RELAZIONE INTERLOCUTORIA sulla proposta di regolamento del Consiglio che stabilisce il quadro finanziario pluriennale per il periodo 2028-2034

Testo come pubblicato dal PE, in inglese.

1. Emendamento 1Respinta

   Recital O a (new)

   Presentato da Jonas Sjöstedt, Hanna Gedin, Merja Kyllönen +2 · The Left

   Aggiunto: Oa. whereas pursuant to the accession treaties of Sweden and Finland, the EU must promote the development and structural adjustment of the northern sparsely populated regions with extremely low population densities;

2. Emendamento 2Respinta

   Recital P a (new)

   Presentato da Anthony Smith, Manon Aubry, Damien Carême +2 · The Left

   Aggiunto: Pa. whereas the current market design has demonstrated structural shortcomings in ensuring stable, affordable and secure energy supply tailored to the essential needs of European citizens;

3. Emendamento 3Respinta

   Paragraph 2 a (new)

   Presentato da Manon Aubry, Anthony Smith, Emma Fourreau +3 · The Left

   Aggiunto: 2a. Calls for at least 50 % of total MFF expenditure to be dedicated to climate action and environmental objectives;

4. Emendamento 4Respinta

   Paragraph 2 b (new)

   Presentato da Manon Aubry, Anthony Smith, Emma Fourreau +4 · The Left

   Aggiunto: 2b. Calls for at least 15 % of total MFF expenditure to be dedicated to biodiversity protection;

5. Emendamento 5Respinta

   Paragraph 4

   Presentato da Valentina Palmisano · The Left

   … 1, based on the principles of shared management, multilevel governance and partnership; Aggiunto: stresses that regional chapters should include a dedicated health component, ensuring targeted investments to reduce regional inequalities in access to healthcare, particularly in less developed and structurally disadvantaged regions, including through measures that address health workforce shortages, infrastructure gaps and access to essential services;

6. Emendamento 6Respinta

   Paragraph 5

   Presentato da Valentina Palmisano · The Left

   5. Rimosso: Welcomes Aggiunto: Notes the significant reinforcement of the policies included in heading 2, in line … innovation, the twin transition, infrastructure, health and crisis preparedness, education and culture; Aggiunto: notes, with concern, that while new strategic policies, such as defence, are being reinforced as a priority, cohesion policy remains the least defended area of the budget;

7. Emendamento 8Respinta

   Paragraph 10

   Presentato da Valentina Palmisano · The Left

   … to specific needs within the EU following damage caused by natural disasters; Aggiunto: further notes that economically weaker regions disproportionately affected by natural disasters should receive tailored support to enable rapid recovery and preserve territorial cohesion;

8. Emendamento 10Respinta

   Paragraph 12

   Presentato da Leila Chaibi, Manon Aubry, Anthony Smith +3 · The Left

   … recipients are not penalised for rule of law breaches by their governments; Aggiunto: insists that access to EU funds be subject to strong social conditionality, including full respect for trade union rights, collective bargaining, equal pay, decent wages, occupational health and safety standards, and secure employment; calls for entities infringing labour or social rights to be excluded from accessing EU funds;

9. Emendamento 12Respinta

   Paragraph 26

   Presentato da Arash Saeidi, Anthony Smith, Manon Aubry +3 · The Left

   … that make agriculture more attractive to young people, women and new farmers; Aggiunto: stresses the need to better target aid through effective capping and greater degressivity of direct payments, as well as for a shift towards support based on employment, added value and environmental services; insists that remunerative prices be guaranteed by strengthening farmers’ bargaining power and regulatory mechanisms; highlights farmers’ health and the need for preventive measures; calls for generational renewal to be ensured through better access to land, finance and stable incomes; lastly, emphasises the key role of training and advice in supporting the transition to sustainable systems; calls for comprehensive controls of all beneficiaries, with reinforced risk-based inspections, particularly in high-risk contexts such as subcontracting chains and seasonal work, without limiting controls to these cases; calls for proportionate sanctions, including the suspension of payments, the recovery of funds and temporary exclusion from support, in cases of non-compliance;

