General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 - all sections

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 11Rejected

   Paragraph 13 – point a c (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: (ac) Budget line 07 XX – Public, social and affordable housing: EUR 5 000 000 000.

2. Amendment 12Rejected

   Paragraph 13 a (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 13a. Calls for the principle of economic, social and territorial cohesion to be defined as a horizontal principle in the EU's 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;

3. Amendment 13Rejected

   Paragraph 13 b (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira, Estrella Galán · The Left

   Added: 13b. Calls for the creation within the ESF+ of a specific budget line for the eradication of poverty and social exclusion, with EUR 7 142 857 143 in commitment appropriations, aimed at supporting measures to eradicate poverty and social exclusion by 2035, reduce inequalities, promote decent living conditions and strengthen access to quality public services and adequate social protection; emphasises that this funding should not replace or reduce the specific funding dedicated to the European Child Guarantee;

4. Amendment 14Rejected

   Paragraph 13 c (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 13c. Calls for the creation of additional and targeted EU funding to expand and requalify public housing, combat speculation and defend the right of all to decent and affordable housing; calls, in this regard, for the creation of a specific budget line for public, social and affordable housing with EUR 5 000 000 000 in commitment and payment appropriations, dedicated to supporting the development, construction, rehabilitation and expansion of public housing stocks;

5. Amendment 15Rejected

   Paragraph 13 d (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 13d. Calls for more funding for the programmes of options specifically relating to remoteness and insularity (POSEI), the reestablishment of a POSEI scheme for fisheries and the creation of a new POSEI scheme for transport, in order to protect and enhance the outermost regions by means of financial resources, programmes and measures, whether permanent or exceptional, supporting insular regional economies; calls, in this context, for the creation of the POSEI Transport budget line with EUR 1 250 000 000 in commitment appropriations and EUR 700 000 000 in payment appropriations;

6. Amendment 16Rejected

   Paragraph 22 – point b – point i

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Removed: i. budget line 11 02 01 – Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy by EUR XXX Added: deleted

7. Amendment 21Rejected

   Paragraph 25 a (new)

   Tabled by João Oliveira · The Left

   Added: 25a. Calls for the 2027 budget to include the target of allocating at least 0.7 % of the EU Member States’ gross domestic product to official development assistance, in line with the target set 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’;

8. Amendment 22Rejected

   Paragraph -1

   Tabled by João Oliveira, Giorgos Georgiou, Marc Botenga +1 · The Left

   Added: – 1. Expresses deep concern at the rising cost of living, in particular the increase in fuel and energy prices and the high prices of essential goods, as well as their significant impact on the lives of workers, pensioners and their families, in a context where the profits of large corporate groups continue to increase and, in several sectors, are reaching exceptionally high levels; considers that the European Union budget for 2027 should contribute to addressing this situation by protecting living standards and purchasing power and supporting measures aimed at curbing prices and mitigating the social and economic consequences of the rising cost of living;

9. Amendment 24Rejected

   Paragraph 1 b (new)

   Tabled by Marc Botenga, Per Clausen, Manon Aubry +3 · The Left

   Added: 1b. Underlines that the salaries and benefits of Commissioners, Members and the President of the Council are very generous; is concerned that such disproportionately high salaries completely alienate those people from everyday lives, needs and struggles; considers, therefore, that allocating more reasonable salaries and benefits would increase the chance of the 2027 budget proposals being more in line with the needs of working people;

10. Amendment 25Rejected

    Paragraph 1 c (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Rima Hassan, Arash Saeidi +3 · The Left

    Added: 1c. Stresses that the Commission should publish and update regularly an aggregate and disaggregated overview of all European funds disbursed, as well as of grants, loans and guarantees effectively offered to companies;

11. Amendment 27Rejected

    Paragraph 9 a (new)

    Tabled by Hanna Gedin, Jonas Sjöstedt, Rima Hassan +4 · The Left

    Added: 9a. Calls on the Commission to ensure and secure increased funding to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA);

12. Amendment 29Rejected

    Paragraph 11 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira, Rima Hassan · The Left

    Added: 11a. Calls for the Union budget to provide for increased allocations for public investment in transport infrastructure and the promotion of public transport and sustainable mobility; calls for consideration to be given to 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 railways; rejects the use of the Union budget to strengthen public-private partnerships, promote privatisation and liberalise the transport sector; insists that appropriations under the Connecting Europe Facility for civilian transport infrastructure not cover Military Mobility programmes or projects;

13. Amendment 30Rejected

    Paragraph 12 a (new)

    Tabled by Pasquale Tridico · The Left

    Added: 12a. Calls for EUR 5 million in commitment appropriations for a pilot workers’ factory rescue and cooperative green-conversion facility, accessible through an open call to workers’ cooperatives and cooperative-led consortia seeking to take over enterprises threatened with closure or relocation; calls for grants covering takeover preparation and initial green-conversion investment, conditional on viable business plans, democratic worker control, preservation of quality employment and measurable environmental objectives, in cooperation with public development banks and local and regional authorities;

14. Amendment 31Rejected

    Paragraph 13 a (new)

    Tabled by Valentina Palmisano, Giuseppe Antoci · The Left

    Added: 13a. Calls for an increase of EUR 500 000 000 in commitment appropriations and EUR 400 000 000 in payment appropriations under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to uphold economic, social and territorial cohesion as a core pillar of European integration; stresses that these resources are urgently needed to support regions facing structural delays, industrial transitions, and severe job losses; warns that failing to secure this funding directly undermines regional resilience and deepens territorial disparities across the Union;

15. Amendment 32Rejected

    Paragraph 13 b (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira, Leila Chaibi · The Left

