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REPORT (2024/2051(INI))

On a revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world

A-10-2025-0076

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Siegfried Mureşan, Carla Tavares

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Parliament's resolution on the post-2027 long-term budget insists the next MFF must have increased resources, moving away from the 1% of GNI limit, and must focus on European public goods. It rejects the 'one national plan per Member State' approach and the umbrella Competitiveness Fund, calling instead for a new instrument and full respect for Parliament's roles. It demands enhanced crisis response capacity, including two special instruments, and stresses that defence spending must not reduce cohesion or social spending. It calls for new own resources to repay NGEU borrowing and for joint borrowing as an option, and insists on rule of law conditionality and simplification for beneficiaries.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets proposes a resolution setting out Parliament's vision for the post-2027 MFF, insisting on increased resources, rejecting certain Commission proposals, and calling for reforms in spending focus, flexibility, and financing.

Key points

  1. Insists the next MFF must have increased resources compared to 2021-2027, moving away from the self-imposed 1% of GNI ceiling.
  2. Rejects the 'one national plan per Member State' approach for shared management, insisting on safeguarding Parliament's legislative, budgetary and discharge roles.
  3. Rejects the umbrella Competitiveness Fund merging existing programmes; instead calls for a new instrument based on lessons from InvestEU and the Innovation Fund.
  4. Calls for significantly increased funding for research and innovation, including basic research, and for achieving the 3% GDP target for R&D by 2030.
  5. Demands increased directly managed funding for energy, transport and digital infrastructure, with priority for cross-border connections.
  6. Stresses the need for a genuine Defence Union with increased investment, but insists defence spending must not reduce cohesion or social spending.
  7. Calls for enhanced in-built crisis response capacity, including two special instruments: one for natural disasters and one for general-purpose crisis response.
  8. Insists on a stronger link between rule of law and access to EU funds, and calls for strict application of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation.
  9. Calls for new own resources to be adopted urgently to repay NGEU borrowing, and considers joint borrowing a viable option for crisis response.
  10. Demands that NGEU repayment costs be treated distinctly from programme appropriations in the MFF architecture.
  11. Calls for simplification for beneficiaries, including harmonised rules and a single entry point, but not at the expense of transparency or Parliament's oversight.
  12. Calls for full budgetisation of off-budget instruments like the Social Climate Fund, Innovation Fund and Modernisation Fund.

Who is affected

  • Member states: next MFF will require higher contributions, moving away from 1% of GNI, and new own resources.
  • Regional and local authorities: to be fully involved in design and delivery of shared management spending.
  • Beneficiaries of EU funds: simplification of rules and reduced administrative burden.
  • Candidate countries, especially Ukraine and Moldova: pre-accession support to be distinct and additional, with loans backed by budgetary headroom.
  • European Commission: must ensure alignment with Financial Regulation recast and propose new IIA.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 750 billion in 2018 prices: NGEU additional investment capacity.
  • 1.1% of EU-27's GNI: Union budget amount.
  • 1.4% of GDP: average Member State spending on State aid in 2022.
  • EUR 750-800 billion per year: annual investment gap for innovation and infrastructure between 2025 and 2030.
  • 3% of GDP: target for research and development spending by 2030.
  • 1.5% of GDP per year: additional investment needs to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.
  • EUR 500 billion: defence spending gap for the next decade.
  • 1.4% of Union GDP: potential cumulated economic losses from natural disasters.

Legal basis: Articles 311, 312, 323 and 324 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union