10. Emendamento 13Respinta

    Paragraph 26

    Presentato da Kathleen Funchion · The Left

    … reinforcement of measures that guarantee the viability of rural areas, also through Rimosso: LEADER Aggiunto: a ring-fenced budget for LEADER available in all rural areas and community-led local development; underlines that addressing climate, environmental, biodiversity loss and …

11. Emendamento 15Respinta

    Paragraph 26 b (new)

    Presentato da Giuseppe Antoci · The Left

    Aggiunto: 26b. Calls for the next MFF to strengthen investments in traceability, origin labelling, controls on imported products and anti-fraud technologies in the agri-food sector, in order to protect consumers, safeguard quality European production and ensure fair conditions of competition for European farmers;

12. Emendamento 17Respinta

    Paragraph 36 a (new)

    Presentato da Jonas Sjöstedt, Hanna Gedin, Merja Kyllönen +2 · The Left

    Aggiunto: 36a. Acknowledges the specific structural challenges hindering development in the northern sparsely populated areas, including remoteness, very low population densities, difficult accessibility, and higher infrastructure and service costs; highlights their strategic role in the European Arctic as the EU’s northern and eastern frontier, and their importance for strategic autonomy and the green transition; stresses that sustaining local communities is vital for the EU and for maintaining a low-tension Arctic; calls, therefore, for the reinstatement of additional financial support, to be reflected in national plans, and for targeted measures addressing their specific constraints through regional chapters;

13. Emendamento 18Respinta

    Paragraph 37 a (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira, Leila Chaibi, Anthony Smith +6 · The Left

    Aggiunto: 37a. Calls, furthermore, for the creation of additional, dedicated EU funding, amounting to at least EUR 35 billion, to support national investment policies aimed at expanding and renovating public housing stock, combating real estate speculation, and safeguarding the right to decent and affordable housing for all; calls for strengthened protection of tenants’ rights, ensuring stable and long-term tenancy relationships, rent caps, and measures to prevent evictions;

14. Emendamento 19Respinta

    Paragraph 38

    Presentato da João Oliveira, Anthony Smith, Valentina Palmisano +6 · The Left

    38. Rimosso: Calls Aggiunto: Expresses deep concern that the lack of ring-fenced funding for the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) Aggiunto: renders the 14 % social target purely aspirational rather than binding; strongly maintains the view that this structural flaw exposes social policies to constant budgetary pressure, thereby eroding the fund’s specific purpose; calls, therefore, for the ESF+ to remain a stand-alone and separate programme Aggiunto: outside the NRPP with a dedicated financial envelope of EUR Rimosso: 124.19 Aggiunto: 198 billion in current prices (equivalent to EUR Rimosso: 110.73 Aggiunto: 177 billion in 2025 constant prices) for promoting upwards social convergence, quality employment … that the ESF remains a key financing instrument for investing in education, Rimosso: employment Aggiunto: employment, quality job creation, quality working conditions, and reinforcing the workforce and skills development, fostering equality and providing for people in vulnerable situations …

15. Emendamento 20Respinta

    Paragraph 38 a (new)

    Presentato da Pasquale Tridico · The Left

    Aggiunto: 38a. Calls for a dedicated Just Transition Support Facility within the ESF+ to support workers and firms in sectors undergoing severe structural transformations – including, but not limited to, the AI, automotive, steel, chemicals and traditional energy sectors – with a dedicated allocation of resources of at least EUR 15 billion, in 2025 constant prices, over the 2028-2034 period; insists that this facility should fund targeted requalification, reskilling and upskilling programmes, income replacement support during transition, outplacement and entrepreneurship assistance, and regional economic diversification plans developed in close partnership with social partners, regional authorities, sectoral associations and workers’ representatives; stresses that the automotive sector, in particular, requires urgent dedicated support, given the accelerating shift to zero-emission mobility, which is causing significant structural unemployment in traditional manufacturing regions across the EU; underlines that a just and socially inclusive transition is not only a matter of workers’ rights, but is also essential for maintaining public support for the twin transition and for achieving the EU’s climate and competitiveness objectives without leaving communities behind;

