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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Committee on Budgetary Control
The FEMM rapporteur advocates publishing Parliament’s Gender Action Plan, increasing funding for EIGE and ESF for reproductive rights initiatives without crowding out other priorities, and strengthening EPPO’s independence through adequate resourcing, after which the Chair takes final remarks and formally closes the meeting.
Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Committee on Budgetary Control
The meeting shifts from the 2027 budget to the 2024 discharge, with calls to improve plenary discharge debates, ensure high‑level Commission presence and systematic follow‑up on conditionality and sector cases, followed by an assessment of EU agencies’ generally positive performance but persistent governance, procurement and cybersecurity risks, and a horizontal institutional overview stressing transparency, ethics, HR, digitalisation and the Council’s continued non‑cooperation.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Committee on Budgetary Control
The Chair opens the joint BUDG–CONT meeting, adopts the agenda and frames the objective around the Commission’s 2027 draft budget, after which the general rapporteur details severe constraints in the last MFF year and the need for highly targeted amendments, followed by the CONT perspective stressing reinforced resourcing for EPPO and anti‑corruption structures ahead of Hungary’s expected accession.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
S&D and ECR clash over keeping the 2027 budget below 1% of GNI, the cost of Ukraine loans and staffing levels in EU institutions and agencies, and other MEPs raise concerns about agency resources, support to farmers, security and border protection, cohesion rules, rising NGEU interest costs and the risk that the Ukraine loan exposure becomes unsustainable.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
MEPs and the Commissioner discuss structural underfunding of Heading 7, staff cuts and reliance on special instruments, while EPP, other groups and the Commissioner set out competing priorities on competitiveness, CAP, cohesion, migration, defence, borders, Ukraine support, Green Deal and rule‑of‑law conditionality as well as reallocations in external action.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the Budgets Committee, adopts the agenda and lets the Commission present Draft Amending Budget 2/2026 and the 2027 draft budget, followed by the rapporteur Ušakovs questioning limited margins, EURI/NGEU assumptions and Ukraine loan financing, and the Commissioner detailing ceilings, liquidity management and the special Ukraine line.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The rapporteur outlines the proposed 2025 EUSF aid package and its links to prevention and budget pressures, followed by group interventions supporting the mobilization while calling to reinforce the fund in the next MFF and improve prevention tools, before criticism of the scale and EU priorities is voiced and the Chair sets deadlines and closes the meeting.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the agenda item on mobilizing EGF technical assistance, the rapporteur presents the objectives and identified implementation gaps, political groups set out conditions and criticisms on the use of the €210,000, and the Commission defends the request while the rapporteur rebuts concerns before procedural deadlines are fixed.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Demography and social-policy experts explain ageing‑driven welfare pressures, the need for long‑term resilience‑oriented policy packages, and the limits of output‑based financing for complex services, then address MEP questions on right to stay, chapter structuring, migration and cultural narratives before clarifying demographic realities and EU fundamental rights and formally closing the hearing.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Academic experts examine how the proposed NRPP architecture shifts toward flexibility and centralized management, its impact on managing authorities, and the weak implementation of CSRs without strong accountability and evaluation, with MEPs debating the balance between flexibility, predictability, renationalisation risks and transparency before the Chair wraps up and transitions to Panel 3.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
ECA and Slovak experts analyse the evolution and inflation of conditionalities, weaknesses of performance indicators and data, administrative burden for beneficiaries, and practical RRF implementation experience, then draw lessons for NRPPs on smart conditionality, reform selection, governance and Commission discretion, followed by a structured MEP Q&A and replies on rule of law, subsidiarity, direct management and complexity.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the hearing on NRPPs, explains links with the MFF and RRF, details the institutional setup and procedure, and the BUDG rapporteur sets the political context, budgetary implications and key questions on lessons from the RRF, conditionalities, national ownership and long‑term investment needs.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Standing rapporteur Sousa Silva reports on the interinstitutional agreement to reform the Union Customs Code and establish the EU Customs Authority in Lille, stressing new own-resource elements, data infrastructure and Parliament’s budgetary prerogatives, before the committee turns to Draft Amending Budget 1/2026 and the treatment of the €2.1 billion surplus. Political groups then debate the need for new own resources, the use of fines and forecasting quality, with the Commission defending its methods and announcing a further amending budget, and the Chair setting the deadline for amendments.