Décharge 2024: Budget général de l'UE - Commission

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1. Amendement 3 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

   Paragraph 14

   Déposé par Carlo Fidanza · ECR

   … under the Treaties, civil society organisations are legitimate beneficiaries of Union funding Ajouté: as long as they respect the “Guidance on funding for activities related to the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of Union legislation and policy” (Ares(2024)3320196) and frequently support the attainment of Union objectives; stresses that budgetary control, … a neutral, proportionate and evidence-based way, with due regard for legal certainty; Supprimé: highlights that selective transparency can undermine confidence in the discharge process, and that effective scrutiny requires the consistent application of comparable standards to all beneficiaries; takes note of Ajouté: we welcome the Scrutiny Working Group established within Parliament in this regard;

2. Amendement 7 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

   Paragraph 15 a (new)

   Déposé par Carlo Fidanza · ECR

   Ajouté: 15 a. Notes that cooperation with civil society organisations is essential for the development and implementation of Union policies; draws attention, in this context, to the potential risks of undue influence through lobbying activities by certain non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that receive significant funding from the Union budget; highlights in particular the role of the Commission and the decentralized and executive agencies, included European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), which manages major grant programmes such as LIFE; encourages Commission and CINEA to further strengthen ex-ante and ex-post controls, including clear provisions to prevent the use of EU funds for lobbying activities that could affect the independence of the Union decision-making process;

3. Amendement 9 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

   Paragraph 3 a (new)

   Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

   Ajouté: 3 a. Considers that if the European Court of Auditors issues an adverse opinion on the expenditure of the European Commission budget, Parliament should automatically refuse to grant discharge;

4. Amendement 10 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

   Paragraph 7 a (new)

   Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

   Ajouté: 7 a. Deplores the scandal of the President of the Commission purchasing 4.6 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines for EUR 71 billion and ordering an additional 146 million doses in 2024 for an unknown amount, while according to Politico, European countries had already admitted in 2024 that they had discarded 215 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines; - Recalls that the European Commissioner for Health testified before the COVI Special Committee on 27 March 2023 that President Von der Leyen was not involved in any negotiation of a contract for COVID-19 vaccines, contrary to the information published by the New York Times (28 April 2021) and the findings of the European Court of Auditors in its Special Report on the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines; - Recalls that the Commission required certain Members of Parliament, members of the COVI Committee, to sign a confidentiality undertaking on 30 May 2023 without specifying the end date of this confidentiality obligation concerning an allowance paid per dose by Europeans to Pfizer in exchange for the non-delivery of certain doses still to be delivered; - Deplores the persistent lack of transparency on the part of the Commission regarding the agreements it has concluded with the pharmaceutical companies responsible for the production of COVID-19 vaccines or Remdesivir, as well as the SMS communications between the President of the Commission and the CEO of a pharmaceutical company to the point that legal action has damaged the reputation of the Commission, when the President could easily have explained herself before Parliament; - Regrets the Commission’s failure to address the serious side effects of COVID vaccines on victims, particularly concerning medical research and compensation; - Notes that in the Pfizer case, the Court of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on 17 July 2024 that the Commission did not give the public sufficiently broad access to contracts for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines; - Notes that in the SMS exchanged with Pfizer case, the Court of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on 14 May 2025 that Commission von der Leyen did not provide a plausible explanation to justify the non-possession of the requested documents or why it considered that the text messages exchanged in the context of the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines did not contain substantial information7a; - Is surprised that the Commission’s major financial errors in recent years (COVID vaccine contracts, Remdesivir, variable interest rates for the RFF, carbon tax fraud, etc.) have not been proactively investigated either ex ante or ex post to detect possible complicity or negligence; - Regrets that the Commission keeps prices and contracts secret (even for 2024 contracts) preventing parliamentary scrutiny of contracts; - Notes the extreme slowness of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in the investigation into the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines and the EPPO’s persistent refusal to answer Members’ questions on the resources dedicated to the investigation or on the timetable or operations carried out complicating Members’ scrutiny of the Commission; - Regrets that the Commission chose to defend Pfizer rather than the Member States (Hungary, Poland, Romania) in the legal dispute between them over the refusal to order vaccine doses that became unnecessary after the end of the pandemic; - Notes that in 2026 Pfizer sought and obtained a judgment on a total of approximately EUR 2 billion from those States; Regrets that the Commission paid EUR 53 million7b to Pfizer in 2024; Regrets that the Commission compensated Pfizer for undelivered and possibly unproduced doses; Regrets that the Commission did not carry out any planned audits within 5 years of the signature of the contracts as long as the documents are available on the quality of the lots, the documentation provided by the manufacturers or other elements; - Requests a follow-up by the Commission in the form of a working group dedicated to the EUR 2 billion penalty imposed by Pfizer on Member States, as well as a final European Court of Auditors (ECA) special report to formally inform Parliament; 7a https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2025-05/cp250060fr.pdf 7b https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/belgian-court-orders-poland-romania-buy-22-billion-pfizer-covid-vaccines-2026-04-01/; https://www.euractiv.com/news/hungary-poland-romania-to-face-pfizer-in-brussels-over-covid-vaccine-contracts/

