Guidelines for the 2027 Budget - Section III

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 1Adopted

   Paragraph 26

   Tabled by Karlo Ressler · PPE

   … human rights law; stresses that adequate funding remains critical to addressing evolving Removed: challenges Added: challenges, including illegal migration, migrant smuggling and trafficking, and the weaponisation and instrumentalisation of migrants, and to ensuring effective relocation, safe and dignified reception, and effective and …

2. Amendment 3Adopted

   Paragraph 34

   Tabled by Karlo Ressler · PPE

   … fuel costs, changes in the global food market and adverse climate events; Added: calls on the Commission to reduce bureaucracy; emphasises the need to help new and young farmers Added: in order to promote generational renewal, and for targeted attention to be devoted to small-scale agricultural holdings and …

3. Amendment 4Adopted

   Paragraph 40

   Tabled by Karlo Ressler · PPE

   … the need for adequate financial support for Member States with external EU Added: borders that takes into account the particular geopolitical, security and operational challenges faced by individual Member States along the EU’s external borders, especially those that share a land border with Ukraine, the Russian … of the EU, including necessary physical measures where relevant and duly justified; Added: stresses that the involvement of non-EU entities in actions funded by the EU budget, especially in areas such as critical technologies, defence and space, should be subject to certain conditions, to ensure that the vital defence and security interests of all Member States are protected; notes that most of Europe’s defence and security arrangements, in particular nuclear …

4. Amendment 5Adopted

   Paragraph 40

   Tabled by Karlo Ressler · PPE

   … needs and secure the external borders of the EU, including necessary physical Removed: measures Added: border infrastructure where relevant and duly justified; notes that most of Europe’s defence and …

5. Amendment 6Adopted

   Paragraph 60

   Tabled by Karlo Ressler · PPE

   … indirectly diverted to entities that promote, facilitate or compensate money-laundering or terrorist Removed: activities; Added: activities or to organisations that maintain links with extremist or Islamist networks, and to suspend funding immediately where such risks are identified;

6. Amendment 8Rejected

   Paragraph 4 a (new)

   Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Jana Nagyová · PfE

   Added: 4a. Recalls that the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) instrument, presented as an exceptional recovery plan following the COVID-19 crisis and financed through the issuance of common bonds, was designed in a rushed manner by the Commission, without thorough impact assessment; recalls, in line with the European Court of Auditors’ annual report for the 2024 financial year, that the Commission has significantly increased its bond issuances over the past five years, having turned to capital markets to finance large-scale programmes such as SURE and NextGenerationEU; underlines that, according to the same report, ‘by 2027, outstanding EU borrowing could exceed EUR 900 billion, nearly 10 times the 2020 level prior to NGEU’; denounces once again the budgetary drift represented by this instrument, the financing of which will weigh heavily on the EU budget until 2058 owing to colossal interest charges that will durably reduce the EU’s financial room for manoeuvre over the next 30 years;

7. Amendment 9Rejected

   Paragraph 7 a (new)

   Tabled by Julien Sanchez · PfE

   Added: 7a. Stresses that the EU’s outermost regions (and among others the overseas countries and territories) require specific support owing to their remoteness; draws particular attention to the difficulties in access to drinking water and sanitation, to the functioning of water infrastructure, and to the need to create new appropriate infrastructure; notes in particular that the poor condition of water distribution networks is a common problem for the outermost regions; observes with concern that, while such problems are among the priorities of the EU’s external humanitarian action, the outermost regions do not appear to receive the support they deserve in addressing these serious issues;

8. Amendment 10Rejected

   Paragraph 10 a (new)

   Tabled by Auke Zijlstra, Jana Nagyová, Julien Sanchez · PfE

   Added: 10a. Strongly calls for better policies to tackle the soaring energy prices in Europe, which are hindering companies in their economic development;

9. Amendment 13Rejected

   Paragraph 24 a (new)

   Tabled by Auke Zijlstra, Julien Sanchez · PfE

   Added: 24a. Rejects the EU taking over financing from other international entities, such as the US Agency for International Development (USAID); stresses, the importance of genuine independent investigative journalism free from EU subsidies, as independence is the true mark of a vivid democracy, transparency and social justice; points to the fact that the EU still has not come up with a clear definition of ‘misinformation’ and ‘fake news’;