16. Emendamento 21Respinta

    Paragraph 39

    Presentato da João Oliveira, Damien Carême, Manon Aubry +4 · The Left

    39. Underlines that the MFF must support Rimosso: the complete and swift implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum to Aggiunto: and ensure adequate reception conditions, Rimosso: fast and efficient asylum procedures, integration, and return and readmission procedures, Aggiunto: asylum procedures and integration, in full compliance with international human rights law; insists that the next MFF must provide the necessary resources to adequately address Rimosso: the major challenges of the Union in the field of asylum, Rimosso: migration, integration, border management and internal security, and the effective protection of the EU’s external borders, including for border infrastructure, as well as physical, electronic and intelligence measures, when and where relevant; considers that Aggiunto: migration and integration; considers the proposal put forward by the Commission does not adequately respond to these requirements and calls for an increase in the amounts for Rimosso: asylum and migration policies, border management and security to EUR 38.04 billion in current prices (equivalent to EUR 34.00 billion in 2025 constant prices); Aggiunto: asylum; calls for the expansion of direct funding streams within the EU Rimosso: Facility Aggiunto: facility for local and regional authorities, building upon the model of the current thematic facility of the Rimosso: Asylum, Aggiunto: Asylum Migration and Integration Fund;

17. Emendamento 25Respinta

    Paragraph 45

    Presentato da Valentina Palmisano, Anthony Smith, Manon Aubry +4 · The Left

    … that the proposal for the 2028-2034 MFF does not include a stand-alone Rimosso: instrument Aggiunto: instrument, thereby disregarding Parliament’s position in favour of a Just Transition Fund II as expressed in its recent own-initiative resolution; calls for the next MFF to restore this ambition and ensure that relevant funds support a just transition through dedicated and territorially focused mechanisms; and calls for relevant funds under the next MFF to nevertheless support … the need for synergies and complementarity among cohesion policy funds and the Rimosso: ECF; Aggiunto: Competitiveness Fund; highlights, in particular, the fact that the green and digital transition is generating new and evolving occupational risks; calls, therefore, for relevant funds under the next MFF to support the prevention of work-related accidents and diseases, the adaptation of workplaces, the protection of workers from hazardous substances, extreme temperatures and psychosocial risks, as well as training and reskilling measures that integrate occupational safety and health from the outset;

18. Emendamento 26Respinta

    Paragraph 46

    Presentato da Danilo Della Valle, João Oliveira, Marc Botenga +1 · The Left

    Rimosso: 46. Stresses the need to step up Europe’s industrial and technological defence base; recalls that defence industrial policy must be open and foster competition, and that dual-use technologies, military mobility and critical infrastructures are pillars of the Union’s geopolitical projection and European deterrence; calls for clearly identifiable and adequately funded defence-related allocations; calls for any defence-relevant investments, including under the NRPP, to follow coherent eligibility criteria, including requirements related to clear European added value and coherent with the principles of European preference, interoperability, security of supply and industrial resilience; Aggiunto: deleted

19. Emendamento 28Respinta

    Paragraph 47

    Presentato da Anthony Smith, Manon Aubry, Damien Carême +3 · The Left

    … innovation across the whole Union and to fully unlock Europe’s talent potential; Aggiunto: notes that the Horizon Europe programme funds research projects by Israeli companies involved in the genocide in Gaza, in contravention of Article 2 of the Association Agreement between the EU and Israel, which stipulates that the application of the provisions of the Agreement is conditional on respect for human rights; calls for the withdrawal of this funding.

20. Emendamento 29Respinta

    Paragraph 47 a (new)

    Presentato da Dario Tamburrano · The Left

    Aggiunto: 47a. Calls for increased funding for research and innovation to include a strong component dedicated to sustainable agriculture, reducing water consumption and chemical inputs, improving soil fertility, developing crops resilient to climate change, and promoting the circular economy, energy efficient production processes and technologies accessible to SMEs and farmers;

21. Emendamento 30Respinta

    Paragraph 48

    Presentato da Arash Saeidi, Anthony Smith, Manon Aubry +2 · The Left

    … its contribution to boosting economic growth, jobs, and competitiveness in the EU; Aggiunto: stresses that investment in transport infrastructure should contribute to a modal shift towards sustainable and low-carbon modes; notes that the clean energy transition, and cross-border structural investment to improve …

22. Emendamento 31Respinta

    Paragraph 48 a (new)

