Plenary session
28 April 2026
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PLENARY European Parliament
Follow its sittings04:29 - 05:05
Speaker 1
The session is open. On our agenda. We have the recommendation by Mister Murashan and Miss Tarash. Proposal for the multi-annual financial framework for 2028, 02/2034. Have a considerable list of speakers.
So I'm going to be quite tight on respecting speaking time, and to kick off the debate, I'll give the floor to the orators Sigfried Muresham. Thank you.
05:05 - 07:38
Speaker 2
We are putting to vote here in the European Parliament the position of the Parliament for the budget of the European Union for the next 7 years. We are presenting a budget which is sufficient, which is predictable, and which is transparent.
Because the reality is, the world is changing. And we all have to do more for our security. For our economic strength. We have to do more for our energy independence, our food security, and our cybersecurity. And none of these tasks can be solved by member states individually alone.
They are too big for us alone. We can only solve them together, united. And this is why Europe needs a budget to meet our ambitions, our aspirations, and our political priorities.
The position of the European Parliament is clear. We believe we can do more with less. That is a myth. Whoever wants to weaken Europe should say it and should propose the budget, but we, as European parliament, believe that if Europe has to be strong, it needs the tools, and the budget is an essential tool. Europe can only be strong with a strong budget, and this is why we propose a budget.
In which the new priorities, security, defense, and competitiveness are well funded, and the traditional priorities which have proven their importance and their viability in time, agriculture, fisheries, regional policy continue to be funded.
There cannot be security without food security. The support to our farmers means millions of jobs in agriculture, means rural development, and means food security. This is why we continue to defend farmers and fishers.
What we propose as a budget, as a European parliament, is predictability to agriculture and to cohesion policy. We reject the idea of weakening these two policies. We want a separate budget for agriculture, and cohesion and legal predictability.
We also propose to restore the cuts made by the European Commission to fishers, because fishers are also essential for the food security of Europe. And because outermost regions are of strategic importance for the union as a whole, we all have to defend them, and this is why we, a parliament, propose a dedicated fund for the outermost reach the islands far away, because defending them should be a common task for the European Union.
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