Competition policy – annual report 2025

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 1The LeftMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 3 a (new)
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   3a. Stresses that competition policy should not hinder the implementation of an active industrial strategy; calls for the Member States and the EU to pursue an active industrial strategy underpinned by strong public investment, in order to fight social and regional inequality, decarbonise industry and bolster autonomy in key economic sectors, while contributing globally to even and sustainable economic development; underlines that, as Europe faces increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves and climate disasters, competition rules must not prevent Member States from making the public investments and granting the support necessary to protect people, adapt infrastructure, strengthen public serv…

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2. Amendment 2The LeftMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 3 b (new)
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   3b. Stresses that public ownership and public control of companies of strategic significance to the transition to a socially just and climate-neutral economy are vital to effectively guide, support and accelerate this transition and develop more democratic forms of production; calls on the Commission and the Member States to create an EU framework to facilitate public ownership and public control in such strategic economic sectors;

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3. Amendment 3The LeftMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 13 a (new)
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   13a. Highlights the fact that corporate profits have been important contemporary drivers of inflation; stresses that profit-driven inflation, or greedflation, should be met with appropriate interventions, such as windfall taxes, price controls or antitrust proceedings, in order to mitigate its socially harmful impact on living costs; calls on the Member States and the Commission to immediately introduce permanent windfall profit taxes to combat profit-driven inflation in all sectors and to redistribute windfall profits to low-income households;

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4. Amendment 4The LeftMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 41 a (new)
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   41a. Underlines that undertakings in the food and energy supply chains reaped abnormally high profits during the period of high inflation between 2021 and 2023; warns that renewed inflationary pressures, in particular those stemming from the ongoing energy shock, risk once again enabling companies with significant market power in essential goods markets to extract windfall gains from consumers and suppliers, as already reflected in the very high profits recorded by major fossil fuel companies in 2026, with a similar risk of excessive profit extraction in the agri-food sector; stresses that this requires particular vigilance from the Commission and national competition authorities, especially…

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5. Amendment 5The LeftMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 45 a (new)
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   45a. Underlines that, over recent years, the EU telecommunications industry has seen increasing consolidation; highlights the fact that more consolidated markets in Europe tend to be characterised by low levels of investment and that increasing consolidation often leads to higher prices1a and lower-quality services for EU consumers; _________________ 1a European Commission: Directorate- General for Competition, Protecting competition in a changing world – Evidence on the evolution of competition in the EU during the past 25 years, Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2763/089949.

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6. Amendment 6The LeftMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 46 a (new)
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   46a. Calls on the Commission, when assessing mergers under EU competition rules, to evaluate potential harm to workers, including from employer concentration and the market power of global digital gatekeepers; underlines the associated risks, such as reduced job mobility, weakened collective bargaining, and downward pressure on wages and working conditions; stresses that competition enforcement must safeguard the social market economy by preventing excessive concentrations of market and labour market power from undermining EU labour standards;

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7. Amendment 7The LeftMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 50 a (new)
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   50a. Stresses that State aid should not amount to a transfer of public wealth to the private sector; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that strict social and environmental conditions are imposed on companies receiving State aid, including prohibitions on closures, production cutbacks and relocations, prohibitions of the distribution of dividends to shareholders and bonuses to upper management, and the obligation to create high-quality, well-paid, unionised jobs with extensive labour participation rights and credible plans for the ecological transformation;

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8. Amendment 8RenewMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 23
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   23. Stresses that increasing concentration in cloud services may undermine competition, innovation and the EU’s strategic autonomy; highlights that practices such as bundling, cloud marketplaces and contractual mechanisms, including credits and spend commitments, can reinforce vendor lock-in and limit switching or multi-cloud strategies; stresses that cloud obligations must be updated; notes that, in its first review of the DMA, the Commission reports that it opened three market investigations into cloud computing services in November 2025, two to assess whether Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services should be designated as gatekeepers for cloud computing services, and a third to assess whe…

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   23. Stresses that increasing concentration in cloud services may undermine competition, innovation and the EU’s strategic autonomy; highlights that practices such as bundling, cloud marketplaces and contractual mechanisms, including credits and spend commitments, can reinforce vendor lock-in and limit switching or multi-cloud strategies; stresses that cloud obligations must be updated; notes that, following the market investigations into cloud computing services that were opened in November 2025, the Commission published its preliminary position on 25 June 2026, stating that Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services should be designated as gatekeepers for cloud computing services15a, while its…

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9. Amendment 9ESNMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 3
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   3. Firmly believes that the Draghi and Letta reports should contribute to shaping priorities in the competition field, and calls for these reports to be followed up on as a matter of urgency; takes note of Mario Draghi’s estimate that, in order to protect our EU competitiveness, an additional EUR 800 billion per year is needed; emphasises that consumer interests should remain central, while taking into account the need for competition policy to contribute to key objectives, such as competitiveness, resilience, security, strategic autonomy and sustainability; welcomes the Draghi report’s proposal for a flexible market investigation tool (the ‘new competition tool’) to address market failures…

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   3. Firmly believes that the Draghi and Letta reports should contribute to shaping priorities in the competition field; regrets, however, that similar competitiveness strategies have already failed in the past, most notably the Lisbon Agenda of 2000, which aimed to make the EU the most competitive economy in the world by 2010 but resulted in the United States’ economy becoming approximately 30 % larger than the EU’s in relative terms; emphasises that consumer interests should remain central, while taking into account the need for competition policy to contribute to key objectives, such as competitiveness, resilience, security, strategic autonomy and sustainability; welcomes the Draghi report’…

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10. Amendment 10ESNMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 9 a (new)
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    9a. invites the Member States to move away from the logic of subsidies in favour of public procurement reserved for European companies, in order to support their growth and enable them to compete with American and Chinese giants;

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11. Amendment 11ESNMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 42
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    42. Stresses that Europe lacks large-scale companies capable of competing globally in numerous key strategic areas; considers scaling up within the single market as a strategic EU imperative to mobilise investments, drive competitiveness, invest in innovation and enable EU companies to compete effectively on global markets, as highlighted by the Letta report; stresses that the completion of the single market and the removal of internal barriers remain key priorities in this regard; notes that structural barriers to scaling up within the EU may result in innovative EU companies being acquired by non-EU players, with potential negative effects on long-term competition and innovation capacity i…

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    42. Stresses that Europe lacks large-scale companies capable of competing globally in numerous key strategic areas; considers scaling up within the single market as a strategic EU imperative to mobilise investments, drive competitiveness, invest in innovation and enable EU companies to compete effectively on global markets, as highlighted by the Letta report; stresses that the completion of the single market and the removal of internal barriers remain key priorities in this regard; warns, however, against using merger control to engineer ‘EU champions’ through politically driven consolidation, as true competitiveness stems from free enterprise and market-driven growth rather than centralised…

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12. Amendment 12ESNMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 50 a (new)
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    50a. Expresses concern that extensive aid frameworks linked to the Clean Industrial Deal, the Green Deal and similar initiatives have contributed to higher energy costs and increased regulatory burdens; stresses that such centralised subsidy policies often fail to enhance genuine competitiveness and instead shift costs onto consumers and businesses while expanding bureaucratic oversight at EU level;

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