5. Amendement 11 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

   Paragraph 9

   Déposé par Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Virginie Joron · PfE

   … in their current functions and in their previous roles; notes with concern Supprimé: that several senior management positions remained vacant in DG NEAR Ajouté: the ongoing judicial investigation in Spain into alleged corruption linked to Forestalia Renovables S.L. and renewable energy authorisations involving senior officials from the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge during the period in which the current Supprimé: Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare was responsible for this Directorate-General in his capacity as Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, and notes that the information provided by the Commission in this regard during the exchange of views with the discharge authority was inaccurate; stresses that the Commission must ensure that all Members of the College meet the standards of integrity, independence and professional conduct required in order to exercise their responsibilities, particularly where those responsibilities involve the management of politically sensitive portfolios and significant Union funds; Ajouté: Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition served as Minister responsable for that portfolio; regrets the absence of full and transparent explanations regarding the responsibility arising from those events; considers that, taken together, the Supprimé: past serious and prolonged management failures in DG NEAR, the provision of inaccurate information to Parliament in the context of the discharge procedure, and the additional concerns relating to conduct and independence outlined above Ajouté: political responsibility exercised over that area, the institutional links with senior officials currently under investigation and the lack of public explanations demonstrate a pattern that is incompatible with the standards of accountability, reliability …

6. Amendement 12 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

   Paragraph 11 a (new)

   Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

   Ajouté: 11 a. Notes that since the COVID episode, the Commission distanced itself too easily from the Treaties to invent EU competences (housing, elections, health, intelligence, weather, etc.), new taxes, colossal debts or other financial scaffolding that jeopardise the financial health of European households and States in the short and long term;

7. Amendement 13 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

   Paragraph 13 a (new)

   Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

   Ajouté: 13 a. Deplores the lack of effective control by the European Commission over the legal status of the NGOs (whether non-profit or otherwise) it finances, and the absence of a ceiling on executive remuneration to distinguish between ‘commercial’ NGOs and genuine solidarity-based NGOs;

8. Amendement 14 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

   Paragraph 14 a (new)

   Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

   Ajouté: 14 a. Recalls that grants to NGOs under the EU budget amount to several billion euros per year (estimated at 7.4 billion euros by the European Court of Auditors between 2021 and 2023) of which 3.3 billion euros were received by 30 organisations14a; - Recalls that the scandals of Qatargate or the fraud of humanitarian aid in Syria14b or via Caritas14c in Luxembourg have revealed that some civil society organisations are catalysts for corruption14d; - Deplores the lack of effective control by the European Commission and its executive agencies to trace and publish the final beneficiary of the funds it allocates, in particular in the face of the opaque system of cascading grants between NGOs; - Recalls that many media are subsidised by public or private funds and organise conferences on European policies. The Commission invested EUR 210 million in various media between 2021 and 2027. For example, Euractiv would have received €40 million in 10 years; - Notes that the European Commission spent EUR 81 million on the communication budget in 2024, the year of the European elections14e; calls on the Commission to avoid any communication expenses during election periods as these funds are not declared to the national electoral authorities; - Recalls that a resounding report has revealed the shameless embezzlement of taxpayers’ money by the European Commission, which has injected billions into an obscure network of real-false NGOs and media, a veritable propaganda machine to promote its Europhile policies and silence dissenting voices; Is concerned about the acceleration of the Commission’s attempts to combat freedom of expression over the past several years; is concerned that the Commission plans to inject an additional EUR 9 billion through the AgoraEU programme; 14a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-003339_EN.html and https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/publications?ref=SR-2025-11 14b https://anti-fraud.ec.europa.eu/media-corner/news/olaf-concludes-investigation-activities-ngo-providing-emergency-assistance-syria-2020-02-07_en 14c https://www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/caritas-missing-millions-may-never-be-recovered-prosecutors-say/79040954.html 14d https://www.politico.eu/article/aid-agencies-under-olaf-investigation/ 14e https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202400207

9. Amendement 15 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

   Paragraph 14 b (new)

   Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

   Ajouté: 14 b. Calls on the Commission to require NGOs to publish on the landing page of their websites the salaries of their managers, the total amount of European and national funds received, and a summary of activities carried out; Notes that the CEO of Save the Children International received14f an annual salary of $371,235 in 2024 and that the Times newspaper revealed that 7 OXFAM executives received annual salaries in Kenya in excess of £140,000 (€165,000)14g ; 14f https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/TRUSTEES-REPORT-STRATEGIC-REVIEW-AND-FINANCIAL-STATEMENTS-2024.pdf 14g https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/oxfam-charity-international-finance-salaries-revealed-hj02nc9q5

10. Amendement 16 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 15 a (new)

    Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Ajouté: 15 a. Calls for each Member State to have the option of objecting to the use of its contributions to the Union budget for the financing of political or activist NGOs on its territory;

11. Amendement 17 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 81 a (new)

    Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Ajouté: 81 a. Discovers in a report by the US Congress published on 3 February 20266a that in more than 90 meetings organised under the Anti-Disinformation Code between 2022 and 2024, the Commission reportedly pressured platforms to change their global content moderation rules and censor more content; Under pressure from the European Commission, TikTok removed or restricted statements such as “We need to stop the sexualisation of children”, even though they were part of common political debate, in the lead-up to Slovakia’s 2023 national parliamentary elections; Learns that the Commission has reportedly interfered and put pressure on several digital platforms during elections in several Member States; Calls on the Commission to immediately clarify the resources involved in the 2024 budget and to present itself spontaneously to parliamentarians to respond to the serious accusations listed in the report; 6a https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2026-02/THE-FOREIGN-CENSORSHIP-THREAT-PART-II-2-3-26.pdf

12. Amendement 18 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 86 a (new)

    Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Ajouté: 86 a. Expresses its concern at the thousands of annual recourses to consultancy firms, totalling hundreds of millions of euros which cannot be quantified with certainty, for services which are not detailed or which do not fall within the Commission's system of financial transparency; - Recalls the McKinsey case in France during the COVID crisis and the suspicions of related conflicts of interest7a; - Fears the revelation of a new scandal about it; notes, for example, the obscure consultancy mission of EUR 3.2 million7b allocated to PwC for ‘building knowledge and exchanging experience: support to regions to address the division of talent and mitigate the challenges related to the decline of the tertiary-educated population’; - Is concerned that administrative tasks in the public interest are entrusted to private companies, as shown by the selection or screening of Bauhaus projects for the competent authorities, entrusted by DG REGIO to another firm for EUR 4 million in 20267c; 7a https://www.senat.fr/rap/r21-578-1/r21-578-124.html#toc363 7b 3 230 011.2 euros according to the data mentioned in the financial transparency system (https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/index_fr.html) 7c https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/715301-2025

