Report (COM(2025)0359 – C10-0147/2025 – 2025/2147(DEC))
Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council
A-10-2026-0258-AM-001-001
12.10.2026 A10-0258/1
Amendment 1
Ondřej Knotek
on behalf of the PfE Group
Report A10-0258/2026
Pasquale Tridico
(COM(2025)0359 – C10-0147/2025 – 2025/2147(DEC))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
| Motion for a resolution | Amendment |
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| 21. Stresses that, while unanimity voting remains a core principle of the Treaties, its application in certain circumstances and in critical policy areas can affect the Union's timelines and effectiveness, including by paralysing the Union’s decision-making process and thereby leaving it vulnerable to being blocked or prone to blackmail by individual Member States, particularly those that fail to respect the rule of law; calls for targeted Treaty reforms or, alternatively, practical improvements within the existing Treaty framework, in order to strengthen transparency, democratic decision-making, accountability and the efficiency of the Council's work; calls on the Council to follow up on previous Parliament resolutions calling for such reforms; | 21. Stresses that, while unanimity voting remains a core principle of the Treaties, and its recourse to it constitutes a legitimate expression of democratic accountability by Member States’ governments; underlines that any debate on decision-making efficiency must fully respect the Treaties and cannot undermine the principle of conferral between the Union and its Member States; |
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