    Added: 13b. Believes that, in view of rising living costs and their substantial impact on the lives of workers and their families, rising inequality and social injustices, and the persistently high level of poverty and social exclusion, the 2027 budget needs to allocate significantly more resources to the European Social Fund Plus, so as to help Member States address these challenges;

16. Amendment 33Rejected

    Paragraph 13 c (new)

    Tabled by Valentina Palmisano, Giuseppe Antoci · The Left

    Added: 13c. Stresses that cohesion policy must remain a core pillar of European integration and warns that rejecting these resources directly harms regions facing economic transition, job losses, and structural delays; calls for particular attention and dedicated, targeted measures to strengthen social cohesion, reduce economic, social and territorial disparities, and promote quality employment with fair wages, ensuring that tailored support is provided for vulnerable groups, workers facing economic transitions, and especially NEETs;

17. Amendment 34Rejected

    Paragraph 13 d (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira, Estrella Galán, Leila Chaibi · The Left

    Added: 13d. Points out that, in 2025, 19,3 million children in the Union were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, representing 24,3% of children under the age of 18; believes, therefore, that the Union budget needs to step up efforts to eradicate poverty among children, including migrant children, children with disabilities, and children living in precarious family situations, strengthening the European Child Guarantee; recalls Parliament’s calls for the creation within the ESF+ of a specific budget line for the European Child Guarantee, with its own dedicated allocation;

18. Amendment 35Rejected

    Paragraph 14 a (new)

    Tabled by Pasquale Tridico · The Left

    Added: 14a. Calls for EUR 10 million in commitment appropriations for a pilot project testing a SURE-type mechanism in the automotive sector and its component supply chains, providing short-time work and wage support conditional on company transition agreements with trade unions ensuring job retention, paid retraining and productive investment in zero-emission mobility, including affordable vehicles and supplier conversion; calls for public monitoring and recovery of support where commitments are breached, and for safeguards against dividends, share buy-backs and relocation; considers this pilot a first step towards a two-year, EUR 100 billion European SURE instrument for the automotive transition;

19. Amendment 36Rejected

    Paragraph 15 – point b a (new)

    Tabled by Giuseppe Antoci, Valentina Palmisano, Giorgos Georgiou +1 · The Left

    Added: (ba) Calls for dedicated and reinforced funding to rapidly scale up the rescEU firefighting fleet through the procurement, maintenance, and strategic deployment of firefighting aircraft such as Canadair and helicopters; insists that operational priority be given to Southern Europe’s island and peninsular regions, which stand on the frontlines of catastrophic mega-fires and the climate crisis;

20. Amendment 37Rejected

    Paragraph 15 – point c a (new)

    Tabled by Valentina Palmisano, Giuseppe Antoci, Giorgos Georgiou +2 · The Left

    Added: (ca) Calls for dedicated and reinforced resources within the EU4Health Programme to safeguard the mental health and well-being of young people and university students; insists that a guaranteed share of funding be earmarked to support the creation and deployment of a public, free, and easily accessible psychological, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial support network across educational institutions and universities, counteracting the profound impact of job precariousness, social isolation, and anxiety, with priority given to underserved and geographically disadvantaged regions;

21. Amendment 39Rejected

    Paragraph 24 a (new)

    Tabled by João Oliveira, Marc Botenga · The Left

    Added: 24a. Rejects the allocation of budgetary appropriations for militarism, in particular for war, armaments, military infrastructure, capacity and mobility; rejects the ongoing escalation of EU militarisation; calls for the reallocation of EU budget funds earmarked for militarisation programmes to support Member States in improving the economic and social situation on the basis of the principle of social and economic cohesion, to strengthen the response capacity of public services, particularly in the areas of health, education and social security, and to defend the right to decent and affordable housing for all; accordingly, rejects reinforcements and supports the deletion of the relevant appropriations for the European Defence Fund, Military Mobility, the European Defence Industry Programme and the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE);

22. Amendment 40Rejected

    Paragraph 24 b (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga · The Left

    Added: 24b. Urges the Commission and the Member States to present a critical audit of current defence expenditure within the Union, detailing why European countries would be unable to defend themselves with budgets vastly superior to those of most of the world’s countries;

23. Amendment 41Rejected

    Paragraph 24 c (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga · The Left

    Added: 24c. Firmly rejects any increase in military spending in the Union’s budget for 2027;

24. Amendment 42Rejected

    Paragraph 24 d (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Giorgos Georgiou, Rima Hassan · The Left

    Added: 24d. Rejects the allocation of appropriations from the Union budget to further militarisation; refuses the reallocation of EU social, regional and economic funds to military expenditure;

25. Amendment 44Rejected

    Paragraph 25 a (new)

    Tabled by Danilo Della Valle · The Left

    Added: 25a. Rejects the appropriations entered for support expenditure relating to the European Defence Fund, and the European Defence Industry Programme, in accordance with the corresponding budget amendments; stresses that security cannot be reduced to the continuous expansion of military capabilities or defence-industrial production; considers that an arms build-up risks fuelling escalation and an arms race without addressing the political, social, economic and environmental factors that drive conflicts; underlines that lasting security must be built through diplomacy, multilateralism, disarmament and arms-control efforts, mediation, conflict prevention, respect for international law and the peaceful settlement of disputes;

26. Amendment 45Rejected

    Paragraph 25 b (new)

    Tabled by Danilo Della Valle · The Left

    Added: 25b. Considers that devoting ever greater public resources to armaments diverts scarce budgetary resources from policies that directly improve people’s lives and strengthen social cohesion and societal resilience; calls for priority to be given to programmes supporting education, healthcare, affordable housing, social protection, support for families, quality employment, small and medium-sized enterprises and the ecological transition, particularly at a time when households and businesses are facing sustained economic and social pressures;

27. Amendment 46Rejected

    Paragraph 25 c (new)

