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DRAFT REPORT (11547/2026 – C100218/2026 – 2026/0196(BUD))

On the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027

BUDG-PR-792176

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Nils Ušakovs (Section III – Commission)

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This is the Committee on Budgets' draft report on the Council's position on the 2027 draft general budget. It restores the cuts the Council proposes across the multiannual financial framework headings and adds reinforcements above the draft budget for many programmes. It restores the EUR 180 million cut to the EU Recovery Instrument interest line, isolates liquidity management costs in new budget lines, and calls for full mobilisation of the Ukraine Support Loan Instrument. It restores Council cuts under headings 1, 2b, 3, 4, 5 and 7 and increases several programmes above the draft budget, and reduces some lines to fund new liquidity management lines. It adopts a package of pilot projects and preparatory actions, reinforces payment appropriations on amended lines, and raises Parliament's own pension line by EUR 10 028 000. It also increases appropriations and staff for several other institutions above the draft budget for security, IT and operational needs.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes that Parliament restore the Council's cuts across the MFF headings, reinforce programmes above the draft budget, isolate EU Recovery Instrument and Ukraine Support Loan liquidity management costs in new budget lines, and increase appropriations and staff for several institutions.

Key points

  1. Recalls Parliament's 2027 budget priorities and sets out a position to finance them within current budgetary constraints.
  2. Notes the Council proposes to cut commitment appropriations by EUR 1 003,2 million and payment appropriations by EUR 501,8 million across the MFF headings.
  3. Notes the Council maintains appropriations for the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund and the Brexit Adjustment Reserve, and for the Ukraine Reserve without mobilising the Ukraine Support Loan Instrument.
  4. Disagrees with the Council's approach of creating margins by cutting programmes, and restores all the cuts to keep programmes properly resourced.
  5. Restores the EUR 180 million cut to the EU Recovery Instrument interest line and proposes that 65 % of cost overruns be financed from the instrument's decommitment compartment.
  6. Requests that the estimated EUR 350 million liquidity management cost for 2027 be isolated in a new budget line and financed solely from the EU Recovery Instrument decommitment compartment.
  7. Considers full mobilisation of the Ukraine Support Loan Instrument necessary for the EUR 1 115 000 000 entered in article 16 07 01.
  8. Calls for the estimated EUR 35 million Ukraine Support Loan liquidity management cost to be isolated in a new line and financed solely from that instrument, and moves EUR 1 million of administrative support to a new article.
  9. Restores Council cuts and increases programmes above the draft budget under headings 1, 2a, 2b, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, and modifies budgetary remarks.
  10. Reduces the EU Recovery Instrument line by EUR 350 000 000 and the support expenditure line by EUR 1 000 000, and creates new budget lines for liquidity management costs and EPPO receipts.
  11. Adopts a balanced package of pilot projects and preparatory actions and calls on the Commission to implement them swiftly and report on results.
  12. Increases Parliament's operational pension scheme line by EUR 10 028 000 above the draft budget, without affecting the 2 % limit for non-statutory expenditure.

Who is affected

  • EU programmes and funds under the MFF headings, which would receive restored and increased appropriations.
  • The Commission, which must provide timely information on NGEU borrowing costs and implement pilot projects and preparatory actions.
  • EU decentralised agencies, which would receive restored cuts and increases.
  • Other EU institutions, which would receive increased appropriations and staff for security, IT and operational needs.
  • The European Parliament, whose pension payments would be funded directly from its budget from 1 January 2027.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 1 003,2 million: Council's proposed cut to commitment appropriations across the MFF headings.
  • EUR 191 877,9 million: total commitment appropriations under the MFF headings after the Council's cut.
  • EUR 501,8 million: Council's proposed cut to payment appropriations across the MFF headings.
  • EUR 202 065,8 million: total payment appropriations under the MFF headings after the Council's cut.
  • EUR 180 million or 1,8 %: Council's proposed reduction of the EU Recovery Instrument financing cost line, to EUR 9,7 billion.
  • EUR 3 320 296 411: decommitment compartment of the EU Recovery Instrument.
  • EUR 350 million: estimated liquidity management cost for 2027 to be isolated in a new budget line.
  • EUR 1 115 000 000: appropriations entered in article 16 07 01 for the Ukraine Support Loan Instrument.

Legal basis: Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community.