10. Amendment 14Rejected

    Paragraph 24 b (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Added: 24b. Expresses deep concern about the lack of transparency of NGOs, especially regarding their funding; recalls the findings of European Court of Auditors (ECA) special report 35/2018, which highlighted the lack of transparency regarding the implementation of EU funds by NGOs; emphasises the consequent risk of money laundering and terrorist financing through non-profit organisations; recalls ECA special report 11/2025, which showed that, of more than 4 400 NGOs, 30 received more than 40 % of total funding (i.e. EUR 3.3 billion) during the period 2014-2023, and linked this to the intravenous dependence of certain NGOs on EU funding, with all that this ultimately implies for their activities and orientations;

11. Amendment 16Rejected

    Paragraph 26 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra · PfE

    Added: 26a. Stresses that EU migration and asylum policy must be underpinned by strong action against illegal migration and that adequate funding to combat illegal migration and violations of the EU’s external borders remains essential to addressing evolving challenges; calls for EU funds to be allocated as a priority to strengthening return and repatriation measures and securing the EU’s external borders, including by constructing and reinforcing physical barriers, in order to ensure more effective, coherent and consistent management of migration-related challenges;

12. Amendment 17Rejected

    Paragraph 27 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Added: 27a. Recalls that Hungary has implemented an effective system to protect its borders against illegal migration; deplores the fact that this effort has been punished by the politically biased Commission and Court of Justice of the European Union;

13. Amendment 22Rejected

    Paragraph 29 b (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Added: 29b. Condemns in the strongest terms the instrumentalisation of rule-of-law conditionality for politically motivated ideological assaults on Member States; emphasises that in these assaults, the Commission has demonstrably utilised and financed NGOs and left-leaning media outlets with EU funds; consequently, demands an immediate cessation of these attacks against national sovereignty, which are perpetrated through the misuse of rule-of-law conditionality;

14. Amendment 23Rejected

    Paragraph 30 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Added: 30a. Calls for the immediate suspension of the Green Deal, which contributes to undermining the competitiveness of EU-based enterprises, devastating agriculture, and weighing down the European economy in the context of globalisation;

15. Amendment 25Rejected

    Paragraph 34 b (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Added: 34b. Stresses that the POSEI programme constitutes an essential pillar of the EU’s support for the outermost regions and recalls that it was designed to address the permanent structural constraints faced by these regions, such as remoteness, insularity and economic dependence, in accordance with Article 349 TFEU; underlines that the outermost regions require dedicated, stable and predictable instruments in order to ensure food security and the viability of local agricultural value chains; calls on the Commission to provide the POSEI programme with sufficient financial resources;

16. Amendment 27Rejected

    Paragraph 37 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Added: 37a. Calls on the European Court of Auditors to carry out an in-depth audit of the funds allocated to the LIFE programme, in order to assess their effectiveness, their cost-benefit ratio and their genuine added value for the EU’s environmental objectives;

17. Amendment 33Rejected

    Paragraph 56 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Jana Nagyová · PfE

    Added: 56a. Underlines that the social and budgetary situation has become unsustainable for businesses and households in many Member States; rejects, therefore, the introduction of any new own resources for the EU budget and instead advocates budgetary discipline and prudent management of the EU budget through improved control over expenditure, taking into account the significant error rates identified by the European Court of Auditors in its annual reports on EU expenditure; notes that this should be achieved by combating fraud and manifest under-declaration linked to existing revenue sources, which constitute the real budgetary areas for action, and by eliminating non-essential expenditure;

18. Amendment 34Rejected

    Paragraph 57 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra · PfE

    Added: 57a. Stresses the need for a structural and objective reassessment of the EU’s decentralised agencies, noting that their proliferation has led to administrative fragmentation, overlapping competences and disproportionate operating costs; calls for timely, independent and legally required evaluations of EU agencies and bodies to assess whether they still operate in line with their mandates and with the principles of sound financial management, and advocates for the dissolution of agencies whose operational and budgetary relevance is insufficient, with a view to reallocating the corresponding resources so that they can be used more efficiently;

19. Amendment 41Rejected

    Paragraph 30 a (new)

    Tabled by Nicolas Bay, Beata Szydło · ECR

    Added: 30a. Stresses that the financing of the EU budget should remain primarily based on contributions from Member States, in line with the principles of subsidiarity, fiscal responsibility and national budgetary sovereignty; expresses concern that the introduction of new own resources will increase the overall fiscal burden on citizens and businesses across the EU;

20. Amendment 44Rejected

    Paragraph 26 a (new)