    Tabled by Danilo Della Valle · The Left

    Added: 25c. Creates a Union Fund for Peace and Diplomacy and allocates EUR 500 million in commitment appropriations to it; considers that the Fund should strengthen the Union’s capacity for conflict prevention, mediation, facilitation of negotiations, support for ceasefire and peace processes, preventive diplomacy, early warning, confidence-building measures, inclusive dialogue and the peaceful resolution of disputes; stresses that its actions should contribute to addressing the root causes of conflict and should support the meaningful participation of civil society, local peacebuilders, women and young people in peace processes; stresses that the Fund for Peace and Diplomacy complements, rather than replaces, existing humanitarian, development and neighbourhood assistance funding programmes;

28. Amendment 47Rejected

    Paragraph 32 a (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Per Clausen, Manon Aubry +3 · The Left

    Added: 32a. Calls on the Council to amend Council Regulation (EU) 2016/300 of 29 February 2016 determining the emoluments of EU high-level public office holders to cut the basic monthly salaries of all Commissioners by 50 %;

29. Amendment 48Rejected

    Paragraph 32 b (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Per Clausen, Manon Aubry +2 · The Left

    Added: 32b. Calls on the Council to amend Council Regulation (EU) 2016/300 of 29 February 2016 determining the emoluments of EU high-level public office holders to cut the basic monthly salary of the President of the Council by 50 %;

30. Amendment 49Rejected

    Paragraph 32 c (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan +2 · The Left

    Added: 32c. Calls on the Council to amend Council Regulation (EU) 2016/300 in order to abolish the transitional allowance for the President of the European Council and Commissioners, replacing it with access to national unemployment benefits under the same conditions as other workers;

31. Amendment 50Rejected

    Paragraph 32 d (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan, Per Clausen +2 · The Left

    Added: 32d. Underlines that the salaries and benefits of the highest-ranking EU officials, such as heads of directorates, are very generous, often exceeding EUR 250 000 annually; is concerned that such disproportionately high salaries distance those officials from the everyday lives, needs, and struggles of citizens; stresses that such remuneration does not effectively prevent corruption, as some EU officials have already been implicated in past corruption scandals, such as Qatargate;

32. Amendment 51Rejected

    Paragraph 37 a (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan, Marc Botenga +5 · The Left

    Added: 37a. Highlights that, according to a study commissioned by Greenpeace, oil companies generated estimated excess profits of EUR 81,4 million per day across the Union during the first three weeks of March 2026, including EUR 11,6 million per day in France, through increased margins on petrol and diesel sales; notes that TotalEnergies reported net income of USD 11,2 billion in the first half of 2026, an increase of 72 % compared with the same period in 2025, amid higher oil prices and increased refining margins; recalls that six Member States have called for a windfall tax on energy companies; takes note of the announcement on 9 October 2026 of a working group involving the Commission and Member States to examine such taxation; stresses that these discussions must urgently lead to concrete legislative action; calls on the Commission, therefore, to submit without delay a proposal for a permanent mechanism to tax the windfall profits of multinational enterprises in all sectors, especially the energy sector;

33. Amendment 52Rejected

    Paragraph 37 b (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan, Marc Botenga +4 · The Left

    Added: 37b. Recalls that the wealth of the top 0,5 % wealthiest individuals has increased by 35 % over the last 10 years; recalls that, according to the last Oxfam study, the poorest half of people in the Union (181 million adults) had the same share of Europe’s wealth as the richest 0,001% (3,600 adults); recalls that, according to the last Commission Eurobarometer, 65 % of Europeans support the introduction of a tax for the wealthiest individuals; calls, therefore, on the Commission to make a new proposal to introduce a minimum tax of 2 % on the wealth of people with more than EUR 100 million, known as the “Zucman tax”, as a Union own resource, that could raise EUR 67 billion according to the EU tax observatory;

34. Amendment 53Rejected

    Paragraph 37 c (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan, Leila Chaibi +3 · The Left

    Added: 37c. Underlines that the Commission needs to take further timely actions to increase the Union’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 Union; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to collect the tax deficit of MNEs, namely 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;

35. Amendment 54Rejected

    Paragraph 37 d (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan, Leila Chaibi +2 · The Left

    Added: 37d. Recalls that, according to Oxfam, just 31 of the Union’s wealthiest individuals emit 3,469 tons of carbon each per year through the use of their superyachts and jets; recalls that this figure is 432 times more than the average European; calls on the Commission to make a new proposal to introduce a luxury carbon tax on luxury goods, including yachts, private jets and SUVs, as a new own resource; recalls that such a tax would be socially just, help mitigate climate change and could be more effective than a classic carbon tax;

36. Amendment 55Rejected

    Paragraph 37 e (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan, Leila Chaibi +3 · The Left

    Added: 37e. Recalls that the Commission needs to take further timely action to increase the Union’s own resources; underlines that, in line with the legally binding Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020, the Commission should present a genuine tax on financial transactions which could raise more than EUR 50 billion per year, based on the details of the financial transaction tax which should have been implemented under enhanced cooperation according to the 2013 agreement;

37. Amendment 59Rejected

    Paragraph 38 a (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan +4 · The Left

    Added: 38a. Calls for an adjustment of the Statute for Members of the European Parliament to cut the basic monthly salaries of Members by 50 %;

38. Amendment 60Rejected

    Paragraph 38 b (new)

    Tabled by Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan, Per Clausen +4 · The Left

    Added: 38b. Recalls that the daily allowance is a flat-rate sum covering accommodation, meals and related expenses each day that a Member is present at Parliament on official business; stresses that Members must sign an attendance register in order to benefit from it; notes that there are exemptions for the President and the chairs of political groups who automatically benefit from it independently of their presence unless they explicitly request it; calls on the Parliament to put an end to the exceptions for the President and the chairs of political groups, who should sign an attendance register like all other Members to benefit from their per-diem;

