Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025

Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Marc Botenga, Irene Montero, Isabel Serra Sánchez, Danilo Della Valle, Estrella Galán

49. Removed: Welcomes Added: Deplores the recent substantial defence expenditure increases; Removed: notes the focus on national defence spending, including in the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030, which leaves critical issues around fragmentation, potential budgetary and operational synergies, and interoperability unresolved; notes that making joint procurement the rule of the EDTIB could save billions of euro in defence spending; stresses the need to ensure that EU funds are channelled into collaborative projects, with clear European added value, that reduce our dependencies on non-EU countries; is of the view that, without structural European reform and collaboration, increased national spending may lead to continued duplication of efforts and inefficiencies; emphasises that the development of an internal market for defence also requires a lasting and coordinated financial framework that enables long-term investment planning; calls for the pooling of parts of national defence budgets at EU level, in order to generate economies of scale and invest in capabilities used for the collective defence of the EU; stresses that defence investment must be supported by coordinated multiannual planning between Added: stresses that the use of EU programmes and funds, such as EDF, EDIP, ReARM and SAFE, to amplify the build-up of military industrial sectors violates Article 41(2) TEU, which prohibits spending from the EU budget for military purposes; opposes the militarisation of the EU and the Removed: Member States, in line with the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence and NATO Capability Development Plan documents; calls on the Commission to further explore targeted EU grant funding options to complement funding from SAFE loans, EU programmes and national budgets; Added: establishment of a military union;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE782.001v01-00