    Presentato da Dario Tamburrano · The Left

    Aggiunto: 48a. Calls for the next MFF to prioritise investments in smart electricity grids, storage, interconnections, collective self-consumption and renewable energy communities, in order to contribute to the structural reduction of energy costs for households, public authorities, farmers, SMEs and energy-intensive industries, while strengthening the Union’s energy autonomy and accelerating the integration of renewable energy into the internal energy market;

23. Emendamento 32Respinta

    Paragraph 50

    Presentato da Anthony Smith, Manon Aubry, Damien Carême +3 · The Left

    … the resilience of health systems, support and retain a skilled health workforce, Aggiunto: and reduce inequalities in access to care across Rimosso: Member States and Aggiunto: and within Member States, with a particular focus on less developed regions and areas affected by structural shortages of healthcare professionals; calls for targeted Union support to strengthen the recruitment, retention and fair distribution of the healthcare workforce, including incentives for deployment in underserved regions, and to ensure the Union’s preparedness for future health crises; expresses strong concern about … of funding to be earmarked under the ECF for specific EU4health priorities; Aggiunto: stresses that these priorities should explicitly include occupational safety and health, in particular the prevention of work-related diseases, including occupational cancers, the prevention of psychosocial risks and work-related mental health problems, early detection and diagnosis, improved data collection, and support for the exchange of best practices between Member States on safe and healthy workplaces;

24. Emendamento 33Respinta

    Paragraph 55

    Presentato da Arash Saeidi, Anthony Smith, Manon Aubry +2 · The Left

    … particular in light of emerging challenges, including online crime and hate speech; Aggiunto: regrets that the Justice Programme does not contain a percentage breakdown of the allocation of funds to each specific objective, such as judicial cooperation, the promotion of the rule of law, judicial training, access to justice, and digitalisation; calls for budget lines to be broken down accordingly and for the reintroduction of minimum allocation shares according to the specific objective;

25. Emendamento 34Respinta

    Paragraph 71

    Presentato da Pasquale Tridico · The Left

    … Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Council of Europe Development Bank; Aggiunto: urges the EIB to take all necessary measures to ensure that its financing, including in relation to Israeli companies, is consistent with the Union’s commitment to international law and human rights;

26. Emendamento 37Respinta

    Paragraph 91

    Presentato da Anthony Smith, Manon Aubry, Damien Carême +2 · The Left

    … Union law, the conventions of the International Labour Organization, and collective agreements, Aggiunto: including occupational health and safety requirements, taking into account the principle of gender equality and without doing significant harm to the environmental objectives of the Union; Aggiunto: stresses that access to Union funds should be conditional on compliance with applicable labour and occupational health and safety law and that serious or repeated breaches should give rise to proportionate corrective measures, including suspension, recovery or exclusion, where appropriate;

27. Emendamento 38Respinta

    Paragraph 100

    Presentato da Giuseppe Antoci · The Left

    … ensuring democratic control, transparency and the protection of the Union’s financial interests; Aggiunto: insists, in this regard, on the implementation of mandatory preventive mechanisms and screening measures for all participants in EU-funded projects, regardless of the financial value involved; underlines that such rigorous scrutiny must include systematic ex ante verification, anti-mafia certification and due diligence on ownership structures to prevent any infiltration by organised crime groups;

28. Emendamento 39Respinta

    Paragraph 120 a (new)

    Presentato da Pasquale Tridico · The Left

    Aggiunto: 120a. Calls for an assessment of the feasibility of introducing a harmonised mechanism for taxing exceptional profits in the energy sector as a potential new own resource, provided that the resulting revenues are used to alleviate energy costs for households and SMEs and to advance the Union’s objectives on renewable energy and energy transition;

29. Emendamento 40Respinta

    Paragraph 121 a (new)

    Presentato da Manon Aubry, Anthony Smith, Damien Carême +2 · The Left

    Aggiunto: 121a. 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 latest Oxfam study, the poorest half of people in the Union (181 million adults) have the same share of Europe’s wealth as the richest 0.001 % (3 600 adults); recalls that, according to the latest Commission Eurobarometer, 65 % of Europeans support the introduction of a tax for the wealthiest individuals; calls on the Commission, therefore, to make a new proposal to introduce a minimum tax of 2 % on the wealth of people owning more than EUR 100 million, known as the ‘Zucman tax’, as an EU own resource, which could raise EUR 67 billion according to the EU tax observatory;

