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Adopted text 2025-10-22

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 - all sections

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Parliament's resolution on the 2026 EU budget sets its position on the Council's draft, restoring cuts and increasing funding for many programmes. It reinforces priorities like research, climate, health, youth mobility, security, and humanitarian aid, while opposing Council reductions. It also addresses administrative budgets, including Parliament's own, and calls for new own resources.

Key points

  1. Restores all Council cuts to programmes, including Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, and EU4Health, to ensure proper funding.
  2. Increases funding for Horizon Europe by EUR 60 million, CEF Energy by EUR 50 million, CEF Transport by EUR 30 million, and SME strand by EUR 4 million.
  3. Reinforces the Union Civil Protection Mechanism by EUR 30 million, EU4Health by EUR 5 million, Erasmus+ by EUR 5 million, and Creative Europe by EUR 2.5 million.
  4. Increases funding for young farmers by EUR 23 million, agricultural promotion by EUR 30 million, and wine sector by EUR 15 million.
  5. Adds EUR 30 million for Border Management and Visa Instrument and EUR 10 million for Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund.
  6. Boosts military mobility by EUR 35 million and restores nuclear safeguards budget to DB level.
  7. Increases Southern Neighbourhood by EUR 35 million, Eastern Neighbourhood by EUR 25 million, and humanitarian aid by EUR 50 million.
  8. Adds a new budget line for the Reform and Growth Facility for Moldova.
  9. Maintains Parliament's own budget at EUR 2,636,241,620 and supports administrative reforms.
  10. Calls for recovery of unduly spent funds from the Identity and Democracy group and for lifting the ban on APAs in official missions.

Who is affected

  • EU programmes and agencies under all MFF headings receive increased or restored funding.
  • Farmers, young farmers, and wine sector benefit from increased agricultural support.
  • Civil society, media, and humanitarian organizations in Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods get more support.
  • EU institutions and bodies, including Parliament, see adjustments to their budgets and staffing.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 1.3 billion: Council's proposed cuts in commitment appropriations.
  • EUR 748.2 million: initial availabilities for Single Margin Instrument for commitments.
  • EUR 4.225 billion: NGEU overrun costs for 2026.
  • EUR 300 million: estimated liquidity management cost for 2026.
  • EUR 148,696,914: reinforcement of heading 1 above DB.
  • EUR 60,500,000: reinforcement of sub-heading 2b above DB.
  • EUR 98,000,000: reinforcement of heading 3 above DB.
  • EUR 2,636,241,620: Parliament's budget for 2026.

Legal basis: Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

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