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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world

TA-10-2025-0090 · P10_TA(2025)0090 · PE766.828

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Parliament's resolution on the post-2027 long-term budget insists the next MFF must have increased resources, focus on European public goods, and support competitiveness, cohesion, green and digital transitions, security, and external action. It calls for simplification, transparency, flexibility, crisis response, rule-of-law conditionality, new own resources, and sustainable management of liabilities, urging timely adoption for implementation from 1 January 2028.

Key points

  1. Insists the next MFF be endowed with increased resources compared to 2021-2027, moving away from the 1% of GNI limit.
  2. Rejects the 'one national plan per Member State' approach and the umbrella Competitiveness Fund merging existing programmes; calls for a new instrument based on InvestEU and Innovation Fund lessons.
  3. Calls for continued support for cohesion, with a decentralised, place-based approach involving local and regional authorities.
  4. Stresses defence spending must not reduce cohesion or social spending; supports a genuine Defence Union and increased investment in security.
  5. Demands enhanced crisis response capacity with two special instruments: one for natural disasters and one for general-purpose crisis response.
  6. Calls for a stronger link between rule of law and budget, with compliance as a prerequisite for accessing EU funds.
  7. Urges the Council to adopt new own resources urgently to repay NGEU borrowing; considers joint borrowing viable for crises.
  8. Calls for increased funding for research, infrastructure, and support for farmers, including a dedicated CAP budget indexed to inflation.
  9. Emphasises support for housing, child poverty reduction, and regions affected by Russia's war, including enhanced access for cities.
  10. Calls for increased climate and biodiversity spending, with improved tracking and impact measurement.
  11. Demands simplification with harmonised rules, a single entry point, and transparency, rejecting NDICI-Global Europe as a model.
  12. Insists on full budgetisation of off-budget instruments and changes to transfer rules to enhance parliamentary scrutiny.

Who is affected

  • EU institutions, including Parliament, Council, Commission, and agencies, will see changes in budget resources and staffing.
  • Farmers and fishers, especially small-scale and young, benefit from increased CAP budget and support measures.
  • Regions, cities, and local authorities gain from cohesion policy and direct access to funds.
  • Candidate countries, including Ukraine and Moldova, receive pre-accession support conditional on reforms.
  • Beneficiaries of EU funds, including civil society, are protected from rule-of-law sanctions through smart conditionality.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 750 billion in 2018 prices was NGEU's additional investment capacity.
  • 1.1% of EU-27's GNI is the current budget size.
  • 1.4% of GDP on State aid was spent by Member States in 2022.
  • EUR 750-800 billion per year is the investment gap for innovation and infrastructure between 2025 and 2030.
  • 3% of GDP target for research and development spending by 2030.
  • 1.5% of GDP per year is needed for climate neutrality by 2050.
  • EUR 500 billion is the defence spending gap for the next decade.
  • 1.4% of Union GDP could be lost from natural disasters.

Legal basis: Articles 311, 312, 323 and 324 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union