30. Emendamento 41Respinta

    Paragraph 121 b (new)

    Presentato da Manon Aubry, Anthony Smith, Damien Carême +2 · The Left

    Aggiunto: 121b. Underlines that the Commission needs to take further timely actions to increase the EU’s own resources and to fight tax avoidance; recalls that, according to the EU Tax Observatory, multinational enterprises (MNEs) booked USD 1 trillion in profits in tax havens in 2022, half of which were in tax havens in the EU; calls on the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to collect the tax deficit of MNEs, that is 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;

31. Emendamento 42Respinta

    Paragraph 121 c (new)

    Presentato da Manon Aubry, Anthony Smith, Damien Carême +2 · The Left

    Aggiunto: 121c. Highlights the fact that, according to Greenpeace, during the first three weeks of the war, from 2 to 23 March 2026, oil producers widened their profit margins, thereby generating excess profits amounting to EUR 81.4 million per day across Europe, including EUR 11.6 million per day in France; notes that refining margins in France rose from EUR 41 per tonne to EUR 160 per tonne between 1 February and 1 March 2026, representing a fourfold increase; further notes that TotalEnergies pursued an aggressive speculative strategy by purchasing in March almost all crude oil cargoes produced in the United Arab Emirates and Oman for loading in May, a transaction which, as oil prices increased, is estimated to have generated EUR 1 billion in profits without creating any added value; recalls that five Member States have called for a windfall tax; calls on the Commission, therefore, to make a new proposal for an own resource based on the permanent taxation of the windfall profits of multinational enterprises in all sectors, especially the energy sector;

32. Emendamento 43Respinta

    Paragraph 121 d (new)

    Presentato da Manon Aubry, Anthony Smith, Damien Carême +2 · The Left

    Aggiunto: 121d. Recalls that according to Oxfam, 31 of the EU’s wealthiest individuals each emit 3 469 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year through the use of their superyachts and jets alone; recalls that this figure is 432 times more than the emissions of 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 sports utility vehicles, as a new own resource; recalls that such a tax would be socially just and help mitigate climate change, and could be more effective than a classic carbon tax;

33. Emendamento 44Respinta

    Paragraph 121 e (new)

    Presentato da Manon Aubry, Anthony Smith, Damien Carême +2 · The Left

    Aggiunto: 121e. Recalls that the Commission needs to take further timely action to increase the EU’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 that could raise more than EUR 50 billion per year, based on the details of the financial transaction tax that should have been implemented under enhanced cooperation according to the 2013 agreement;

34. Emendamento 45Respinta

    Paragraph 121 f (new)

    Presentato da Manon Aubry, Anthony Smith, Damien Carême +2 · The Left

    Aggiunto: 121f. Calls on the Commission to introduce a tax on ecological and social dumping at the borders of the European Economic Area as a new own resource, covering all sectors of activity such as raw materials and finished and semi-finished products;

35. Emendamento 48Respinta

    Recital A

    Presentato da Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    … the Union must provide itself with the necessary means to attain its Rimosso: objectives and carry through its policies; Aggiunto: objectives, while fully respecting the budgetary autonomy of the Member States and the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;

36. Emendamento 49Respinta

    Recital C

    Presentato da Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    … lack of resources continues to undermine the current MFF to this day; Aggiunto: whereas, however, exceptional financing instruments cannot be made permanent as a result of transitional measures;

37. Emendamento 50Respinta

    Paragraph 2

    Presentato da Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    2. Calls for the 2028-2034 MFF to be Rimosso: set at 1.27 % of EU gross national income (GNI), while the NGEU debt servicing – equivalent to an additional 0.11 % of EU GNI – should be excluded from the 1.27 % and accounted for over and above the ceilings; reiterates that the next MFF must be more ambitious in size, as the current level of financing does not match the Union’s political ambitions, and must be protected from inflationary shocks; stresses that this level constitutes the minimum necessary to enable the Union to deliver on its Treaty commitments, respond to citizens’ expectations, and address major challenges, including the return of large-scale warfare in the EU’s neighbourhood, evolving security threats, a highly challenging economic and social backdrop, a competitiveness gap and the worsening climate and biodiversity crises; Aggiunto: implemented with strict budgetary discipline and without any automatic increase in the own resources ceilings, and to ensure that additional spending is carried out only if it delivers clear European added value and does not place any permanent burden on the national budgets;