39. Amendment 61Rejected

    Paragraph 40 a (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Per Clausen · The Left

    Added: 40a. Calls upon Members and former Members who retain entitlements under the Additional (Voluntary) Pension Scheme to voluntarily and irrevocably waive such rights and entitlements, in order to facilitate the closure of the Additional Pension Fund and relieve Parliament budget of any future liabilities arising from the Scheme;

40. Amendment 62Rejected

    Paragraph 40 b (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Per Clausen, Manon Aubry +3 · The Left

    Added: 40b. Calls for the dissolution of the optional pension scheme for Members;

41. Amendment 63Rejected

    Paragraph 40 c (new)

    Tabled by Marc Botenga, Manon Aubry, Rima Hassan +2 · The Left

    Added: 40c. Calls for an amendment to the Statute for Members of the European Parliament and the relevant implementing rules, in order to abolish the transitional allowance for former Members and replace it with access to national unemployment benefits under the same conditions as other workers;

42. Amendment 64Rejected

    Paragraph 43 a (new)

    Tabled by Leila Chaibi, João Oliveira, Marc Botenga +6 · The Left

    Added: 43a. Stresses that the outsourcing of cleaning, catering, childcare, travel agency and IT services services exposes the staff concerned, who are predominantly women, to often more precarious employment conditions, a deterioration in their working conditions and less favourable social protection; recalls that Parliament must set an example in terms of workers’ rights and job quality; accordingly calls for the in-house provision of those services, including the staff responsible for them, to be reinstated as soon as possible, with full respect for workers’ rights, fair remuneration, guarantees ensuring continuity of employment and compliance with the highest social and labour standards;

43. Amendment 68Rejected

    Paragraph 1 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 1a. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the exploitation of rule-of-law conditionality for the purpose of politically motivated ideological attacks against Member States; emphasises that, as part of these attacks, the Commission has clearly used and funded left-wing NGOs and media outlets with Union funds; therefore demands an immediate end to the use of Union funds to finance these attacks on national sovereignty, which are perpetrated through the misuse of rule-of-law conditionality;

44. Amendment 70Rejected

    Paragraph 3 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: 3a. Recalls the conclusions of Special Report No. 18/2025 of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) on the Union’s budgetary flexibility; emphasises that the identification and analysis of needs have been insufficient, that the current framework remains too complex due to the proliferation of overlapping instruments and the lack of a clearly established order of use, and that certain tools were systematically exhausted during the first years of the MFF, thereby reducing their availability for subsequent years; calls on the Commission to simplify the flexibility framework, clarify existing instruments, and enhance transparency and documentation regarding the choices made when mobilising margins or special instruments, in accordance with the recommendations made by the Court of Auditors;

45. Amendment 71Rejected

    Paragraph 4

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    4. Removed: Recalls the Interinstitutional Agreement adopted as part of the 2020 MFF agreement, whereby expenditure to cover NGEU financing costs “shall aim at not reducing programmes and funds”; restores, therefore, all the cuts proposed by Council to ensure that programmes are properly resourced and that the budget’s flexibility and response capacity are maintained throughout the annual budgetary procedure; insists on Added: Stresses the need for the Commission to provide reliable, Removed: timely Added: timely, and accurate information on Removed: NGEU borrowing costs and on expected Added: the borrowing costs of the NGEU and on the projected disbursements under the Recovery and Resilience Removed: Facility disbursements according to Added: Facility, in accordance with the methodology applied since Removed: 2025 budget, whereby Added: the 2025 budget, according to which the Commission will base the budgeting of the EURI interest line for a given year on disbursements Removed: which are confirmed by the end of the third quarter of the previous year;

46. Amendment 72Rejected

    Paragraph 4 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 4a. Recalls that the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) instrument, presented as an exceptional recovery plan in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis and financed through the issuance of joint bonds, was hastily designed by the Commission without a thorough impact assessment; recalls that, according to the European Court of Auditors’ annual report for the 2025 fiscal year, the Commission has increasingly turned to capital markets over the past five years to finance large-scale programs, such as SURE and NGEU; emphasises that the Union’s outstanding debt could reach EUR 1 000 billion by 2027, including up to EUR 421 billion in non-repayable support from NGEU; notes that the Commission proposes to allocate EUR 24 billion per year over the 2028 – 2034 period to interest payments and principal repayments, while interest costs alone related to NGEU’s non-repayable support could reach approximately EUR 93 billion over the same period; is deeply concerned about the Commission’s failure to publish a comprehensive NGEU debt repayment strategy for the period up to 2058; warns of the considerable and lasting budgetary burden resulting from this instrument, whose financing costs risk significantly reducing the Union’s financial flexibility over the coming decades and could necessitate an increase in national contributions;

47. Amendment 74Rejected

    Paragraph 6 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: 6a. Condemns the growing financial burden that the additional costs resulting from NGEU place on the Union budget; rejects any recourse to new joint borrowing or new own resources to finance these costs;

48. Amendment 75Rejected

    Paragraph 8 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: 8a. Emphasises that priority should be given to the mobilising of all existing budgetary resources; calls for savings to be identified, for the recovery of unduly spent Union funds, including in cases of fraud or irregularities, to be strengthened, and for rigorous expenditure management to be implemented before any recourse to additional budgetary instruments;

49. Amendment 77Rejected

    Paragraph 10 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 10a. Rejects any increase in administrative expenditures resulting from the establishment and management of the support loan to Ukraine; considers that these tasks should be carried out within the framework of existing administrative resources; calls on the Commission to identify all possible savings, streamline administrative expenditures, and ensure rigorous and responsible management of Union funds, without imposing additional burdens on the Union budget;

