(AGENPARL) – mer 15 gennaio 2025 Newsletter
ISSUE 1 – 2025
THURSDAY, 16 JANUARY 2025,
09.00 – 11.00
SPAAK 4B1, BRUSSELS
BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 1 – 2025
*** Thursday, 16 December 2025, 09.00 – 11.00 ***
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*** VOTING TIME ***
2024 Budget: Section III – Commission
– No transfer request
Rapporteur:
Siegfried Mure?an (EPP)
Shadows:
Victor Negrescu (S&D)
(PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Rasmus Nordqvist (Greens/
Nikolas Farantouris (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
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2025 Budget: Section III – Commission
– No transfer request
Rapporteur:
Victor Negrescu (S&D)
Shadows:
Andrzej Halicki (EPP)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Rasmus Andresen (Greens/
Nikolas Farantouris (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
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2024 Budget: Other Sections
– No transfer request
Rapporteur:
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
Shadows:
Isabel Benjumea (EPP)
(PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Rasmus Nordqvist (Greens/
(The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
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2025 Budget: Other Sections
– No transfer request
Rapporteur:
Niclas Herbst (EPP)
Shadows:
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Kai Tegethoff (Greens/EFA)
João Oliveira (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
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Building Policy
– Frontex: Design and execution contract for the headquarters,
Warsaw
Members will vote on a Frontex building project on the design and
execution contract for the construction of new Headquarters in
Warsaw, Poland.
The building is planned to have a net useable surface area of 63 161 m2
and house 2 000 staff for a total estimated project cost of EUR
250 million. Frontex is seeking approval to partially finance this project
through an EIB loan.
Rapporteur:
Olivier Chastel (Renew)
Shadows:
Monika Hohlmeier (EPP)
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
(PfE)
Ruggero Razza (ECR)
Ignazio Marino (Greens/EFA)
(The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
An exchange of views on the early warning for Frontex’s Headquarters
took place in the Committee on Budgets on 27 October 2021 and 8 June
2023.
– No other building request
*** END OF VOTE ***
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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 1 – 2025
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Macro-financial assistance to the Arab Republic of Egypt
The European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets is assessing a
proposed macro-financial assistance (MFA) package of EUR 4 billion for
the Arab Republic of Egypt, designed to address the country’s external
financing gap of USD 17.7 billion for 2024-2027. The package follows a
previous EUR 1 billion short-term assistance approved in April 2024,
with the new proposal requiring EUR 360 million in provisioning under
the External Action Guarantee from the Neighbourhood, Development
and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe. Egypt’s
current economic indicators show public debt at 95.9% of GDP as of the
2022/2023 fiscal year, an increase from 88.5% in the previous fiscal year.
The assistance will establish structural reform measures and
disbursement conditions. This package addresses Egypt’s external
financing needs in the context of decreased tourism revenues, reduced
Suez Canal proceeds, and limited access to international financial
markets, as reflected in recent sovereign credit rating downgrades.
Rapporteur:
Matjaž Nemec (S&D)
Shadows:
Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP)
(PfE)
(ECR)
Moritz Körner (Renew)
Rasmus Andresen (Greens/
(The Left)
(ESN)
Presentation of draft
budgetary assessment:
16 January 2025
Deadline for tabling
amendments:
21 January 2025 at 12.00
Adoption in BUDG:
29 January 2025
Adoption in INTA: TBC
Plenary: TBC
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Macro-financial assistance to the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan
Rapporteur:
Johan Van Overtveldt (ECR)
The European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets has started its draft
assessment of a proposed EUR 500 million macro-financial assistance
package for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which would mark the
EU’s fourth such operation since 2014. The support, proposed for
disbursement in three installments through 2027, aims at addressing
Jordan’s significant external financing needs, including a current
account deficit of 7.1% of GDP and a public debt burden of 88.7% of
GDP. The proposal would require EUR 45 million in provisioning under
the External Action Guarantee from NDICI-Global Europe.
Shadows:
Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP)
Jean-Marc Germain (S&D)
(PfE)
Olivier Chastel (Renew)
(Greens/EFA)
(The Left)
(ESN)
While the IMF’s January 2024 assessment confirms Jordan’s debt
sustainability, any assistance would come with strict conditions tied to
IMF program implementation and Jordan’s commitment to reforms. The
Committee’s draft assessment emphasizes the importance of regular
monitoring and reporting mechanisms, particularly given Jordan’s
narrow revenue base of just 16% of GDP from domestic taxation. If
approved, this package would bring the EU’s total macro-financial
support to Jordan to EUR 1.58 billion, reflecting the country’s strategic
importance for regional stability while raising broader questions about
the evolution of the EU’s crisis response instruments.