38. Emendamento 51Respinta

    Paragraph 13 a (new)

    Presentato da Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    Aggiunto: 13a. Strongly opposes the introduction of new own resources; believes that, at a time of rising prices and declining purchasing power, new taxes must not be imposed on citizens and businesses;

39. Emendamento 52Respinta

    Paragraph 80

    Presentato da Alexander Jungbluth, Stanisław Tyszka · ESN

    80. Rimosso: Recalls that the current MFF has been underfunded, which required an MFF revision in 2024; notes that while there is increased flexibility in Aggiunto: Notes that, despite its flexibility, the 2028-2034 MFF Rimosso: proposal, Aggiunto: proposal provides for a disproportionate increase in the EU budget and that the overall amounts Rimosso: in the Commission proposal are still not sufficient; Aggiunto: proposed are excessive;

40. Emendamento 67Respinta

    Paragraph 26 e (new)

    Presentato da Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Aggiunto: 26e. Expresses its deep concern over the Commission’s plan to make agricultural support conditional on compliance with the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation; recalls that previous approaches have revealed a lack of objectivity on the part of the Commission towards certain Member States; warns that such decisions may have a direct and negative impact on farmers’ incomes in the Member States in question;

41. Emendamento 70Respinta

    Paragraph 36 a (new)

    Presentato da Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Aggiunto: 36a. Categorically rejects plans to remove the POSEI scheme, which constitutes a vital pillar of support for the outermost regions; points out that POSEI was set up in an attempt to address the permanent structural constraints faced by the outermost regions, such as remoteness, insularity and economic dependence, in accordance with Article 349 TFEU; stresses that the outermost regions require dedicated, stable and predictable funding instruments in order to safeguard food security and the viability of local agriculture; calls on the Commission to keep POSEI as a separate instrument with proper and clearly identifiable ring-fenced funding, and to refrain from merging the programme in any way, which could risk undermining its effectiveness, clarity and scope, to the detriment of the outermost regions;

42. Emendamento 71Respinta

    Paragraph 39 a (new)

    Presentato da Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Aggiunto: 39a. Stresses that EU migration and asylum policy must be underpinned by strong action against illegal migration, and that adequate funding for combating illegal migration and violations of the EU’s external borders remains essential to addressing evolving challenges; calls for EU funds to be allocated as a priority to strengthening return and repatriation measures and to securing the EU’s external borders, including by constructing and reinforcing physical barriers, in order to ensure more effective, coherent and consistent management of migration-related challenges;

43. Emendamento 72Respinta

    Paragraph 39 b (new)

    Presentato da Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Aggiunto: 39b. Recalls that some Member States have implemented effective border-protection systems against illegal migration; condemns the fact that this effort is punished by the politically biased Commission and Court of Justice of the EU; calls for the EU institutions to abandon the Pact on Migration and Asylum or grant an opt-out from the pact to the Member States;

44. Emendamento 75Respinta

    Paragraph 65 b (new)

    Presentato da Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Aggiunto: 65b. Warns about the worrying reported levels of corruption in Ukraine; reaffirms its opposition to Ukraine’s fast-track accession to the EU, as the current climate in the country is incompatible with the principles of the Copenhagen Criteria; points out that Ukraine’s accession to the EU would lead to irreversible damage for European agriculture;

45. Emendamento 79Respinta

    Paragraph 107 a (new)

    Presentato da Tamás Deutsch, Julien Sanchez, Angéline Furet · PfE

    Aggiunto: 107a. Condemns the fact that the Commission has clearly demonstrated double standards for Member States when it comes to rule of law standards and has used it in a manner detrimental to Member States with conservative governments; notes that the Commission unfroze the EU funds for Poland following the election of a party belonging to the ruling European political family, despite the fact that no new legislation had been adopted; strongly condemns the fact that leaders of right-wing parties have been banned from running for office and judicially persecuted; condemns the attempts to imprison political leaders for defending the borders of their respective countries; denounces the physical intimidation and judicial persecution used against politicians for holding views that challenge the EU mainstream;