50. Amendment 79Rejected

    Paragraph 14 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Added: 14a. Emphasises that the outermost regions of the Union, and in particular the overseas countries and territories (OCTs), require specific support due to their remoteness; draws particular attention to the difficulties in accessing drinking water and sanitation, to the functioning of water infrastructure, and to the need to create new, appropriate infrastructure; notes in particular the poor condition of water distribution networks, which is a common problem in the outermost regions; notes with concern that, although these issues are among the priorities of the Union’s external humanitarian action, the Union’s outermost regions do not appear to be receiving the support they deserve to address these serious problems;

51. Amendment 80Rejected

    Paragraph 15 – point b a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: (ba) Emphasises the importance of robust and proactive public policies on disaster prevention in all Member States, including the regular maintenance and reinforcement of critical infrastructure such as dams and waterways; stresses that the lessons learned from recent natural disasters highlight the need for continued investment in prevention and maintenance in order to reduce future risks;

52. Amendment 81Rejected

    Paragraph 15 – point g a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: (ga) Calls for the creation of a new priority and new actions within the “European Remembrance” initiative, dedicated to commemorating the crimes of communism within the Union, so that the devastation caused by this ideology is never forgotten and so that younger generations are made aware of it;

53. Amendment 82Rejected

    Paragraph 15 – point g b (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: (gb) Expresses deep concern that the Commission has funded or co-funded campaigns encouraging the wearing of the veil, stating, for example, that “freedom is found in the hijab”; insists that, in the future, the Union budget should no longer fund any campaigns that directly or indirectly encourage the wearing of the veil;

54. Amendment 83Rejected

    Paragraph 15 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 15a. Demands that funding for Union propaganda that undermines the national sovereignty of Member States be reduced and, while supporting culture and creativity in general, opposes the spread of “woke” ideology by several media companies across Europe funded by Union funds;

55. Amendment 84Rejected

    Paragraph 21 – point a a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: (aa) Recalls that agricultural programs under Heading 3 play a key role in strengthening support for farmers, particularly the younger generation, throughout the Union, especially given farmers’ legitimate concerns and the vital role that agriculture plays in food security; emphasises that farmers are facing major challenges, such as geopolitical disruptions, extreme weather conditions, animal diseases, market volatility, the transition to more sustainable practices, rural poverty, and administrative burdens; emphasises the crucial role of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in this regard and recalls the objectives set forth in Article 39 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which include increasing agricultural productivity by promoting technical progress and the optimal use of production factors, ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers and agricultural workers, to guarantee food security, and to ensure supply and reasonable prices for consumers;

56. Amendment 85Rejected

    Paragraph 21 – point a b (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: (ab) Emphasises that the Union’s food security and sovereignty are essential elements of its strategic autonomy and that the budget must support the Union’s agriculture and fisheries sectors, in particular family farms, young farmers, and fishermen, in order to enable them to produce food in a profitable, competitive, and sustainable manner; emphasises the essential role of the CAP in increasing productivity through technological progress, in ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers, and in guaranteeing food security;

57. Amendment 87Rejected

    Paragraph 21 – point a d (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: (ad) Emphasises the importance of European exports of agricultural and wine products for the Union’s trade balance and highlights the impact of recent retaliatory measures on European agricultural products, such as pork; stresses that European producers of wine, spirits, and agricultural products must not become sacrificial lambs in trade actions related to other industrial sectors; calls on the Commission to establish targeted and effective support mechanisms for the sectors affected by these measures and to seek diplomatic avenues to mitigate the impact of these retaliatory measures;

58. Amendment 88Rejected

    Paragraph 21 – point b a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: (ba) Calls on the European Court of Auditors to conduct an in-depth audit of the funds allocated to the LIFE program, in order to assess their effectiveness, cost-benefit ratio, and true added value for the Union’s environmental objectives;

59. Amendment 89Rejected

    Paragraph 21 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 21a. Emphasizes the failure of EU policies to prevent migration flows and human trafficking; reiterates its concerns regarding the role played by the Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund, which should ensure the proper implementation of a rigorous asylum policy in line with international standards, while curbing illegal immigration and ensuring border controls as well as an adequate return policy;

60. Amendment 90Rejected

    Paragraph 21 b (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 21b. Recalls that the Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund (AMIF) has failed to fulfill its role for years and that, rather than contributing effectively to the fight against illegal immigration, it has encouraged the continuation of irregular migration flows; condemns the fact that the agreement on the new European Union Pact on Migration and Asylum was concluded in contradiction to the conclusions of the European Council of December 15, 2016, and June 28, 2018, in the absence of consensus among Member States on the reform of asylum and migration policy; calls, therefore, for the resources of the AMIF to be redirected as a matter of priority toward the effective management of migration flows, in particular by strengthening external border controls, resolutely combating illegal immigration, and funding concrete measures aimed at ensuring the safety of European citizens;

61. Amendment 92Rejected

    Paragraph 27 – point b a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: (ba) Emphasizes that the granting of EU development aid should be conditional on effective cooperation by partner countries regarding the return and readmission of their nationals residing illegally in the EU; believes that such an approach would strengthen the coherence of the EU’s external policies and ensure a more responsible use of European funds;

62. Amendment 93Rejected

    Paragraph 27 a (new)

    Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 27a. Recalls that the Commission cannot be trusted to allocate substantial European Union budgetary funds to unaccountable civil society organizations, as there are justified concerns that opaque backroom deals and hidden agendas may influence the decision-makers responsible for selecting and funding these organizations; Condemns the fact that many organizations receiving European Union funding have been criticized for promoting biased narratives under the guise of representing civil society;