    Tabled by Beata Szydło, Dick Erixon · ECR

    Added: 26a. Emphasises that the establishment of return hubs outside the EU would significantly increase the rate of returns of non-EU nationals from the EU;

21. Amendment 45Rejected

    Paragraph 1 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 1a. Takes the view that the European Union budget should promote public investment by supporting productive and strategic sectors, public services, the creation of jobs with rights, in order to achieve full employment, eradicate poverty, social exclusion and inequalities, protect the environment and biodiversity, fully use of the potential of individual countries and regions, support the reception and integration of refugees and migrants, together with the pursuit of external relations rooted in solidarity, cooperation, mutual respect and peace;

22. Amendment 46Rejected

    Paragraph 1 b (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 1b. 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;

23. Amendment 47Rejected

    Paragraph 10 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 10a. Considers that a strategy to combat poverty with a view to its eradication depends, among other things, on adequate funding, requiring mobilisation of the EU budget; calls for the creation, within the European Social Fund+, of a specific funding line for poverty eradication in the 2027 budget; considers that this specific funding for poverty eradication is without prejudice to the mobilisation of resources from other funds or programmes aimed at objectives directly or indirectly related to poverty, in particular in the areas of housing, child and youth protection, migration, and combating inequalities and discrimination;

24. Amendment 51Rejected

    Paragraph 43 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 43a. Calls for the budget to include the target of allocating at least 0.7 % of EU Member States’ gross domestic product to official development assistance, in line with the objective set out in UN General Assembly Resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970 and contained in paragraph 43 of the Declaration on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

25. Amendment 52Rejected

    Paragraph 48 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 48a. Calls on the Commission to increase ongoing funding for UNRWA, 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;

26. Amendment 53Rejected

    Paragraph 50 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 50a. Calls for the EU-Israel Association Agreement to be suspended, bearing in mind the prerogatives the agreement contains, following Israel’s brutal aggression and genocide against the Palestinian people; calls for the cancellation of Horizon 2020 funds that could be used in military or dual-use projects;

27. Amendment 54Rejected

    Paragraph 50 b (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    Added: 50b. Calls for the 2027 budget to define the principle of economic, social and territorial cohesion as a horizontal principle, requiring the assessment of the impact on cohesion between and within Member States of all expenditure, policies or actions, with the aim of promoting effective convergence in economic and social progress;

28. Amendment 55Rejected

    Paragraph 7

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    … as an investment instrument, in fostering sustainability and upward social and territorial Removed: convergence as a key pillar of EU competitiveness; Added: convergence; reiterates that the cohesion policy’s added value depends on its effective, inclusive … economic, social and geopolitical context are constraining cohesion policy funds; calls for Removed: adequate Added: reinforced funding to address these issues, ensuring the sustainability and improvement of people’s quality of life across all regions, boosting the EU’s and the regions’ Removed: competitiveness Added: development and innovation, and addressing demographic challenges, thereby contributing to the Removed: EU’s long-term growth, resilience and well-being;

29. Amendment 57Rejected

    Paragraph 16

    Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

    … necessary for the 2027 budget to provide all possible support, including through Removed: the Added: a strengthened and reinforced European Social Fund Plus and related EU instruments, to Member States in …

30. Amendment 58Rejected

    Paragraph 1

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Alexander Jungbluth · ESN

    … investment-oriented EU budget remains central to the implementation of the EU’s policies; Added: recalls that the EU budget should respect the principles of subsidiarity, proportionality and sound financial management;

31. Amendment 60Rejected

    Paragraph 4 a (new)

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Alexander Jungbluth · ESN

    Added: 4a. Recalls that the EU budget must remain financed primarily by national contributions; rejects the introduction of new own resources, any permanent joint borrowing or common debt liabilities;

32. Amendment 61Rejected

    Paragraph 26

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Alexander Jungbluth · ESN

    26. Stresses that EU migration Removed: and asylum policy must be underpinned by solidarity and shared responsibility in full compliance with the obligations of national, EU and international law, ensuring proper implementation of the Asylum and Migration Pact, in full compliance with international human rights law; stresses that adequate funding remains critical to addressing evolving challenges and to ensuring effective relocation, safe and dignified reception, and effective and sustainable inclusion and integration; considers that the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and the Border Management and Visa Instrument (BMVI) play a central role in this context and must receive continuous funding; underlines that adequate funding should be allocated to Member States with an external border; emphasises the need to better protect people by preventing trafficking and to enhance support to strengthen cross-border cooperation between the Member States, as well as cooperation between the Member States and the EU, in combating terrorism, organised crime, drug trafficking and criminal networks, particularly those involved in migrant smuggling and human trafficking, so as to reinforce law enforcement and the judicial response to these criminal networks, and to support Member States facing hybrid threats, in particular the instrumentalisation of migrants at the EU’s borders, as defined in the Crisis Regulation25 ; 25 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: spending should prioritise external border protection, return policies and cooperation with non-EU countries; demands the suspension of the Pact on Migration and Asylum;