13. Amendement 20 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 226 a (new)

    Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Ajouté: 226 a. Considers that any foreign country refusing the return of their criminals and offenders, as requested by a European Member State, should not be able to receive financial assistance from the European Commission;

14. Amendement 21 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 237 a (new)

    Déposé par Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez · PfE

    Ajouté: 237 a. Deplores the fact that the European Commission is regularly the subject of scandals: - Former Vice-President of the Commission for Foreign Affairs Mogherini resigned in 2025 on charges of corruption and suspicion of favouritism when awarding the tender of the EU Diplomatic Academy for the College of Europe, of which she later became director; - Former Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders is being investigated for money laundering using lottery tickets (potentially EUR 1 million); - The European Commission’s leniency towards its Director-General for Transport, who allegedly accepted free flights and shopping sessions from Qatar Airways in exchange for France’s secret contributions and was only dismissed in 2026; - The Commission’s decision to pay a seven-year leave with a total salary of EUR 1.5 million to one of its directors accused of rape, without any attempt to recover the funds after the final conviction; - The case of revolving doors in a gas company regarding an adviser to the Vice-President of the Commission responsible for the environment and the Green Deal; - Former European Commissioner and former French Finance Minister Thierry Breton (2019-2024) authorised to (re)integrate into Bank of America’s International Advisory Board, an activity that will occupy him 3 days a year and for which he has declared that he is not an employee, raising questions about his motivations and status; he takes over functions previously performed (2013-2019); - The scandal of the administration of the Trust Fund for Africa (EUR 5 billion), which led to double funding or disproportionate payments for projects, such as the purchase of blenders for schools without electricity; - The scandal of the European Commission funding NGOs to lobby and help it pass pseudo-climate legislation (Green Deal); - The waste by the European Commission of almost EUR 10 million for the so-called ‘European Koran’ project to rewrite European history and the funding of NGOs close to immigrationist, terrorist or Islamist movements; - The real estate fraud in the sale of EUR 1 billion of buildings belonging to the Commission revealed in 2026; - Notes that the EU disinfolab NGO sanctioned in 2022 by the Belgian Data Protection authority continues to receive European funds (>1,2 million euros in 2024) despite its administrative penalty for profiling activities and political listings on social networks against the GDPR regulation237a. Notes that 2 members of the Jourová cabinet met with this entity in 2024 to organise an event; - Notes that in the Pfizer case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on 17 July 2024 that the Commission did not give the public sufficiently broad access to contracts for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines237b; - Notes that in the case concerning text messages exchanged with Pfizer, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on 14 May 2025 that the Commission von der Leyen did not provide a plausible explanation to justify the non-possession of the requested documents or why it considered that the text messages exchanged in the context of the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines did not contain substantial information237c; 237a https://www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be/publications/decision-quant-au-fond-n-13-2022.pdf; https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/analysis.html ; https://transparency-register.europa.eu/search-register-or-update/organisation-detail_en?id=593474530364-05 ; https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101070093 237b https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-07/cp240113en.pdf#:~:text=Press%20and%20Information%20Unit,Auken%20and%20Others%20v%20Commission 237c https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2025-05/cp250060fr.pdf

15. Amendement 25 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 47 a (new)

    Déposé par Pasquale Tridico · The Left

    Ajouté: 47 a. Recalls the temporary “solidarity contribution” introduced by Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 during the energy crisis, which applied to profits exceeding by more than 20% the average taxable profits of the previous reference period; notes that this measure generated approximately EUR 28 billion in revenues across the Union in 2022 and 2023; calls on the Commission to propose a renewed and updated framework for such a contribution, based on the average taxable profits generated in the fiscal years 2022 to 2025, applying the same threshold and ensuring that the applicable rate is not lower than the rate applied under Regulation (EU) 2022/1854, in order to address continued risks of excess profits in the fossil fuel sector and to ensure a fair contribution to public finances;

