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2028-2034 EU budget: Comparing Parliament's position with the Commission proposal
2028-2034 EU budget: Comparing Parliament's position with the Commission proposal
Marianna Pari with Thomas Cuyvers, Members' Research Service
Summary
The European Parliament is due to adopt its negotiating mandate for the EU's 2028-2034 budget during the April plenary session. The report of the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) defends a budget set at 1.27 % of EU gross national income (GNI), with the debt servicing for the Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery fund (0.11 % of GNI) set outside the budget ceilings. This is a 10 % increase compared with the Commission proposal.
Statement of purpose
Interim report: 2025/0571R(APP); Committee responsible: BUDG; Rapporteurs: Siegfried Mureşan (EPP, Romania) and Carla Tavares (S&D, Portugal). This infographic complements the plenary 'At a glance' note on the '2028-2034 EU budget: Parliament's position.
Overview
The interim report of the BUDG committee, adopted on 15 April, defends a budget of €1.789 trillion (all prices are in 2025 constant prices), excluding NGEU debt repayment costs (€149.3 billion). BUDG calls for the NGEU cost to be set above the €1.789 trillion budget ceiling and for a 10 % increase (+€175.1 billion) on average – including NGEU – compared with the Commission proposal.
The BUDG report also sets the budgetary principles and amends the budget's structure. It advocates distinct budget lines for individual policies, such as the common agricultural policy (CAP), the common fisheries policy, the cohesion policy, the European Social Fund and home affairs (under Heading 1). It earmarks funding for actions relating to the EU4Health and LIFE programmes under the European Competitiveness Fund (under Heading 2). Finally, it proposes separate budget lines within the Global Europe Fund (Heading 3) for the different pillars, thematic programmes, countries and instruments.
The graphics below compare the Commission proposal with Parliament's position, as put forward by the BUDG committee, for the MFF as a whole and then for each of the four headings in greater detail.
Source: EPRS, compiled by the authors based on the BUDG interim report
Breakdown of the proposed MFF by its four headings
Source: EPRS, compiled by the authors based on the BUDG interim report
Source: EPRS, compiled by the authors based on the BUDG interim report
Source: EPRS, compiled by the authors based on the BUDG interim report
Source: EPRS, compiled by the authors based on the BUDG interim report.
Interim report: 2025/0571R(APP); Committee responsible: BUDG; Rapporteurs: Siegfried Mureşan (EPP, Romania) and Carla Tavares (S&D, Portugal).
This infographic complements the plenary 'At a glance' note on the '2028-2034 EU budget: Parliament's position'.
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