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Discharge 2024: EU general budget - European External Action Service

TA-10-2026-0130 · P10_TA(2026)0130 · PE778.061

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Parliament grants discharge to the High Representative for the EEAS budget for 2024, with observations in a resolution. The resolution notes budget constraints, calls for better financial management, transparency, and oversight, and addresses staff, security, and geopolitical issues.

Key points

  1. Grants discharge to the High Representative for implementing the EEAS budget for 2024.
  2. Notes the EEAS budget was EUR 1,239 billion, with a 100% commitment implementation rate and 88.4% payment rate; calls for reducing late payments.
  3. Calls for a performance audit of the EEAS and a cost-benefit analysis of its network, discontinuing ineffective activities.
  4. Calls for strengthened transparency and oversight of the European Peace Facility, whose ceiling rose to EUR 17 billion in 2024.
  5. Calls for reinforced coordination and resources to counter foreign information manipulation and disinformation, commending EEAS efforts.
  6. Calls for continued support to Ukraine with strict controls and anti-fraud safeguards, and for real-time access to information on fund use.
  7. Calls for robust monitoring of EU funds in Palestine and Lebanon, and for investigating any misuse of funds.
  8. Calls for strengthening gender equality and women's rights in external action, and for a more ambitious GAP IV.
  9. Calls for protecting local staff rights in restructuring, and for consulting staff representatives in dismissal plans.
  10. Calls for improving geographical balance and diversity in EEAS staff, including in management posts.
  11. Calls for drawing lessons from the EPPO investigation into the EU Diplomatic Academy procurement, and for transparency.
  12. Calls for activating Article 86 of the EU-Cuba agreement and terminating it, citing human rights violations.

Who is affected

  • EEAS staff, including local agents in Union delegations, affected by restructuring and redundancy plans.
  • Union delegations and their staff, facing budgetary constraints and security challenges.
  • The College of Europe, subject to an EPPO investigation into procurement for the EU Diplomatic Academy.
  • Cuba, as Parliament calls for termination of the cooperation agreement.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 1,239 billion total budget managed by EEAS in 2024.
  • EUR 17 billion ceiling for European Peace Facility in 2024.
  • EUR 450 million in humanitarian aid to Palestine since October 2023.
  • EUR 1.8 million spent on EU Diplomatic Academy across 2022–2024.
  • EUR 10 million increase in 2025 budget for security infrastructure.

Legal basis: Article 287 and Articles 314(10), 317, 318, 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union