16. Amendement 28 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 247 – point iv a (new)

    Déposé par Anthony Smith, Pasquale Tridico · The Left

    Ajouté: (iv a) take the necessary measures to ensure that trainees who find themselves in a situation where they have reasonable grounds to believe that there is a serious and imminent danger or an infringement of their moral integrity, their rights, or their dignity, may immediately withdraw from that situation until it has ended or until they have been duly informed that the reasonably presumed danger or violation no longer exists. Exercising this right has no effect on the continuation of the internship, unless the intern decides otherwise. Nor does it affect the intern’s evaluation or compensation;

17. Amendement 30 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 7 a (new)

    Déposé par Cristian Terheş, Dick Erixon, Kristoffer Storm +2 · ECR

    Ajouté: 7 a. Calls on the Commission to immediately publish the non-redacted versions of all the Advance Purchase Agreements and Purchase Agreements for the COVID-19 vaccines;

18. Amendement 31 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 6

    Déposé par Sarah Knafo · ESN

    … that the remaining 50 % of the funds must be disbursed before Supprimé: then Ajouté: the end of the RRF implementation period in December 2026; notes with concern … 578,2 billion at the end of 2024 and notes with concern the Supprimé: Court’s Ajouté: Court's estimates that this amount could reach EUR 900 billion by the end … sustainability of Union debt must be factored into all future budgetary decisions; Ajouté: considers that rising debt service costs represent a structural constraint on the Union budget and that restoring fiscal sustainability requires prioritising expenditure discipline over any increase in the overall level of Union spending or the creation of new tax resources at Union level;

19. Amendement 32 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 13

    Déposé par Sarah Knafo, Christine Anderson · ESN

    13. Supprimé: Recalls Ajouté: recalls that the Commission’s 2024 review of NGO grant agreements found no breaches of the law; Supprimé: nevertheless, Ajouté: stresses, however, that legality alone does not ensure sound financial management or safeguard institutional neutrality; underlines that any recipient of Union funding, including NGOs, should be subject to robust, proportionate and risk-based scrutiny and transparency Supprimé: requirements, in line with legal provisions and sound financial management; stresses that budgetary control, safeguards and transparency requirements must be applied in a neutral, proportionate and evidence-based way, ensuring that transparency and oversight apply effectively across all categories of beneficiaries and that the scrutiny is risk-based; Ajouté: requirements; considers that the use of Union funds to finance advocacy, lobbying or communication activities aimed at influencing Union institutions, legislative processes or electoral debate may constitute a circular use of public money incompatible with the principle of sound financial management, whereby Union funds are used to generate pressure on Union decision-making processes; calls on the Commission to exclude such activities from the scope of eligible expenditure and to introduce clear and enforceable contractual safeguards, full transparency of funded activities and deliverables, and effective ex post controls, including recovery of funds where such conditions are breached; emphasises that the lack of transparency undermines trust in the discharge process …

20. Amendement 35 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 68

    Déposé par Sarah Knafo · ESN

    … the importance of ensuring sufficient funding for Union R&I to boost the Supprimé: Union’s Ajouté: Union's sustainable prosperity and competitiveness; Ajouté: insists that Union research funding must be subject to strict relevance criteria directly linked to European industrial competitiveness and strategic autonomy, and considers that grants with no demonstrable connection to these objectives represent an unjustified use of taxpayers' money; highlights the importance of making full use of the Seal of Excellence …

21. Amendement 36 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 9

    Déposé par Mariusz Kamiński · ECR

    … and accountability, both in their current functions and in their previous roles; Ajouté: expresses concern that a former Commissioner for Justice has been charged with money laundering during his term of office in the Commission, and that further alarming reports regarding his links to Russia are currently under investigation by the Belgian authorities; calls on the Commission to cooperate closely with the Belgian authorities and to assess whether those issues may have been connected with the performance of the Commissioner’s duties; notes with concern that several senior management positions remained vacant in DG …

