Draft amending budget no 1 to the general budget 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

1. Amendment 1PfEMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 2
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   2. Welcomes the fact that the 2024 surplus is driven primarily by an increase in the variation in Title 4 (Financial revenue, default interest and fines), while the surplus of expenditure remains very modest at EUR 273 million;

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   2. Notes the fact that the 2024 surplus is driven primarily by an increase in the variation in Title 4 (Financial revenue, default interest and fines), while the surplus of expenditure amounts to EUR 273 million;

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2. Amendment 2PfEMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 3
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   3. Regrets that the budgeting of the surplus reduces the total GNI-based own resources contribution of Member States to the financing of the 2025 budget by a commensurate amount; stresses that, at a time when financing needs remain high, in particular for the EURI ‘overrun’ costs, and room for manoeuvre within the Union budget remains extremely limited, the budget should retain a sufficient level of flexibility to enable the Union to cope with unforeseen events and new emerging priorities; underlines that the flexibility of the Union budget is one of the key issues to be addressed in the negotiations for the post-2027 multiannual financial framework;

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   3. Welcomes the fact that the budgeting of the surplus reduces the total GNI-based own resources contribution of Member States to the financing of the 2025 budget by a commensurate amount; stresses that, at a time when financing needs remain high, in particular for the EURI ‘overrun’ costs, and room for manoeuvre within the Union budget remains extremely limited, the budget should retain a sufficient level of flexibility to enable the Union to cope with unforeseen events and new emerging priorities; underlines that the flexibility of the Union budget is one of the key issues to be addressed in the negotiations for the post-2027 multiannual financial framework;

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3. Amendment 3PfEMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 7 a (new)
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   7 a. Opposes the adoption of new own resources, as matters stand, given that the situation regarding EU citizens’ purchasing power and European businesses is already critical; calls instead for better management of Union funds, particularly in relation to expenditure which goes beyond the Union’s powers, and for unnecessary expenditure to be done away with, and for genuine budgetary control so as to create significant fiscal headroom, particularly by acting on the many recommendations that have been rightly made by the European Court of Auditors;

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4. Amendment 4PfEMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 8 a (new)
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   8 a. Stresses that the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) recovery instrument was conceived in haste, that it leaves the EU budget highly exposed until 2058; considers therefore that the Commission must take account of the observations made by the European Court of Auditors in order to make a proper assessment of the genuine effectiveness of investments made and to detect and prevent errors;

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5. Amendment 5ESNMotion for a resolution · Recital D a (new)
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   D a. whereas, given the EU’s level of indebtedness, the dramatic rise in interest costs, the absence of a repayment plan and the already heavy tax burden on European taxpayers, the only reasonable option is to allocate the entire budget surplus to the repayment of the NGEU loan;

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6. Amendment 6ESNMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 7 a (new)
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   7 a. Rejects the creation of any new own resource that would burden European taxpayers; emphasises the need to drastically reduce EU spending to alleviate the tax burden and avoid passing on an even heavier burden to future generations due to the debt created by the “Next Generation EU” loan;

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