Report (2026/0196(BUD)) 15 October 2026

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

A-10-2026-0272-AM-032-041

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/32

Amendment 32

João Oliveira, Leila Chaibi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

(2026/0196(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13b. Believes that, in view of rising living costs and their substantial impact on the lives of workers and their families, rising inequality and social injustices, and the persistently high level of poverty and social exclusion, the 2027 budget needs to allocate significantly more resources to the European Social Fund Plus, so as to help Member States address these challenges;

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/33

Amendment 33

Valentina Palmisano, Giuseppe Antoci

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

(2026/0196(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13c. Stresses that cohesion policy must remain a core pillar of European integration and warns that rejecting these resources directly harms regions facing economic transition, job losses, and structural delays; calls for particular attention and dedicated, targeted measures to strengthen social cohesion, reduce economic, social and territorial disparities, and promote quality employment with fair wages, ensuring that tailored support is provided for vulnerable groups, workers facing economic transitions, and especially NEETs;

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/34

Amendment 34

João Oliveira, Estrella Galán, Leila Chaibi

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

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Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13d. Points out that, in 2025, 19,3 million children in the Union were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, representing 24,3% of children under the age of 18; believes, therefore, that the Union budget needs to step up efforts to eradicate poverty among children, including migrant children, children with disabilities, and children living in precarious family situations, strengthening the European Child Guarantee; recalls Parliament’s calls for the creation within the ESF+ of a specific budget line for the European Child Guarantee, with its own dedicated allocation;

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/35

Amendment 35

Pasquale Tridico

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

(2026/0196(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	14a. Calls for EUR 10 million in commitment appropriations for a pilot project testing a SURE-type mechanism in the automotive sector and its component supply chains, providing short-time work and wage support conditional on company transition agreements with trade unions ensuring job retention, paid retraining and productive investment in zero-emission mobility, including affordable vehicles and supplier conversion; calls for public monitoring and recovery of support where commitments are breached, and for safeguards against dividends, share buy-backs and relocation; considers this pilot a first step towards a two-year, EUR 100 billion European SURE instrument for the automotive transition;

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/36

Amendment 36

Giuseppe Antoci, Valentina Palmisano, Giorgos Georgiou, Manon Aubry

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

(2026/0196(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 – point b a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	(ba) Calls for dedicated and reinforced funding to rapidly scale up the rescEU firefighting fleet through the procurement, maintenance, and strategic deployment of firefighting aircraft such as Canadair and helicopters; insists that operational priority be given to Southern Europe’s island and peninsular regions, which stand on the frontlines of catastrophic mega-fires and the climate crisis;

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/37

Amendment 37

Valentina Palmisano, Giuseppe Antoci, Giorgos Georgiou, Leila Chaibi, Manon Aubry

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

(2026/0196(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 – point c a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	(ca) Calls for dedicated and reinforced resources within the EU4Health Programme to safeguard the mental health and well-being of young people and university students; insists that a guaranteed share of funding be earmarked to support the creation and deployment of a public, free, and easily accessible psychological, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial support network across educational institutions and universities, counteracting the profound impact of job precariousness, social isolation, and anxiety, with priority given to underserved and geographically disadvantaged regions;

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/38

Amendment 38

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

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Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	21a. Regrets cuts to EMFAF allocations in the successive EU budgets; recalls that fisheries, aquaculture and processing sectors are fundamental pillars of the economic, social and cultural fabric of Union coastal and island communities and that the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) is a fundamental funding programme for fishers and for the cohesion of coastal and island communities such as for the renewal of the Union’s fleet; calls for the 2027 budget to increase the allocations in the EMFAF to EUR 1 050 000 000 to enable the fisheries sector to address, in an ambitious and practical way, the increase in production costs faced by fisheries, in particular small-scale, artisanal and coastal fisheries; considers that EMFAF should contribute for a stable income and long-term future for fishers, for the establishment of compensation and income support mechanisms for fishers in the light of the instability of the profession, and to support an integrated maritime policy, protecting the outermost regions’ role and specific characteristics, and to contribute to protect sustainable marine ecosystems; insists that special attention must be devoted to the fishing fleet in order to improve safety and security including by fighting illegal fishery actions, working conditions, energy efficiency and sustainability, as well as to modernise and/or renew the fleet without increasing fishing capacity and in line with sustainability and energy transition safeguards;

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/39

Amendment 39

João Oliveira, Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

(2026/0196(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24a. Rejects the allocation of budgetary appropriations for militarism, in particular for war, armaments, military infrastructure, capacity and mobility; rejects the ongoing escalation of EU militarisation; calls for the reallocation of EU budget funds earmarked for militarisation programmes to support Member States in improving the economic and social situation on the basis of the principle of social and economic cohesion, to strengthen the response capacity of public services, particularly in the areas of health, education and social security, and to defend the right to decent and affordable housing for all; accordingly, rejects reinforcements and supports the deletion of the relevant appropriations for the European Defence Fund, Military Mobility, the European Defence Industry Programme and the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE);

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/40

Amendment 40

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

(2026/0196(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24b. Urges the Commission and the Member States to present a critical audit of current defence expenditure within the Union, detailing why European countries would be unable to defend themselves with budgets vastly superior to those of most of the world’s countries;

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15.10.2026 A10-0272/41

Amendment 41

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A10-0272/2026

Nils Ušakovs, Michalis Hadjipantela

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections

(2026/0196(BUD))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	24c. Firmly rejects any increase in military spending in the Union’s budget for 2027;

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