22. Amendement 37 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 108 a (new)

    Déposé par Joachim Stanisław Brudziński · ECR

    Ajouté: 108 a. Stresses that the SAFE instrument must never be treated as a tool of political struggle, used instrumentally against selected Member States; emphasises that the importance of security issues requires that all actions relating to defence financing remain free from biased assessments and attempts at interference that could weaken the capabilities of Member States in this area, particularly those on the eastern flank, which are most exposed to external threats;

23. Amendement 39 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 120 – point vii a (new)

    Déposé par Joachim Stanisław Brudziński · ECR

    Ajouté: (vii a) not to use the Conditionality Regulation as a tool of undue interference and pressure on Member States, nor to invoke the rule of law in a biased and political manner, which in fact leads to the erosion of that principle;

24. Amendement 40 · Proposition de résolutionAdopté

    Paragraph 160 – point vii a (new)

    Déposé par Joachim Stanisław Brudziński · ECR

    Ajouté: (vii a) introduce all possible measures aimed at reducing the adverse impacts of the EU-Mercosur agreement on European agriculture and the market position of European producers, and to reliably monitor the scale as well as the actual effects of these impacts;

25. Amendement 45 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 253

    Déposé par Joachim Stanisław Brudziński · ECR

    Supprimé: 253. Recalls that the RRF super milestones for Poland mandated specific reforms in the field of justice including firstly, the dismantling of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court and its replacement by an independent Chamber of the Supreme Court, and secondly, that all judges affected by the rulings of the Disciplinary Chamber had the right to have their case reviewed by the new Chamber within a clear timeframe; is concerned by the continued refusal of the Polish president to sign into law the reforms proposed in 2025 by the Polish Government and adopted by the Polish Parliament concerning the rule of law which aim to implement the recommendations of the European Commission regarding the fulfilment of the judicial milestones under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP); stresses that the fulfilment of judicial-independence milestones, in line with Union law, including the case-law of the European Court of Justice, is essential to ensure legal certainty and protect the Union budget; Ajouté: deleted

26. Amendement 46 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 253 a (new)

    Déposé par Joachim Stanisław Brudziński · ECR

    Ajouté: 253 a. Stresses that the recognition of Poland’s progress toward fulfilment of the rule-of-law super milestones and the consequent disbursement of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan - despite the lack of any substantial changes in the judiciary - demonstrates the political nature of the allegations made against Poland and the instrumental use of this mechanism by the Commission, which, by blocking the transfer of funds rightfully due to Poland, has led to a situation in which their full and rational expenditure before the deadline may become impossible.

27. Amendement 47 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 20 – point vi

    Déposé par Dick Erixon, Charlie Weimers, Cristian Terheş · ECR

    … full compliance with Union rules on integrity, conflicts of interest and sound Supprimé: administration; Ajouté: administration and to recall that the former Commissioner that attacked the leading free speech platform X and its owner Elon Musk is a former chief executive officer of a French technology firm and France's leading telecom operator;

28. Amendement 48 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 20 – point vii

    Déposé par Dick Erixon, Kristoffer Storm, BertJan Ruissen +4 · ECR

    (vii) Supprimé: adequately apply the control framework for the Union expenditure related to climate and biodiversity objectives, including a proportionate verification mechanism, timely reporting of project-level climate data and transparent communication on environmentally impacts, in line with the Court’s recommendations and with due regard for operational feasibility and economic competitiveness; improve the monitoring and reporting of results, beyond mere spending targets, with a view to maximising the impact of Union climate and biodiversity funding; Ajouté: forcefully deregulate in order to restore Europe's competitiveness and calls on the Commission to double down on efforts to reduce red tape, simplify and abolish unnecessary legislation and deliver on all outlined goals relating to simplification and deregulation resulting in a substantial reduction of the scope of the aquis and a corresponding revitalisation of European industry;

