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OPINION (2025/2246(BUI))

On the guidelines for the 2027 budget – Section III

FEMM-AD-782239

Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality · Rapporteur: Raquel García HermidaVan Der Walle

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The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality calls on the Committee on Budgets to incorporate its suggestions into the 2027 budget resolution, focusing on gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting, and funding for gender equality. It demands gender equality be integrated across all EU spending, with specific funding for combating violence against women, sexual and reproductive health, childcare, and support for civil society and EIGE.

Key points

  1. Calls for systematic gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting in all EU programmes, with gender-related objectives and monitoring.
  2. Stresses that cohesion policy must address demographic change, depopulation, and the housing crisis, targeting regions and people most in need.
  3. Calls for developing the Commission’s gender tracking methodology, mandatory gender impact assessments, and earmarking funds for gender equality in the next MFF.
  4. Demands adequate funding and staffing for EIGE, including at least five temporary agents and one contract agent as cybersecurity officer, and resources to comply with the Cybersecurity Regulation.
  5. Notes EIGE’s disproportionate burden from the Summa software cost of EUR 200 000 and annual maintenance fees, urging future budget allocations to account for this.
  6. Calls for increased funding for Daphne to combat gender-based violence, allocating at least 5% of the EU budget to anti-violence policies, and at least 40% of CERV funds to prevent violence and 15% to promote gender equality.
  7. Calls for dedicated EU4Health funding for research on gender-specific health conditions, including sexual and reproductive health, and ensuring equal access to health services, including safe and legal abortion.
  8. Urges the Commission to deny EU funds to organisations that undermine gender equality and to withdraw existing funding from them, ensuring funds do not support human rights rollbacks.
  9. Calls for increased budget for civil society organisations promoting women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights, including grassroots groups, and for gender-responsive humanitarian aid with transparent reporting.
  10. Stresses the need for adequate Commission staffing and training for gender mainstreaming, and for policies supporting SMEs and women entrepreneurs, including a competitiveness and SME check.
  11. Calls for budgetary preparedness for the voluntary opt-in mechanism on sexual and reproductive health, and for sustained investment in childcare and early childhood education.
  12. Calls for better provisions to support women’s networking and mentoring, and for upskilling women and girls, including older women, to reduce skills gaps.

Who is affected

  • The European Commission, which must implement gender mainstreaming, track spending, and ensure funding conditions.
  • EIGE, which needs increased staffing and budget to meet new tasks and cybersecurity requirements.
  • Civil society organisations promoting women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights, especially grassroots groups, which should receive more funding.
  • Women and girls in the EU, who should benefit from better access to health services, childcare, and labour market support.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 200 000 per agency for Summa software acquisition, which for EIGE is almost 15% of its Title II budget.
  • EUR 125 000 already paid by EIGE in 2024 for the software.
  • At least 5% of the total EU budget for policies combating violence against women.
  • At least 40% of CERV funds for Equality, Rights and Gender Equality and Daphne strands to prevent and combat gender-based violence.
  • At least 15% of those funds to promote women’s rights and gender equality.
  • One in three women in the EU have experienced violence.
  • EUR 366 billion annually is the estimated economic cost of such violence.

Legal basis: Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union