On a revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world
BUDG-PR-766828
Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Siegfried Mureşan, Carla Tavares
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This draft report sets out Parliament's vision for the post-2027 long-term budget, covering spending priorities, flexibility, simplification, and financing.¶¶¶ It calls for a budget that boosts competitiveness, supports green and digital transitions, strengthens security and defence, and prepares for enlargement, while ensuring rule of law and transparency.¶¶¶ It insists on adequate resources, new own resources, and sustainable management of debt and liabilities, and stresses the need for close interinstitutional cooperation.¶¶¶
Committee position. The rapporteur proposes a resolution setting out Parliament's vision for the post-2027 MFF, emphasizing increased resources, flexibility, and alignment with strategic priorities.¶¶
Key points
- The post-2027 MFF must enable the Union to deliver on policy objectives, tackle challenges, manage debt sustainably, and respond to shocks and crises.¶
- All spending must be strategically aligned with EU aims, add tangible value, and be simpler, more transparent, and protected against misuse and fraud.¶¶
- Calls for significantly reinforced programmes like InvestEU and increased funding for research, innovation, and infrastructure, with a focus on cross-border connections.¶¶¶
- Stresses the need to support farming, fisheries, cohesion policy, and regions affected by Russia's war, including addressing housing crises and demographic change.¶¶¶
- Emphasizes continued support for green and digital transitions, including climate neutrality by 2050 and support for households through the Social Climate Fund.¶¶¶
- Calls for significantly more investment in security, defence, preparedness, and cybersecurity, including support for military mobility and external border protection.¶¶¶
- Insists on enhanced and predictable humanitarian aid, support for neighbourhoods, and preparation for enlargement with conditional financial support.¶¶¶
- Calls for a robust rule of law toolbox, strict application of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation, and measures to ensure beneficiaries are not penalized.¶¶¶
- Demands mainstreaming of climate, biodiversity, gender equality, and other objectives across the budget, with improved tracking methodologies.¶¶¶
- Calls for simplification, transparency, and full budgetisation of off-budget instruments, with a detailed breakdown by budget line.¶¶¶
- Insists on greater flexibility with in-built crisis response capacity, including two special instruments and a front-loaded Flexibility Instrument.¶¶¶
- Stresses the need for sustainable management of NGEU debt and other liabilities, and for new own resources to cover repayment costs.¶¶¶
Who is affected
- EU institutions and bodies will need sufficient staff and resources to implement policies effectively.¶¶
- Beneficiaries of EU funds, including local authorities and civil society, will benefit from simplification and protection in rule of law cases.¶¶
- Candidate countries, especially Ukraine, will receive pre-accession support and reconstruction aid.¶¶
- Member states bordering Russia will receive support for economic and social consequences of the war.¶
Figures and deadlines
- EUR 750 billion in 2018 prices was the NGEU investment capacity.¶
- EUR 750-800 billion per year is the investment gap for innovation and infrastructure between 2025 and 2030.¶
- EUR 500 billion is the defence spending gap for the next decade.¶
- 1.5 % of GDP per year is the additional investment needed for climate neutrality by 2050.¶
- EUR 20-30 billion a year from 2028 is the projected cost for NGEU capital and interest repayments.¶
Legal basis: Articles 311, 312, 323 and 324 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union¶