33. Amendment 63Rejected

    Paragraph 46

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Alexander Jungbluth · ESN

    46. Removed: Firmly reiterates its unconditional and full support for Ukraine in its fight for freedom and democracy against Russian aggression, as the war on its soil enters its fourth year; condemns the devastating human and economic toll of Russia’s war; underlines the ongoing and pressing need for intensified funding efforts to address urgent humanitarian needs, repair critical infrastructure and enhance the capacity of the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes to deliver essential supplies; welcomes the agreement by Member States to provide support to Ukraine through a Added: Acknowledges the humanitarian consequences of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine; expresses, however, serious concern regarding the EUR 90 billion Removed: loan under enhanced cooperation over two years through joint borrowing and to immobilise indefinitely Russian assets of up to EUR 210 billion, which have been frozen in the EU since the start of the war; stresses the importance of ensuring accountability for international crimes; insists that the ‘Ukraine Support Loan Instrument’ special instrument be used; Added: Ukraine Support Loan, financed through joint EU borrowing on capital markets and guaranteed by the headroom of the EU’s long-term budget; notes that the repayment of the loan is conditional upon Ukraine receiving war reparations from Russia, a scenario for which no enforceable legal mechanism, international agreement or realistic prospect currently exists; considers, therefore, that this instrument constitutes a de facto fiscal liability for EU taxpayers rather than a genuine loan, and that its designation as a ‘loan’ obscures the true nature of the financial commitment; notes with concern that the estimated debt servicing costs alone amount to approximately EUR 1 billion in 2027 and EUR 3 billion annually from 2028 onwards, to be covered by the EU’s annual budgets; notes, furthermore, that the immobilisation of approximately EUR 210 billion in Russian sovereign assets provides no legally certain repayment guarantee, as any use of such assets remains subject to unresolved questions of international law; calls on the Commission to present a transparent scenario analysis of the full fiscal exposure borne by the EU budget, including in the event that no reparations are received; stresses that the budgetary consequences of such commitments must not lead to a reduction in funding for programmes directly benefiting EU citizens; insists that any further financial commitments to non-EU countries be subject to the prior consent of the budgetary authority and accompanied by a rigorous cost-effectiveness analysis;

34. Amendment 64Rejected

    Paragraph 56

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Alexander Jungbluth · ESN

    56. Stresses that Removed: sufficient own resources are essential not only to enable the repayment of NGEU borrowing, but also to ensure that the EU is equipped to cover increasing investment needs, as highlighted by the Draghi and Letta reports and the Niinistö report30 , and to respond to unforeseen developments; reiterates the need for revenues that ensure budgetary and fiscal stability while being able to respond to the Union’s needs and priorities; is highly concerned by the complete lack of progress on the introduction of new own resources in the Council; Added: rising interest rates on NGEU loans are causing increasing budgetary instability; regrets that legislators did not foresee the long-term effects of taking out the NGEU loan; calls, in view of the difficult economic situation and in order to restore competitiveness, for work on new own resources, which are in fact further tax burdens on citizens and European businesses, to be halted; calls on the Council and the Member States to Removed: proceed with the introduction of new own resources as a matter of urgency and without further delay; 30 Niinistö, S., ‘Safer Together – Strengthening Europe’s Civilian and Military Preparedness and Readiness’, 2024. Added: carry out, without further delay, an audit of EU expenditure in order to identify possible savings;

35. Amendment 65Rejected

    Paragraph 56 a (new)

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Alexander Jungbluth · ESN

    Added: 56a. Believes that the EU emissions trading system (ETS) has contributed to the collapse of European industry by imposing disproportionately high production costs on European companies; calls for the immediate suspension of the EU ETS and calls for work to begin on the complete withdrawal of the EU ETS regulations;

