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Report (2024/2110(BUI)) 2025-03-26

Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III

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26.3.2025 A10-0042/29

Amendment 29

Karlo Ressler

on behalf of the PPE Group

Report A10-0042/2025

Andrzej Halicki

Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III

(2024/2110(BUI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Highlights, in the face of new challenges in internal and external security, the importance of ensuring proper implementation of the Asylum and Migration Pact, in full compliance with international human rights law, and of respecting the principles of solidarity and the fair sharing of responsibility; stresses that effective management and protection of the EU’s external borders, both land and maritime, are essential for maintaining the freedoms of the Schengen area and crucial for the security of the EU and its citizens; emphasises the need to better protect people from trafficking and enhance support to strengthen cross-border cooperation between the Member States and the Union in combating criminal networks, particularly those involved in migrant smuggling and human trafficking, so as to reinforce law enforcement and the judicial response to these criminal networks, as well as to support Member States facing hybrid threats, in particular the instrumentalisation of migrants as defined in the Crisis Regulation20;

11. Highlights, in the face of new challenges in internal and external security, the importance of ensuring proper implementation of the Asylum and Migration Pact, in full compliance with international human rights law, and of respecting the principles of solidarity and the fair sharing of responsibility; stresses that effective management and protection of the EU’s external borders, inland, air and maritime, are essential for maintaining the freedoms of the Schengen area and crucial for the security of the EU and its citizens; emphasises the need to better protect people by preventing trafficking and enhance support to strengthen cross-border cooperation between the Member States and the Union in combating terrorism, organised crime, drug trafficking and criminal networks, particularly those involved in migrant smuggling and human trafficking, so as to reinforce law enforcement and the judicial response to these criminal networks, as well as to support Member States facing hybrid threats, in particular the instrumentalisation of migrants on the Union’s borders as defined in the Crisis Regulation20;

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20 Regulation (EU) 2024/1359 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1147, OJ L, 2024/1359, 22.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1359/oj.

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26.3.2025 A10-0042/30

Amendment 30

Karlo Ressler

on behalf of the PPE Group

Report A10-0042/2025

Andrzej Halicki

Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III

(2024/2110(BUI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Recalls the vital role that the Integrated Border Management Fund, the Border Management and Visa Instrument (BMVI) and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund play in protecting external borders; calls, in addition, for appropriate funding for border protection capabilities, including physical infrastructure, buildings, equipment, systems and services required at border crossing points, as provided for in Annex III to the BMVI Regulation21, and for the requirements to be met in terms of reception conditions, integration, return and readmission procedure; reaffirms that cooperation agreements with non-EU countries in full respect of international law can help to prevent irregular migration and strengthen border security;

12. Recalls the vital role that the Integrated Border Management Fund, the Border Management and Visa Instrument (BMVI) and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund play in protecting external borders; calls, in addition, for adequate funding for border protection capabilities as an essential part of a comprehensive migration policy, including physical infrastructure, buildings, equipment, systems and services required at border crossing points, as provided for in Annex III to the BMVI Regulation21, and for the requirements to be met in terms of reception conditions, integration, return and readmission procedure; reaffirms that cooperation agreements on migration and asylum management with non-EU countries in full respect of international law can help to prevent and counter irregular migration and strengthen border security;

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21 Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2021 establishing, as part of the Integrated Border Management Fund, the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy, OJ L 251, 15.7.2021, p. 48, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/1148/oj.

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26.3.2025 A10-0042/31

Amendment 31

Karlo Ressler

on behalf of the PPE Group

Report A10-0042/2025

Andrzej Halicki

Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III

(2024/2110(BUI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12a. Stresses the importance of protecting the integrity of the EU’s asylum system and appropriate funding for border protection capabilities, including physical infrastructure, as an essential part of a comprehensive migration policy; underlines the need to counter hybrid threats, such as the instrumentalisation of migrants, as well as human trafficking and migrant smuggling, through strengthened border security;

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26.3.2025 A10-0042/32

Amendment 32

Karlo Ressler

on behalf of the PPE Group

Report A10-0042/2025

Andrzej Halicki

Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III

(2024/2110(BUI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12b. Stresses the need for Member States to put in place specific arrangements with third countries for the purpose of ensuring effective returns subject to the condition that international human right standards and the principle of non-refoulement are respected by the third country concerned;

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26.3.2025 A10-0042/33

Amendment 33

Karlo Ressler

on behalf of the PPE Group

Report A10-0042/2025

Andrzej Halicki

Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III

(2024/2110(BUI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19a. Recalls that families are the main pillar that supports the burden of social expenditure in the EU, especially those with children in their care; notes, at the same time, that families are also those who are suffering the most and enduring the consequences of the successive economic crises that we have suffered over the last 15 years; stresses, for all these reasons, that they must be the subject of special attention in the relevant aspects of the EU budget and of the European Pillar of Social Rights priorities;

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