Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024

Tabled by Marc Botenga, Manon Aubry, Estrella Galán, Anthony Smith, Emma Fourreau, Rima Hassan, Marina Mesure, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Giorgos Georgiou

Added: 9d. Expresses its strong opposition to the European Council’s support for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s ReArm Europe plan and the militarisation of the EU, in particular the use of cohesion funds for military spending; reiterates that European cohesion funds, and derogations from the Stability and Growth Pact, must be used to facilitate investment in schools, healthcare, housing, innovation and research, digitalisation, and the fight against climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, together with job creation; denounces the double standards of this neoliberal Europe, which applies flexibility to fiscal rules on military spending while continuing to impose austerity and neoliberal criteria on social and economic policies; strongly deplores the decision to use Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to approve the rearmament plan without the vote, democratic control and scrutiny of Parliament;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE769.720v01-00