63. Amendment 94Rejected

    Paragraph 27 b (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 27b. Calls for the immediate cessation of all funding granted to organizations that support, directly or indirectly, groups designated as terrorist organizations by the Union;

64. Amendment 95Rejected

    Paragraph 32 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: 32a. Calls for further streamlining of the European Union’s administrative services in order to eliminate duplication and reduce unnecessary costs; emphasizes that the savings thus achieved should be reallocated to the Union’s strategic priorities, in particular border security, support for SMEs, agriculture, and research and innovation;

65. Amendment 96Rejected

    Paragraph 36

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    36. Removed: Underlines the need to provide a sufficient level of payment appropriations in the 2027 budget and decides, as a general rule, to reinforce payment appropriations on those lines which are amended in commitment appropriations; Added: Emphasizes that payment appropriations must reflect actual and duly justified needs in terms of implementation; calls for rigorous expenditure control, sound financial management, and the identification of savings before any additional resources are mobilized;

66. Amendment 97Rejected

    Paragraph 38

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    38. Removed: Insists that the nomenclature for revenue must be consistent with Article 311 TFEU, which states that, without prejudice to other revenue, the budget is financed wholly from own resources; welcomes, in this regard, the presentation of revenue in the DB, which refers to categories of own resources instead of national contributions, contrary to Council’s statement n° 3 to its position on the DB; Added: Recalls that Article 311 of the TFEU defines the framework for the Union’s own-resources system; emphasizes that the financing of the Union budget should not lead to the creation of new tax burdens for citizens and businesses; considers that budgetary needs should be met primarily through better control of expenditures, savings, the fight against fraud, and the effective recovery of unduly spent funds;

67. Amendment 98Rejected

    Paragraph 38 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 38a. Opposes the introduction of new own resources for the Union; emphasises that the implementation of the Commission’s proposals in this regard would further increase the tax burden on citizens and businesses;

68. Amendment 99Rejected

    Paragraph 39

    Tabled by Auke Zijlstra, Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    39. Removed: Reiterates the Parliament’s priorities for the forthcoming financial year, namely continuing reinforcing the Added: Reaffirms Parliament’s priorities regarding expenditure reductions for the next budget year, which entail, in particular, not continuing to strengthen administrative support for Parliament Removed: to exercise its core functions of co-legislator, budgetary and discharge authority, the digital transition including investment in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, infrastructure as well as Green Parliament; Added: or the “Green Parliament” project;

69. Amendment 100Rejected

    Paragraph 44 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: 44a. Emphasises that the current financial situation affecting the Union budget, including that of the European Parliament, should be addressed through increased budgetary responsibility in the form of more efficient use of funds already allocated at all levels of implementation, rather than through the creation of new own resources or an increase in GNI-based contributions;

70. Amendment 101Rejected

    Paragraph 44 b (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: 44b. Regrets that the total budget allocated for the renovation of the Spaak building has been set at EUR 455 million; considers this decision to have been made in a completely irresponsible manner; emphasises the need to ensure strict cost control, transparency, and adherence to the planned budget; expresses scepticism that the renovation of a single building, which is already fully operational, could cost nearly half a billion euros; demands a reduction in the costs of this project; demands full transparency and monitoring of all expenditures related to this project in order to ensure that those involved are held accountable in the event of any financial irregularities; expresses concern over the lack of a detailed breakdown of costs for the planned renovation of the Spaak building, as decided by the Bureau of the European Parliament; emphasises that such a lack of transparency is particularly problematic for a project of this scale and raises concerns about potential cost overruns, especially in light of those observed in several previous European construction projects, such as the Berlaymont , the Europa building, the Court of Justice, the EMA, and KAD II;

71. Amendment 102Rejected

    Paragraph 44 c (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +1 · PfE

    Added: 44c. Rejects the creation of “Europa Experience” centres, considering them an unacceptable waste of public funds to the detriment of the genuine priorities of European citizens; emphasises that maintaining high costs for these largely underutilised facilities constitutes inefficient and irresponsible management of budgetary resources; condemns the low level of interest in these centres, whose attendance remains marginal, and criticises their use as a propaganda tool aimed at promoting an ever-more-centralised Union at the expense of Member State sovereignty; rejects any attempt to expand this costly initiative; calls for a halt to any further investment in these spaces;

72. Amendment 104Rejected

    Paragraph 46

    Tabled by Auke Zijlstra, Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    46. Removed: Condemns the Commission’s horizontal approach to reduce the estimates of the institutions Added: Welcomes the horizontal approach adopted by the Commission aimed at reducing the institutions’ budget estimates in order to Removed: adhere to Added: comply with the principle of Removed: stable staffing, and to a maximum increase of 2 % for non-salary related expenditure irrespective of new tasks given Added: staff stability, as well as at limiting the increase in non-salary expenditure to 2 %, regardless of the new tasks entrusted to the institutions by the Commission and the co-legislators; Removed: underlines the negative consequences Added: emphasises the positive impact of this approach on Removed: the work of the institutions; Added: Member States and, consequently, on the wallets of European citizens;

73. Amendment 105Rejected

    Paragraph 48

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    48. Removed: Highlights the need for the institutions to have sufficient staff in order to fulfil their mandate and adapt to challenges; welcomes the continuous efforts made by the institutions to redeploy staff and find additional efficiency gains but acknowledges the limits of this approach over the years; stresses the inevitability of reinforcing the amount of staff when necessary in order for the institutions to fulfil their mandates; Added: Emphasises that the institutions should carry out their tasks primarily using existing human resources; considers that any request for additional posts must be duly justified and preceded by a rigorous needs assessment; calls for strict control of personnel expenditure;

