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Report (11216/1/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD)) 2025-10-16

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

16.10.2025 A100192/42

Amendment 42

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/1/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
-1. whereas the European Union’s budget has a redistributive function as one of its main principles and it must therefore ensure that the Member States that have benefited most from the single market, the single currency and common policies throughout the integration process contribute more to the budget.

Or. pt

16.10.2025 A100192/43

Amendment 43

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1a (new)

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
-1a. whereas, according to the working document ‘The Redistributive Function of the EU Budget’1a, the EU budget currently has a limited redistributive impact, and rebates and other compensation mechanisms affecting the contributions of some Member States further reduce the redistributive impact of the EU budget;
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Pasimeni, P., & Riso, S. (2016). The Redistributive Function of the EU Budget (IMK Working Paper No. 174). Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Available at http://www.boeckler.de/imk_5016.htm

Or. pt

16.10.2025 A100192/44

Amendment 44

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1b (new)

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
-1b. Calls for the EU budget to be ramped up in an effort to tackle the socio-economic plight that peoples and Member States are facing, which has been compounded by, among other aspects, the spiralling cost of living;

Or. pt

16.10.2025 A100192/45

Amendment 45

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1c (new)

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
-1c. Calls, further, for the budget’s redistributive function to be stepped up, providing support for efforts to achieve real convergence in economic and social progress between Member States;

Or. pt

16.10.2025 A100192/46

Amendment 46

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1d (new)

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
-1d. Calls for the EU’s budget to fully harness the development potential of each country through public investment, by supporting and modernising productive and strategic sectors, investing in and boosting the efficiency of public services, creating jobs with rights and promoting full employment, combating poverty, social exclusion and inequality, conserving and restoring ecosystems, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and seeking to forge external relations rooted in solidarity, cooperation, mutual respect and peace;

Or. pt

16.10.2025 A100192/47

Amendment 47

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19a (new)

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
19a. Calls for the next EU budget to include an increase in the allocations intended for public investment in transport infrastructure and for the promotion of public transport and sustainable mobility; calls for account to be taken of the urgent need for support for local and regional transport infrastructure in the Member States, and not only for transnational connections, with a particular focus on rail infrastructure; is opposed to the use of the EU budget to strengthen public-private partnerships, to further privatisation or to open up the transport sector;

Or. pt

16.10.2025 A100192/48

Amendment 48

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26b (new)

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
26a. Regrets, therefore, the cuts, over the course of successive Multiannual Financial Frameworks, in the allocations earmarked for social, economic and territorial cohesion; Urges that these allocations be increased in the 2026 budget;

Or. pt

16.10.2025 A100192/49

Amendment 49

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26c (new)

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
26c. Calls for the next EU budget to include a programme protecting productive sectors and jobs, targeting those countries which, throughout the integration process, were the most disadvantaged by common policies, Economic and Monetary Union and the single currency;

Or. pt

16.10.2025 A100192/50

Amendment 50

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26d (new)

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
26d. Calls, furthermore, for the creation of additional and targeted EU funding for the expansion and requalification of public housing, the fight against speculation and the defence of the right to decent and affordable housing for all;

Or. pt

16.10.2025 A100192/51

Amendment 51

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100192/2025

Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections

(11216/2025 – C10-0206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26e (new)

Motion for a resolutionAmendment
26e. Calls for the principle of economic, social and territorial cohesion to be defined as a horizontal principle in the EU’s budget, making the assessment of the impact on cohesion between and within Member States of all expenditure, policies or actions a requirement, with the aim of promoting effective convergence in economic and social progress;

Or. pt