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Role of EU policies in shaping the European Sport Model

TA-10-2025-0212 · P10_TA(2025)0212 · PE772.146

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Parliament's resolution on the role of EU policies in shaping the European Sport Model reaffirms support for the model, which is based on solidarity, sporting merit, and openness, and calls for measures to protect it. It urges action on funding, governance, athletes' rights, and integrity, including calls for a long-term EU strategy on sport and for legislation against online piracy.

Key points

  1. Reiterates commitment to the European Sport Model, where sport serves societal objectives and contributes to EU policy areas.
  2. Calls for safe, inclusive, equitable sport accessible to all, with focus on gender equality, combating violence and discrimination, and including persons with disabilities.
  3. Stresses the role of physical activity for health and social skills, and calls for investment in school sport infrastructure and programmes.
  4. Calls on the Commission to develop recommendations to support volunteering in sport, including guidelines for attracting and retaining volunteers.
  5. Calls for strengthening financial solidarity between professional and grassroots sport, and for a study mapping existing mechanisms.
  6. Calls for increased funding for sport under Erasmus+ 2028-2034 and for accessible funding schemes for grassroots clubs.
  7. Urges member states to ensure hosting rights for major events are merit-based and uphold European Sport Model values.
  8. Calls for action against match-fixing, doping, and online piracy, including a proposal for targeted legislation on live content piracy.
  9. Calls for high governance standards in sports organisations, with stakeholder representation and social dialogue, and for an EU Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Professional Sport.
  10. Calls for protection of athletes' fundamental rights, including social protection, dual careers, and involvement in calendar decisions.
  11. Calls on the Commission to present a long-term strategy on sport and physical activity policy and to monitor threats to the European Sport Model.
  12. Stresses the need to protect the vertical nature of the model, with promotion/relegation at national level and domestic performance as sole criterion for European competitions.

Who is affected

  • Sports governing bodies, clubs, and organisations at all levels, which are called on to implement governance, solidarity, and integrity measures.
  • Athletes, including minors and women, whose rights and representation are to be strengthened.
  • Volunteers in grassroots sport, who are to be supported and incentivised.
  • Sports event organisers and broadcasters, who are affected by calls to combat online piracy.

Figures and deadlines

  • Erasmus+ programme for 2028-2034, for which increased funding is called.

Legal basis: Articles 6 and 165 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union