74. Amendment 106Rejected

    Paragraph 49 – introductory part

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    49. Removed: Increases, for the following duly justified cases, the level of Added: Calls on the Union institutions to reduce their administrative expenditure and eliminate non-essential expenditure; calls for the streamlining of administrative structures to avoid duplication and unjustified costs; considers that requests for increases in appropriations or staff Removed: above the DB to give the institutions enough resources to perform adequately, efficiently and effectively the growing number of tasks from their mandate and to be equipped for the upcoming challenges, in particular as regards cyber-security and artificial intelligence; highlights that most of the issues are recurrent issues that were not solved in previous budgetary procedures; proposes therefore to: Added: should remain exceptional and be based on clearly demonstrated needs; calls, in particular, for a reduction in the administrative expenditure of bodies and institutions whose mandates overlap or whose added value does not justify the current level of spending;

75. Amendment 107Rejected

    Paragraph 50 a (new)

    Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra, Tomasz Buczek +3 · PfE

    Added: 50a. Calls for further streamlining of the Union’s administrative services in order to eliminate duplication and reduce unnecessary costs; emphasises that the savings thus achieved should be reallocated to priorities that provide tangible added value to citizens, in particular agriculture, border security, support for SMEs, and research and innovation;

76. Amendment 110Rejected

    Paragraph 22 a (new)

    Tabled by Nicolas Bay, Tobiasz Bocheński, Dick Erixon +2 · ECR

    Added: 22a. Notes that the protection of the Union’s external land and maritime borders against illegal crossings and hybrid threats, including instrumentalised migration, requires adequate border infrastructure; calls on the Commission to ensure that the Border Management and Visa Instrument and other relevant Union instruments can support, upon request by the Member States concerned, physical border protection infrastructure, including barriers, alongside surveillance and monitoring systems;

77. Amendment 111Rejected

    Paragraph 37 a (new)

    Tabled by Nicolas Bay, Dick Erixon, Nikola Bartůšek +2 · ECR

    Added: 37a. Stresses that revenue from competition fines should not be used to justify an increase in Union expenditure but should instead be used to ease the financial burden on Member States and their taxpayers through a corresponding proportional reduction to their national contributions to the Union budget;

78. Amendment 113Rejected

    Paragraph 4

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka, Milan Uhrík +1 · ESN

    4. Removed: Recalls the Interinstitutional Agreement adopted as part of the 2020 MFF agreement, whereby expenditure to cover NGEU financing costs “shall aim at not reducing programmes and funds”; restores, therefore, all the cuts proposed by Council to ensure that programmes are properly resourced and that the budget’s flexibility and response capacity are maintained throughout the annual budgetary procedure; insists on the need for Added: Regrets the sharp increase in the financing and liquidity-management costs of NGEU; reiterates its opposition to common Union borrowing and to the establishment of a permanent debt or fiscal capacity at Union level; insists that only legally binding debt-service expenditure actually falling due in 2027 be financed within the existing MFF ceilings through savings and redeployment from non-essential expenditure, without new Union taxes, additional national contributions, recourse to special instruments or further common borrowing; calls on the Commission to provide Removed: reliable, timely and accurate information on NGEU borrowing costs and on expected Recovery and Resilience Facility disbursements according to the methodology applied since 2025 budget, whereby the Commission will base the budgeting of the EURI interest line for a given year on disbursements which are confirmed by the end of the third quarter of the previous year; Added: complete, timely and auditable information on borrowing, disbursements, interest expenditure, liquidity-management costs and the Union’s total contingent liabilities;

79. Amendment 114Rejected

    Paragraph 6

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    6. Removed: Notes, in addition, that liquidity management costs have increased significantly due to delays in payment requests; requests that the currently estimated liquidity management cost of Added: Notes that the estimated liquidity-management costs for NGEU amount to EUR 350 million Removed: for 2027 are isolated in a separate new budget line for transparency purposes; transfers the appropriations to the newly proposed article 06 04 XX; argues therefore that the liquidity management costs should be financed solely from the decommitment compartment of the EURI instrument; Added: in 2027 and requests that those costs be presented on a separate budget line in order to ensure transparency; stresses that such a reclassification does not constitute a saving or justify expenditure above the MFF ceilings; rejects the financing of those costs through the EURI Instrument and insists that any legally unavoidable costs be covered through savings and redeployment within the existing budget;

80. Amendment 115Rejected

    Paragraph 8

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka, Milan Uhrík +1 · ESN

    8. Removed: Considers necessary the Added: Rejects the proposed full mobilisation of the Ukraine Support Loan Instrument for Removed: the totality of the Added: EUR 1 115 000 000; reiterates its opposition to the EUR 90 billion Ukraine Support Loan, to common Union borrowing and to the use of the headroom of the Union budget as a guarantee; notes, nevertheless, that legally binding debt-service obligations already entered into must be honoured; insists that any appropriations entered in Removed: article 16 07 01 (EUR 1 115 000 000) in light of the answers needed from the Union budget to face the challenges and after a thorough assessment of availabilities, taking into account legal and other obligations, as well as prudent budgeting and sound financial management; points out as well that the Flexibility Instrument and the Single Margin Instrument can only be mobilised in relation to existing MFF headings, in accordance with the provisions of the MFF Regulation; Added: the 2027 budget be limited to amounts that are legally unavoidable, actually fall due in 2027 and are supported by a detailed and independently verifiable cash-flow forecast; calls for full reporting on borrowing, disbursements, final recipients, procurement, interest and liquidity-management costs, contingent liabilities and compliance with anti-corruption conditions; opposes any further common borrowing or increase in the guarantee provided by the Union budget;

