2023 discharge: EU general budget - European Council and Council

30.4.2025 A10-0052/5

Amendment 5

Carla Tavares

on behalf of the S&D Group

Report A10-0052/2025

Joachim Stanisław Brudziński

2023 discharge: EU general budget - European Council and Council

2024/2021(DEC)

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22 a. Notes that the use of the unanimity voting procedure in the Council on certain policy areas can negatively affect the Union’s decision-making process and therefore making it prone to blackmailing by Member States, especially those who fail to respect the rule of law; calls on the Council to apply the qualified majority voting procedures whenever provided by the Treaties; notes that a shift to a qualified majority voting procedure in the Council may be one avenue towards more efficient policy-making;

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