46. Emendamento 85Respinta

    Paragraph 11 a (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira · The Left

    Aggiunto: 11a. Argues that EU funds must be tailored to the needs, priorities and development strategies of each Member State; rejects, therefore, ‘conditionality’ mechanisms or the logic of financing ‘reforms’ pre-determined by the EU, and which cut across a range of instruments and policies, particularly in the allocation of funds; rejects any link between the use and disbursement of funds and economic governance instruments, in particular the European Semester and its country-specific recommendations;

47. Emendamento 86Respinta

    Paragraph 12 a (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira · The Left

    Aggiunto: 12a. Considers that the size of the long-term EU budget and its sources of funding must be linked to its redistributive nature, based on each Member State’s gross national income, and aligned with the objectives of economic, social and regional cohesion and the Member States’ needs, priorities and development strategies; calls, therefore, for the scrapping of rebates for certain Member States to be maintained throughout the negotiation process; opposes the introduction of new own resources;

48. Emendamento 87Respinta

    Paragraph 21 a (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira · The Left

    Aggiunto: 21a. Calls for the multiannual financial framework 2028-2034 to provide for a level of allocations commensurate with that of the 2021-2027 MFF, i.e. at least 65 % of the total budget and EUR 1.162 billion.

49. Emendamento 88Respinta

    Paragraph 21 b (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira · The Left

    Aggiunto: 21b. Opposes the creation of NRPPs; opposes the proposal to consolidate the Commission’s discretionary powers over the approval of plans, their implementation and the allocation of funds;

50. Emendamento 89Respinta

    Paragraph 38 a (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira · The Left

    Aggiunto: 38a. Considers that the success of the strategy to combat poverty with a view to its eradication depends, among other matters, on it receiving a suitable level of funding, for which the EU budget must be drawn on; calls for the creation, within the European Social Fund+, of a specific funding line for the eradication of poverty, amounting to at least EUR 50 billion; takes the view that this specific funding for eradicating poverty does not preclude the disbursement of amounts from other funds or programmes geared towards objectives directly or indirectly related to poverty, particularly in the areas of housing, child and youth protection, migration and combating inequality and discrimination;

51. Emendamento 90Respinta

    Paragraph 39 a (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira, Marc Botenga · The Left

    Aggiunto: 39a. Opposes the possible use of funds allocated to Heading 1 – particularly those intended for economic, social, and territorial cohesion – to finance militarisation and the arms race, including the financing of ‘dual-use goods’;

52. Emendamento 91Respinta

    Paragraph 40 a (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira, Marc Botenga · The Left

    Aggiunto: 40a. Recalls that the development of political solutions designed to achieve peace, collective security and cooperation are the benchmarks for political and diplomatic action, involving the rejection of militarism and the arms race and insistence on compliance with the principles of the UN Charter and international law; deplores the ongoing escalation of EU militarisation;

53. Emendamento 92Respinta

    Paragraph 40 b (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira, Marc Botenga · The Left

    Aggiunto: 40b. Opposes, therefore, the increase in budgetary appropriations for militarism – including for war, weapons and military infrastructure, capacity and mobility; calls for EU budget funds earmarked for militarisation programmes to be reallocated towards supporting Member States in their efforts to improve economic and social conditions, showing due regard for the principle of economic, social and territorial cohesion and the achievement of convergence in progress;

54. Emendamento 93Respinta

    Paragraph 40 c (new)

    Presentato da João Oliveira · The Left

    Aggiunto: 40c. Opposes the establishment of the so-called Competitiveness Fund, as it is an instrument designed to transfer resources to large economic and financial groups and multinationals, to militarism and war, to the liberalisation of markets and the financialisation of the economy, and to the commodification of the environment; argues, conversely, that these funds should be directed towards supporting the modernisation of the Member States’ industrial sectors, towards providing essential support to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) as pillars of economic development, social cohesion, the creation of jobs with rights and the reduction of external dependencies, and towards fostering a healthy and ecologically balanced environment;