81. Amendment 116Rejected

    Paragraph 15 – introductory part

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    15. Removed: Restores the Council cuts of EUR 523 143 000 and increases by EUR 275 100 000 in commitment appropriations above the DB (excluding pilot projects and preparatory actions) and by EUR 798 243 000 compared to the Council position in order to reinforce the following programs above DB as follows: Added: Rejects the blanket restoration of the Council reductions under Heading 2b and any blanket increases above the draft budget; calls for each programme and body to be assessed separately and for any strictly necessary reinforcement to be fully offset by savings elsewhere; rejects the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme, Creative Europe MEDIA, the European Institute for Gender Equality and Commission prerogative lines; considers that strictly operational civil-protection expenditure may be supported only where it demonstrates clear cross-border added value and measurable results;

82. Amendment 117Rejected

    Paragraph 21 – introductory part

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka, Milan Uhrík +1 · ESN

    21. Removed: Restores the Council cuts of EUR 12 550 000 and increases by EUR 170 000 000 in commitment appropriations above the DB (excluding pilot projects and preparatory actions) and by EUR 182 550 000 compared to Added: Rejects any increase above the Council position Removed: in order to reinforce the following programs above DB as follows: Added: for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and the European Union Agency for Asylum; considers that expenditure under Heading 4 must instead prioritise the effective protection of the Union’s external borders, including physical border infrastructure and surveillance, the prevention of illegal entry and the return of persons with no right to remain; supports appropriations for the Border Management and Visa Instrument and eu-LISA only insofar as they directly and measurably serve those objectives; rejects the use of Union funds for relocation and resettlement schemes, for measures liable to create incentives for illegal migration or for measures encroaching upon the Member States’ competence to determine their asylum and immigration policies;

83. Amendment 118Rejected

    Paragraph 27 – introductory part

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    27. Removed: Increases by EUR 139 000 000 in commitment appropriations above the DB and by EUR 137 990 000 compared to the Council position in order to reinforce the following programs above DB as follows: Added: Rejects blanket increases above the draft budget for NDICI – Global Europe, the Reform and Growth Facility for Moldova and civil society organisations; insists that any expenditure under Heading 6 be limited to clearly defined interests of the Member States and be subject to measurable results, full transparency, anti-fraud controls and enforceable suspension clauses; calls for non-humanitarian assistance to third countries to be made conditional on effective cooperation on readmission, returns and the prevention of illegal migration; calls for humanitarian assistance to be concentrated primarily close to regions of origin and to remain strictly needs-based; rejects the use of NDICI – Global Europe, humanitarian aid or any other Heading 6 budget line to supplement or circumvent the appropriations and conditionality applicable to the Ukraine Facility or the Ukraine Support Loan;

84. Amendment 119Rejected

    Paragraph 34 a (new)

    Tabled by Christine Anderson, Milan Uhrík, Marcin Sypniewski +1 · ESN

    Added: 34a. Notes the European Ombudsman’s findings and suggestions for improvement concerning the Commission’s handling and preservation of text messages1a; stresses that effective scrutiny of the Union budget requires reliable records of Commission decision-making; calls on the Commission, including its President, Members and their Cabinets, to stop using automatic deletion for messages concerning Commission business unless a complete and readable copy has first been securely preserved in an official records repository; insists that this apply irrespective of the device, account or messaging service used; calls for messages covered by requests for public access to be preserved throughout the handling of those requests and any subsequent review, irrespective of internal registration criteria; underlines that preservation does not entail automatic disclosure and that confidentiality and data-protection safeguards continue to apply; 1a European Ombudsman, Recommendation of 3 June 2026 in case 2482/2025/NH, including the accompanying suggestions for improvement: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/recommendation/en/226853

85. Amendment 120Rejected

    Paragraph 36

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    36. Removed: Underlines the need to provide a sufficient level Added: Rejects the automatic reinforcement of payment appropriations Removed: in the 2027 budget and decides, as a general rule, to reinforce payment appropriations on those lines which are amended in commitment appropriations; Added: solely because commitment appropriations have been increased; considers that payment appropriations must be determined line by line on the basis of realistic implementation forecasts, outstanding legal commitments, absorption capacity and verified payment needs;

86. Amendment 121Rejected

    Paragraph 38

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka, Milan Uhrík +1 · ESN

    38. Removed: Insists that the nomenclature for revenue must be consistent with Article 311 TFEU, which states that, without prejudice to other revenue, the budget is financed wholly from own resources; welcomes, in this regard, the presentation of revenue in the DB, which refers to categories of own resources instead of national contributions, contrary to Council’s statement n° 3 to its position on the DB; Added: Recalls that the Union has no autonomous power of taxation; rejects the introduction of new Union taxes and any new own resources that would increase the overall burden on citizens and businesses or diminish the fiscal sovereignty of the Member States; considers that GNI- and VAT-based resources, while legally classified as own resources, must be presented transparently as payments ultimately borne by the Member States and their taxpayers; stresses that the repayment of NGEU and other Union borrowing must not be used to establish a permanent fiscal capacity or debt union at Union level;

87. Amendment 122Rejected

    Paragraph 46

    Tabled by Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    46. Removed: Condemns Added: Supports the principle of stable staffing and expenditure restraint; considers, however, that the Commission’s horizontal approach Removed: to reduce the estimates of the institutions in order to adhere to the principle of stable staffing, and to a maximum increase of 2 % for non-salary related expenditure irrespective of new tasks given to the institutions by the Commission and the co-legislators; underlines the negative consequences of this approach on the work of the institutions; Added: does not go far enough; calls for a net reduction in staffing through attrition and redeployment and for non-salary administrative expenditure to be frozen in nominal terms, except for strictly demonstrated and unavoidable security requirements;

88. Amendment 124Rejected

    Citation 12 a (new)

    Tabled by Céline Imart, Christophe Gomart, Nadine Morano +34 · Members

    Added: – having regard to its resolution of 8 October 2026 on the need for an EU strategy to counter Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood network1a, 1a Texts adopted, P10_TA(2026)0342.