36. Amendment 66Rejected

    Paragraph 63

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Alexander Jungbluth · ESN

    … and liquidity management costs, financial instrument reflows, decommitments, or any other relevant Removed: estimates, as well as the financial impacts Added: estimates; demands, furthermore, that the Commission present a separate, detailed report on the full budgetary impact of the Ukraine Removed: loan support; Added: Support Loan instrument, including annual debt servicing costs borne by the EU budget, the erosion of available headroom resulting from the guarantee, the risk profile of the loan portfolio, a realistic assessment of the likelihood and timeline of repayment given the absence of any enforceable reparations mechanism, and the contingent liabilities falling on the EU budget in the event of a partial or total default;

37. Amendment 67Rejected

    Paragraph 10 a (new)

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza, Carlo Fidanza, Nicola Procaccini · ECR

    Added: 10a. Calls on the Commission, in the application of the principles of transparency, sound financial management and loyal cooperation between institutions, to promote a further revision of the Financial Regulation to ensure that funding awarded by the Commission or its executive agencies is not used for lobbying or advocacy activities targeted at EU institutions’ representatives with the aim of influencing decision-making processes; calls on the Commission to systematically include in its framework partnership and grant agreements an explicit prohibition clause on the direct or indirect use of EU funds for such purposes, providing for the recovery of amounts and the exclusion of beneficiaries from future funding in the event of breaches;

38. Amendment 70Rejected

    Paragraph 26

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza, Nicola Procaccini, Alessandro Ciriani +1 · ECR

    … Asylum and Migration Pact, in full compliance with international human rights law; Added: underlines that the effective implementation of the recently revised legislative framework on migration and asylum, including updated rules on safe third countries, should contribute to a more efficient and credible system; emphasises the need to strengthen the external dimension of migration policy, including through enhanced partnerships with third countries, aimed at preventing irregular migration, fighting smuggling networks and ensuring the effective and sustainable return and readmission of individuals who do not have the right to stay in the EU; stresses that adequate funding remains critical to addressing evolving challenges and to …

39. Amendment 71Rejected

    Paragraph 27

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza, Nicola Procaccini, Alessandro Ciriani +1 · ECR

    … address evolving migration and security challenges, including those of a hybrid nature; Added: stresses that credible migration management requires a significant improvement in return rates; calls for adequate management in the implementation of the forthcoming EU framework for returns, including through strengthened cooperation with third countries and the exploration of innovative solutions; reaffirms the vital importance of the implementation of the Asylum and Migration …

40. Amendment 74Rejected

    Paragraph 30

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza, Nicola Procaccini · ECR

    30. Underlines the key role of the EU budget in delivering Removed: on the European Green Deal, achieving a successful digital transition, contributing to the objectives of the Competitiveness Compass … regards simplification and avoiding unnecessary administrative burdens; reiterates the Union’s commitment to Removed: meet the 2050 climate neutrality target by supporting Added: support investments in areas such as energy efficiency, renewable energy and resilient electricity grids, cross-border mobility, the circular economy, biodiversity protection, digital innovation and AI, Removed: and smart energy infrastructure; Added: smart energy infrastructure and the availability of critical raw materials; calls for adequate upskilling and reskilling programmes for workers, especially in regions …

41. Amendment 76Rejected

    Paragraph 56

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza · ECR

    Removed: 56. Stresses that sufficient own resources are essential not only to enable the repayment of NGEU borrowing, but also to ensure that the EU is equipped to cover increasing investment needs, as highlighted by the Draghi and Letta reports and the Niinistö report30 , and to respond to unforeseen developments; reiterates the need for revenues that ensure budgetary and fiscal stability while being able to respond to the Union’s needs and priorities; is highly concerned by the complete lack of progress on the introduction of new own resources in the Council; calls on the Council and the Member States to proceed with the introduction of new own resources as a matter of urgency and without further delay; 30 Niinistö, S., ‘Safer Together – Strengthening Europe’s Civilian and Military Preparedness and Readiness’, 2024. Added: deleted

42. Amendment 77Rejected

    Paragraph 58

    Tabled by Ruggero Razza · ECR

    Removed: 58. Stresses the need for continuous efforts towards the achievement of the climate and biodiversity mainstreaming targets laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 in the Union budget 2027 and the European Recovery Instrument expenditures; recalls that the do-no-significant-harm principle is mainstreamed in all Union activities through the budgetary implementation as agreed in the Interinstitutional Agreement; Added: deleted