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What changed between the plenary report of 14 Oct 2025 and the plenary report of 19 Nov 2025

From · plenary report· 14 Oct 2025

A-10-2025-0192

on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026

To · plenary report· 19 Nov 2025

A-10-2025-0235

on the joint text on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 approved by the Conciliation Committee under the budgetary procedure

These two texts have too little in common to compare paragraph by paragraph: they are different documents rather than versions of one (for example one group’s motion and the joint text that was adopted).

+132 added · −152 removed · 4 changed paragraphs, packaging included.

Part 1 of 6: Paragraphs 1–37

Changed:MOTION FOR ADRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Changed:on the Counciljoint positiontext on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 (11216/2025approved –by C10-0206/2025the –Conciliation 2025/0210(BUD))Committee under the budgetary procedure

Added:(11216/2025 – C100206/2025 – 2025/0210(BUD))

The European Parliament,

Removed:– having regard to Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),

Added:– having regard to the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee including the relevant Parliament, Council and Commission statements (11216/2025 – C100206/2025),

Added:– having regard to the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026, which the Commission adopted on 9 July 2025 (COM(2025)0300),

Added:– having regard to the position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026, which the Council adopted on 5 September 2025 and forwarded to Parliament on 12 September 2025 (11216/2025 – C100206/2025),

Added:– having regard to Letter of amendment No 1/2026 to the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026, which the Commission presented on 8 October (COM(2025)0851),

Added:– having regard to its resolution of 22 October 2025 on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 and to the budget amendments contained therein,

Added:– having regard to Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

– having regard to Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,

Change 1

Removed:– having regard to Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union, whereby gender equality is a core value of the Union,

Added:– having regard to Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053 EU of 14 December 2020 on the system of own resources of the European Union and repealing Decision 2014/335/EU, Euratom,

Removed:– having regard to Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, whereby ‘in all its activities, the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities and to promote equality’; whereas this applies including to all levels of the budgetary process,

Added:− having regard to Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast),

Removed:– having regard to Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053 of 14 December 2020 on the system of own resources of the European Union and repealing Decision 2014/335/EU, Euratom,

Removed:– having regard to the Commission proposal of 22 December 2021 for a Council decision amending Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053 on the system of own resources of the European Union (COM(2021)0570) and its position of 23 November 2022 on the proposal,

– having regard to Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 of 17 December 2020 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021-2027 and to the joint declarations agreed between Parliament, the Council and the Commission in this context and the related unilateral declarations,

– having regard to Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2022/2496 of 15 December 2022 amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027,

Changed:– having regard to the Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/765 amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 (MFF revision),Revision),

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Change 2

Removed:– having regard to its resolution of 2 April 2025 on general guidelines for the preparation of the 2026 Budget - Section III,

Added:– having regard to Rule 97 and Rule 98 of its Rules of Procedure,

Removed:– having regard to its resolution of 16 December 2020 on the draft Council regulation laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027,

Added:– having regard to the report of its delegation to the Conciliation Committee (A10-0235/2025),

Removed:– having regard to its resolution of 3 October 2023 on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the multiannual financial framework 2021-2027,

Added:1. Approves the joint text;

Removed:– having regard to its resolution of 27 February 2024 on the draft Council regulation amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027,

Added:2. Confirms the joint statement by Parliament and the Council annexed to this resolution;

Removed:– having regard to its resolution of 10 May 2023 on the impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs,

Added:3. Takes note of the Commission statement annexed to this resolution;

Removed:– having regard to Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget,

Added:4. Instructs its President to declare that the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 has been definitively adopted and to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;

Removed:– having regard to its resolution of 3 April 2025 on Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026,

Added:5. Instructs its President to forward this legislative resolution to the Council, the Commission, the other institutions and bodies concerned and the national parliaments.

Removed:– having regard to its resolution of 15 December 2022 on upscaling the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework: a resilient EU budget fit for new challenges,