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From · report parliamentary committee draft · 14 May 2025 BUDG-PR-773098 on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025 of the European Union for the financial year 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024
To · Plenary report · 26 Jun 2025 A-10-2025-0116 on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025 of the European Union for the financial year 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024
✦ In short · AI narration of the differences below, generated 4 Sept 2026

The changes add emphasis on legally binding commitments and expand the call for new own resources to address higher spending needs and geopolitical challenges. #4#5#6 The other changes are formal: capitalisation and punctuation updates. #1#2#3

3 changes of substance, plus 3 formal. Each change below carries a one-line ✦ note from the same model. Written from the two texts only — read the highlighted passages before relying on it.

The changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations (“having regard to …”), standard resolution paragraphs and punctuation-only edits are left out — they are in “Show every difference”.

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Change #4 Substance

Adds 'legally binding' to describe the roadmap and updates the reference to the Interinstitutional Agreement with its date.

7. Emphasises the need for sustainable revenue for the Union budget; deplores, therefore, the complete absence of progress in the Council on the reform of the own resources system in line with the spirit of the legally binding roadmap in the interinstitutionalInterinstitutional agreement;Agreement of 16 December 2020; recalls its position in support of the amended Commission proposals and urges the Council to adopt those proposals as a matter of urgency in order to diversify and consolidate the own resources available to the Union budget;

Change #5 Substance

Adds a clause stressing that new own resources must cover higher spending needs, including geopolitical challenges, and that new policies require new financial means.

8. Calls furthermore,furthermore on the Commission to continue efforts to identify additional innovative and genuine new own resources and other revenue sources beyond those specified in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020; stresses that new own resources are essential not only to enable repayment of NGEU borrowing, but to ensure that the Union is equipped to cover its the higher spending needs, in particular in the context of the multiple challenges the Union is currently facing, including the new geopolitical context; considers that all new Union policies and challenges must involve new financial means and additional fresh resources;

Change #6 Substance

Drops the phrase 'higher spending needs' from the end of paragraph 8.

higher spending needs;