Draft amending budget no 1 to the general budget 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 1Rejected

   Paragraph 2

   Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek, Jana Nagyová +1 · PfE

   2. Removed: Welcomes Added: Notes the fact that the 2024 surplus is driven primarily by an increase … 4 (Financial revenue, default interest and fines), while the surplus of expenditure Removed: remains very modest at Added: amounts to EUR 273 million;

2. Amendment 2Rejected

   Paragraph 3

   Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek, Jana Nagyová +1 · PfE

   3. Removed: Regrets Added: Welcomes the fact that the budgeting of the surplus reduces the total GNI-based own resources …

3. Amendment 3Rejected

   Paragraph 7 a (new)

   Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek, Jana Nagyová +1 · PfE

   Added: 7 a. Opposes the adoption of new own resources, as matters stand, given that the situation regarding EU citizens’ purchasing power and European businesses is already critical; calls instead for better management of Union funds, particularly in relation to expenditure which goes beyond the Union’s powers, and for unnecessary expenditure to be done away with, and for genuine budgetary control so as to create significant fiscal headroom, particularly by acting on the many recommendations that have been rightly made by the European Court of Auditors;

4. Amendment 4Rejected

   Paragraph 8 a (new)

   Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek, Jana Nagyová +1 · PfE

   Added: 8 a. Stresses that the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) recovery instrument was conceived in haste, that it leaves the EU budget highly exposed until 2058; considers therefore that the Commission must take account of the observations made by the European Court of Auditors in order to make a proper assessment of the genuine effectiveness of investments made and to detect and prevent errors;

5. Amendment 5Rejected

   Recital D a (new)

   Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

   Added: D a. whereas, given the EU’s level of indebtedness, the dramatic rise in interest costs, the absence of a repayment plan and the already heavy tax burden on European taxpayers, the only reasonable option is to allocate the entire budget surplus to the repayment of the NGEU loan;

6. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph 7 a (new)

   Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

   Added: 7 a. Rejects the creation of any new own resource that would burden European taxpayers; emphasises the need to drastically reduce EU spending to alleviate the tax burden and avoid passing on an even heavier burden to future generations due to the debt created by the “Next Generation EU” loan;