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur Radza and shadows set out contrasting views on the proposed fisheries instrument under the National and Regional Partnership Fund, challenging the adequacy of the €2 billion envelope and the loss of a visible, ring-fenced fisheries budget line, while calling for stronger governance and oversight. The PECH rapporteur and Commission defend the minimum-envelope approach, separate budget line and national top-ups, with Radza closing by announcing amendment and BUDG vote deadlines.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The committee runs three consecutive voting sessions, first adopting the report on EIB financial activities and measures linked to the ECSC research fund, then approving an amended mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Belgium, and finally validating nuclear safety and decommissioning instruments plus the OCT/Greenland association decision. The block ends with roll-call approvals of DEC 7/2021, the EESC budget transfer and the Mechelen warehouse decision.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Members review long-term real estate decisions, starting with the Mechelen external warehouse lease shared with the Commission and followed by Commission early warnings on three Brussels usufruct buildings, before examining delays to the Jean Monnet 2 project in Luxembourg and related BECH/Helios lease extensions and penalties. The debate focuses on cost, governance, contractual liabilities and negotiating leverage vis-à-vis member states and private landlords.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the BUDG meeting, confirms the agenda, coordinators’ decisions and absence of section 3 transfers, then examines and recommends approval of the EESC request to shift €42,000 from childcare to a PMO pension-management SLA. This sets the institutional and budgetary context before turning to larger building and real estate items.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The Chair postpones an inter‑institutional negotiations item due to the rapporteur’s absence, addresses visiting guests, and formally closes the morning meeting of the Budgets Committee.
Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Bogdan Rzońca and 5 others
Rapporteur, shadows, the Chair and the Commission review the EGF case for dismissed Solvay workers, link it to wider industrial pressures and Chinese competition, and reflect on the future design of EU labour‑market instruments and monitoring of outcomes.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The Commission presents the 2025 surplus and its drivers, while rapporteur and shadows contest the legal obligation to return surpluses to Member States, question customs and interest‑cost forecasting, and debate implications for new own resources under geopolitical uncertainty.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur and Members discuss extending CBAM to downstream goods as a new EU own resource, addressing fairness in carbon pricing, additional revenue potential, competitiveness concerns, and administrative impacts on SMEs.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Members and the Commission examine the proposed Temporary Decarbonisation Fund, focusing on its link to CBAM revenues, complementarity with existing instruments, treatment of unused resources, and the effort to keep it strictly temporary and administratively light.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Johan Van Overtveldt and 9 others
The Chair opens the Budgets Committee sitting, introduces the Agora EU programme file, and frames the budgetary and procedural context before giving the floor to the rapporteur and other political groups.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Committee examines integrating ESF into NRPPs, the architecture and scrutiny of home affairs funds, and the enlarged Euratom/ITER envelopes, focusing on ring‑fencing, traceability, parliamentary control, and alignment of multiannual funding with the MFF and performance requirements.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
MEPs question experts, the EIB and the Commission on scale, conditionality, corruption controls, leverage and debt sustainability, with replies clarifying oversight, wartime rebuilding, private‑sector involvement and links between the Ukraine Facility, Global Europe and the MFF, leading to the chair’s conclusions and closure of the item.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Chair frames the hearing on Ukraine’s reconstruction within Global Europe and the next MFF before the first expert panel details security scenarios, financing mix, and sectoral and procurement needs for a viable reconstruction pipeline.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Matjaž Nemec and 4 others
The committee reviews the Committee of the Regions’ transfer and establishment plan, the ETF’s forced relocation in Turin, and the EEAS lease for new premises in Ghana, examining costs, security and planning, before testing the voting system and approving the CoR transfer and the EEAS Accra lease ahead of suspending the sitting.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
Laurence Muller-Bronn and 7 others
Rapporteurs and political groups debate the 2028–2034 Justice Programme, the successor to the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, and the future structure of cohesion policy versus a single NRP envelope, focusing on budget levels, ring‑fencing, rule‑of‑law and access‑to‑justice objectives, integration spending and regional involvement.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The Chair introduces the assessment of the European Competitiveness Fund, followed by the rapporteur’s priorities on InvestEU, governance, EIB involvement and delegated acts, and Commission/ITRE input on the ECF’s size, architecture, guarantees and overlapping committee competences.
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Committee on Budgets Ordinary meeting
The Chair adjusts and adopts the agenda, then the committee hears an external study on investment needs in the Draghi and Letta reports, including quantified gaps, InvestEU leverage scenarios and a detailed Q&A with MEPs on assumptions, EIB’s role and leverage realism.
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