Discharge 2023: General budget of the EU - Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds

30.4.2025 A100074/48

Amendment 48

Arno Bausemer, Alexander Jungbluth, Milan Uhrík

on behalf of the ESN Group

Report A100074/2025

Niclas Herbst

Discharge 2023: General budget of the EU - Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds

(COM(2024)0272 – C10-0067/2024 – 2024/2019(DEC))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 145 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

145 a. Stresses that any funding under the NDICI should be made conditional on the effective implementation of repatriation agreements;

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30.4.2025 A100074/49

Amendment 49

Sarah Knafo

on behalf of the ESN Group

Report A100074/2025

Niclas Herbst

Discharge 2023: General budget of the EU - Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds

(COM(2024)0272 – C10-0067/2024 – 2024/2019(DEC))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 38 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

38 a. Is concerned about the increase in Union debt (+33% between 2022 and 2023), the amount of commitments still to be settled (€ 543 billion, or 157% of the Union debt) and the considerable increase in the cost of borrowing under NextGenerationEU; therefore calls on the Union to undertake significant spending cuts, particularly in its administrative budget, which exceeds €12 billion; calls on the Union to abandon any creation of taxes, duties or new resources which would inevitably increase the tax burden on Europeans;

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30.4.2025 A100074/50

Amendment 50

Sarah Knafo

on behalf of the ESN Group

Report A100074/2025

Niclas Herbst

Discharge 2023: General budget of the EU - Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds

(COM(2024)0272 – C10-0067/2024 – 2024/2019(DEC))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 38 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

38 b. Expresses its deep concern at the Commission's funding of campaigns promoting the wearing of the veil, in particular through slogans such as "freedom is in the hijab" and insists that, henceforth, no Union budget be allocated to campaigns encouraging, directly or indirectly, the wearing of veil;

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30.4.2025 A100074/51

Amendment 51

Sarah Knafo

on behalf of the ESN Group

Report A100074/2025

Niclas Herbst

Discharge 2023: General budget of the EU - Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds

(COM(2024)0272 – C10-0067/2024 – 2024/2019(DEC))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 57 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

57 a. Calls to lighten regulatory burden to facilitate private investment, particularly in the sector of defence, AI, semiconductors, chips, telecommunications, cloud, data and quantum computing;

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30.4.2025 A100074/52

Amendment 52

Sarah Knafo

on behalf of the ESN Group

Report A100074/2025

Niclas Herbst

Discharge 2023: General budget of the EU - Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds

(COM(2024)0272 – C10-0067/2024 – 2024/2019(DEC))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 124 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

124 a. Notes the growing trend towards relocating parts of the European Union's migration policy, and calls on the institutions to further develop this approach; calls for specific and sufficient funding to be allocated to the creation of return platforms outside the territory of the Union;

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