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DRAFT OPINION (2025/2246(BUI))

On the guidelines for the 2027 budget – Section III

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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs · Rapporteur: Romana Tomc

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The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs calls on the Committee on Budgets to incorporate its views into the resolution on the 2027 budget. It stresses persistent socio-economic challenges and the role of EU social programmes. It urges better use of EU funds, support for vulnerable groups, responses to demographic ageing, investment in skills, and adequate resources for social agencies.

Committee position. The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs proposes that the Committee on Budgets incorporate these points into its motion for a resolution on the 2027 budget.

Key points

  1. Underscores persistent socio-economic challenges including economic decline, demographic change, unemployment, poverty, and housing affordability.
  2. Highlights the essential role of EU social programmes in supporting cohesion and economic resilience.
  3. Underscores the importance of implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and achieving its 2030 targets.
  4. Notes the low take-up of EU funds in the last year of the current multiannual financial framework and calls for improved use, considering amending programmes.
  5. Calls for particular support to women, children, youth, families and vulnerable groups, with targeted measures against youth unemployment and child poverty.
  6. Emphasises the lack of policy responses to demographic ageing and underscores the need for adequate funding for care and support services.
  7. Considers a proficient workforce essential for competitiveness and resilience, recognising the role of skills, vocational training and traineeships.
  8. Recalls the work of the five EU agencies in social and employment policy and stresses they must be properly staffed and resourced.

Who is affected

  • EU member states and the Commission are called on to improve the use of EU funds.
  • Women, children, youth, families and vulnerable groups are to receive particular support.
  • The five EU agencies active in social and employment policy must be adequately resourced.

Figures and deadlines

  • 2030 targets of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan
  • 2027 as the last year of the current multiannual financial framework