29. Amendement 49 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 20 – point x

    Déposé par Dick Erixon, Kristoffer Storm, Charlie Weimers +3 · ECR

    (x) Supprimé: continue the efforts made in Ajouté: focus on policies that reduce the cost of living including fuel and energy prices instead of wasting time and resources on gender budgeting and Supprimé: in tracking the impact of the Union budget in fostering gender equality;

30. Amendement 50 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 117

    Déposé par Dick Erixon, Cristian Terheş · ECR

    117. Notes Ajouté: with concern that the Commission allocated EUR 8 million in 2024 and EUR 20,9 million in Supprimé: 2025 Ajouté: 2025, representing an increase of 160 %, for calls for proposals for the production of content on Union affairs … a free, independent and pluralistic press is a cornerstone of democratic accountability; Supprimé: considers that Union support for media can contribute to strengthening media pluralism and informed public debate across the Union, provided that strict safeguards are in place to ensure full editorial independence and transparency; underlines the importance of transparency regarding all financial support, including grants, contracts and indirect funding provided to media organisations, and that such information should be easily accessible and clearly presented; Ajouté: stresses, however, that such funding risks creating structural financial dependency between media organisations that should serve as independent watchdogs and the institutions they cover; underlines that public trust in both media and EU institutions is undermined when journalists reporting on EU affairs receive direct or indirect funding from those institutions; calls on all EU institutions to cease direct funding of media production about EU affairs; further calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the Parliament and the Council, to establish a unified inter-institutional media transparency portal, easily accessible to the public, disclosing all media outlets receiving Union funds, including detailed data on sub-grants within consortia, so that citizens can identify the ultimate beneficiaries of Union media funding and verify that journalistic watchdogs remain transparent about their financial backing;

31. Amendement 51 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 171

    Déposé par Dick Erixon, Kristoffer Storm, BertJan Ruissen +2 · ECR

    … can support frontline Member States to ensure they have the resources for Ajouté: physical border barriers, infrastructure, facilities and installations necessary to secure the external borders of the …

32. Amendement 52 · Proposition de résolutionAdopté

    Paragraph 172 a (new)

    Déposé par Dick Erixon, Kristoffer Storm, Nicolas Bay +3 · ECR

    Ajouté: 172a. Honours the memory of Mateusz Sitek, a Polish border guard who was killed on 6 June 2024 while defending the Union's external border against a hybrid attack orchestrated by the Belarusian regime; stresses that the protection of the external borders of the Union is not an abstract policy objective but a matter of life and death for the men and women serving on the frontline; calls on the Commission to ensure that adequate financial and operational support is provided to frontline Member States facing hybrid threats at the Union's external borders;

33. Amendement 53 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 173

    Déposé par Dick Erixon, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Nicolas Bay +2 · ECR

    … and transit, in particular those neighbouring the Union in view of addressing Supprimé: irregular Ajouté: illegal migration at the source; underlines the need for adequate oversight and due …

34. Amendement 56 · Proposition de résolutionRejeté

    Paragraph 202

    Déposé par BertJan Ruissen, Dick Erixon, Charlie Weimers +2 · ECR

    … the Agency and the recommendations issued through the Colonna Report; notes that Supprimé: the Commission has been working with UNRWA, to enhance the neutrality processes and control systems in the Agency, in line with findings of the investigations by the UN OIOS and to monitor the application of the action plan presented by UNRWA; notes the Commission’s assessment that UNRWA remains committed to implementing the agreed recommendations as well as the fulfilment of all conditions agreed with the Union for continued funding in 2024; Ajouté: diversification of beneficiaries of Union funding for humanitarian aid in Gaza contributes to reducing dependence on UNRWA and offers prospects for phasing out support to UNRWA in the future; calls on the Commission to ensure diversification of beneficiaries of Union funding for humanitarian assistance in Gaza; encourages, in this regard, the Commission’s continued engagement and close monitoring to …