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Report 2025/0326(BUD) 2025-12-10

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – Sweden

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11.12.2025 A10-0239/6

Amendment 6

Angéline Furet, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0239/2025

Aura Salla

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – Sweden

2025/0326(BUD)

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

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E. whereas Northvolt was specialised in architectural and engineering activities, technical testing and battery manufacturing; whereas the company filed for bankruptcy on 12 March 2025 due to production-related difficulties, in particular as a result of an oversupply caused by intense competition from imports originating mainly from China, which dominates the global market accounting for more than 80 % of global battery production;

E. whereas this bankruptcy marks the failure of the European Green Deal, as Northvolt was specialised in architectural and engineering activities, technical testing and battery manufacturing; whereas the company filed for bankruptcy on 12 March 2025 due to production-related difficulties, in particular as a result of an oversupply caused by intense competition from imports originating mainly from China, which dominates the global market accounting for more than 80 % of global battery production;

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11.12.2025 A10-0239/7

Amendment 7

Angéline Furet, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0239/2025

Aura Salla

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – Sweden

2025/0326(BUD)

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

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F. whereas Europe needs a strong and competitive battery industry to reduce harmful strategic dependencies and strengthen its industrial autonomy, as well as to achieve its climate and energy transition targets; whereas the batteries and supplier industry is facing high energy and capital costs, production delays, global market distortions, as well as increasing competitive pressure from third-country producers, particularly China7 ; whereas the current pace of transition in the automotive sector, combined with the intense international competition, is already creating significant challenges for part of Europe's industrial fabric and requires gradual adaptation in order to avoid job losses and to preserve the overall competitiveness of European industry; whereas transition policies must take into account consideration industrial and social realities in order to ensure accessible mobility for all Europeans;

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7 Commission work programme 2026, Europe's Independence Moment https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategy-documents/commission-work-programme/commission-work-programme-2026_en

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11.12.2025 A10-0239/8

Amendment 8

Angéline Furet, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0239/2025

Aura Salla

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – Sweden

2025/0326(BUD)

Motion for a resolution

Recital I

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I. whereas financial contributions from the EGF should be primarily directed at active labour market policy measures and personalised services that aim to reintegrate beneficiaries rapidly into decent and sustainable employment within or outside their initial sector of activity, while preparing them for a greener and more digital European economy;

I. whereas financial contributions from the EGF should be primarily directed at active labour market policy measures and personalised services that aim to reintegrate beneficiaries rapidly into decent and sustainable employment within or outside their initial sector of activity, based on the real needs of the local labour market and the aspirations of workers, while preparing them for a greener and more digital European economy;

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11.12.2025 A10-0239/9

Amendment 9

Angéline Furet, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0239/2025

Aura Salla

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – Sweden

2025/0326(BUD)

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

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5. Notes that as of August 2025 the American start-up Lyten, global leader in lithium-sulfur batteries, has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Northvolt’s remaining assets in Sweden, Germany and Poland by the end of 2025, and is planning to rehire the laid-off workforce taking into account the ability to offer them equivalent positions in the region; underlines that reemployment should be considered as a primary option and that all unused amounts should be paid back to the Commission in case of taking over; reaffirms the strategic importance of developing a robust battery manufacturing sector in Europe; regrets, however, that massive European public investment in Northvolt does not guarantee the sustainability of strategic assets within the Union; stresses, therefore, the need to strengthen the conditions for protecting and securing European technologies in industrial projects receiving public funding in order to ensure the future success of this sector;

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11.12.2025 A10-0239/10

Amendment 10

Angéline Furet, Nikola Bartůšek

on behalf of the PfE Group

Report A10-0239/2025

Aura Salla

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – Sweden

2025/0326(BUD)

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

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12. Stresses the urgent need for coherent and coordinated Union’s efforts to ensure competitiveness and strategic autonomy, developed in close partnership with the Member States and regions, in order to safeguard Europe’s future-proof industrial employment base that responds to the requirements of European industrial autonomy and strengthens the Union’s position in strategic sectors, such as the batteries and supplier industry, while advancing the Union’s green and digital transition; underlines that only a robust, resilient and sustainable European economy can effectively prevent large-scale redundancies, thereby reducing the need for EGF intervention in the first place; emphasises the need to ensure clear recognition and visibility of Union funding to highlight its added value and the European solidarity embodied by the EGF; calls for consistent and well-targeted communication to beneficiaries, regional and local authorities, social partners, the media, and the wider public; deplores that the Union battery industry suffers from subsidies Chinese government provides to its producers distorting global competition;

12. Stresses the urgent need for coherent and coordinated Union’s efforts to ensure competitiveness and strategic autonomy, developed in close partnership with Member States and regions, in order to safeguard Europe’s future-proof industrial employment base that responds to the requirements of European industrial autonomy and strengthens the Union’s position in strategic sectors, such as digital technologies and the battery industry; calls in the meantime for the suspension of the European Green Deal; underlines that only a robust, resilient and sustainable European economy can effectively prevent large-scale redundancies, thereby reducing the need for EGF intervention in the first place; emphasises the need to ensure clear recognition and visibility of Union funding to highlight its added value and the European solidarity embodied by the EGF; calls for consistent and well-targeted communication to beneficiaries, regional and local authorities, social partners, the media, and the wider public; deplores that the Union battery industry suffers from subsidies Chinese government provides to its producers distorting global competition;

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