment 73Rejected

    Paragraph 34 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 34a. Recalls that there is no need to introduce new own resources, since the current own resources system is completely capable of delivering the amounts needed;

63. Amendment 74Rejected

    Paragraph 36 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 36a. Stresses that the overseas countries and territories (OCTs) and the Union’s outermost regions require specific support owing to their remoteness; draws particular attention to the difficulties of accessing drinking water and ensuring sound sanitation, as well as to the poor condition of water distribution networks, which are common issues in both the OCTs and outermost regions; notes with concern that while these issues are priorities in the Union’s external humanitarian action, the OCTs and outermost regions of the Union do not appear to receive the support they deserve with regard to these serious problems;

64. Amendment 75Rejected

    Paragraph 41 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 41a. Urges the immediate cessation of all funding for organisations that directly or indirectly support groups designated terrorist by the Union;

65. Amendment 76Rejected

    Paragraph 42 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 42a. Demands that the EU stop funding media that attack Member States’ sovereignty and that promote the spread of woke or war propaganda; requests, in this regard, that both direct and indirect support channelled through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) be ceased and no money spent on promoting the Commission’s false political agenda;

66. Amendment 79Rejected

    Paragraph 18

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    … of the gender aspect of health, including sexual and reproductive health and Added: rights and access to services; is highly concerned by the current mental health crisis …

67. Amendment 80Rejected

    Paragraph 21 b (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira, Rima Hassan · The Left

    Added: 21b. Calls on the Commission to increase and sustain funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, recognising the Agency’s crucial role in delivering essential services to an increasingly vulnerable population in the Middle East and ensuring the uninterrupted provision of humanitarian assistance;

68. Amendment 81Rejected

    Paragraph 17 a (new)

    Tabled by Rima Hassan · The Left

    Added: 17a. Calls on the Commission to increase the funding for the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights in order to support the work of the International Criminal Court, in particular in the field of witness protection and support for victims, in light of recent US attacks threatening the survival of this international body and its victims compensation fund;

69. Amendment 82Rejected

    Paragraph 22 a (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Pasquale Tridico, Younous Omarjee · The Left

    Added: 22a. Recalls that more than 21 % of Europeans are at risk of poverty or social exclusion; recalls that the wealth of the top 0.5 % wealthiest individuals has increased by 35 % over the last 10 years; underlines the fact that the EU Tax Observatory published new figures on 14 March 2025 showing that implementing a minimum tax of 3 % at the EU level on the wealth of people owning more than EUR 100 million could raise EUR 121 billion for the EU’s own resources; calls, therefore, on the Commission to make a new proposal to introduce this wealth tax as an EU own resource;

70. Amendment 83Rejected

    Paragraph 22 b (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Younous Omarjee · The Left

    Added: 22b. Underlines that both the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank acknowledge that more than half of current price inflation is driven by companies increasing their profit margins; calls on the Commission, therefore, to make a new proposal for an own resource based on a permanent taxation of the windfall profits of multinational enterprises in all sectors, especially the agri-food sector;

71. Amendment 86Rejected

    Paragraph 22 e (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Younous Omarjee · The Left

    Added: 22e. Underlines that the Commission needs to take further timely actions to increase the EU’s own resources and to fight tax avoidance; recalls that, according to the EU Tax Observatory, multinational corporations (MNEs) booked USD 1 trillion in profits in tax havens in 2022 – half of which were in tax havens in the EU; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to collect the tax deficit of MNEs – that is the difference between what a corporation pays in taxes globally and what that corporation would have to pay if all its profits were subject to a minimum tax rate of 25 % in each of the countries where it operates;

72. Amendment 90Rejected

    Paragraph 25 b (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Marc Botenga · The Left

    Added: 25b. Proposes cutting the basic monthly salaries of all Commissioners by 50 %;

73. Amendment 91Rejected

    Paragraph 25 c (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Marc Botenga · The Left

    Added: 25c. Proposes cutting the basic monthly salary of the President of the European Council by 50 %;

74. Amendment 92Rejected

    Paragraph 25 d (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Marc Botenga · The Left

    Added: 25d. Proposes suppressing the transition allowances of former MEPs, Commissioners and the President of the European Council; asks for them to be able to apply for unemployment benefits in the same way as regular workers;