Presentation of draft
budgetary assessment:
16 January 2025
Deadline for tabling
amendments:
21 January 2025 at 12.00
Adoption in BUDG:
29 January 2025
Adoption in INTA: TBC
Plenary: TBC
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Implementing Protocol (2025-2030) to the Protocol
implementing the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
Agreement between the European Union on the one hand,
and the Government of Greenland and the Government of
Denmark, on the other hand
This budgetary assessment analyses the budgetary aspects of the
Protocol (2025-2030) to the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
Agreement with Greenland and Denmark and whether the act provides
for sufficient financial resources. It also determines whether the
proposal is compatible with the Multiannual Financial Framework and
the corresponding interinstitutional agreement, as well as the
budgetary principles laid down in the Financial Regulation.
The financial contribution from the EU budget for the entire duration of
a) an annual amount for access to fishery resources for the categories
b) support for the development of Greenland’s sectoral fisheries policy
Rapporteur:
Isabel Benjumea Benjumea (EPP)
Shadows:
(EPP)
(S&D)
(PfE)
Stine Bosse (Renew)
(Greens/ EFA)
(The Left)
(ESN)
Presentation of draft budgetary
assessment:
16 January 2025
Deadline for tabling amendments:
22 January 2025 at 12.00
Adoption in BUDG:
19 February 2025
Adoption in PECH: TBC
The rapporteur, Ms Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, will present her draft
budgetary assessment, and Members of the committee on Budgets will
hold an exchange of views on it. The conclusion of the rapporteur is that
the responsible committee, PECH, shall be advised to approve the
Fisheries Agreement.
Plenary: TBC
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2025 Budget: Section III – Commission – exchange of views
– DEC 1/2025
The Commission will present a transfer request making available
EUR 564,4 million from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR) for the
RepowerEU chapter of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
Following the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2023/435 amending the RRF
Regulation (EU) 2021/241 as regards the RepowerEU chapters in the
recovery and resilience plans and amending the BAR Regulation (EU)
2021/1755, Member States have the possibility to transfer all or part of
their provisional allocation from the resources of the Brexit Adjustment
Reserve to the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
Rapporteur:
Victor Negrescu (S&D)
Shadows:
Andrzej Halicki (EPP)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Rasmus Andresen (Greens/
Nikolas Farantouris (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
Based on the requests submitted by Member States, the total amount
to be transferred from the BAR to the RRF is EUR 2.1 billion, of which
EUR 1.5 billion were transferred in 2023 and EUR 0.6 billion must still be transferred from the reserve in 2025.
The implementing decisions setting out the provisional BAR allocation per Member State, as well as the
annual pre-financing amounts, have been adjusted accordingly.
Therefore, and in accordance with Article 4a of the BAR Regulation, the Commission proposes to mobilise
the BAR for an amount of EUR 564.4 million in commitment and payment appropriations, in order to cover
the REPowerEU actions for the following Member States: Belgium (EUR 126.7 million), Bulgaria (EUR
6 million), Denmark (EUR 26.7 million), Ireland (EUR 73.1 million), Cyprus (EUR 31.2 million), Luxembourg
(EUR 128.5 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 75.6 million in payment appropriations), Malta
(EUR 26 million), The Netherlands (EUR 133.1 million), Sweden (EUR 13.1 million in commitment
appropriations and EUR 66 million in payment appropriations).
– No other transfer request
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Building policy – exchange of views
– EEAS: Possible purchase of the current premises of the delegation
of the European Union to Brazil in Brasilia
The EEAS has informed the Budgetary Authority that they are
considering a possible purchase of the current premises of the EU
delegation to Brazil in Brasilia.
Since 2023 the delegation has been housed in a recently constructed
standalone building, of a total office surface area of 2,380 m2,
accommodating 60 staff members.
The EEAS plans to submit the building project for approval by the
Budgetary Authority in the first half of 2025.
Rapporteur:
Olivier Chastel (Renew)
Shadows:
Monika Hohlmeier (EPP)
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
(PfE)
Ruggero Razza (ECR)
Ignazio Roberto Marino (Greens
/EFA)
(The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
– EEAS: Possible lease of new offices, a new residence and additional staff accommodations for the
delegation of the European Union to Libya in Tripoli
The EEAS has informed the Budgetary Authority that they are considering a possible lease for new offices,
a new residence for the Head of delegation, and additional staff accommodations for the EU delegation to
Libya in Tripoli.
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In 2021, the EEAS was authorised to rent additional space (offices and accommodation) in the same
compound and the contract is in force until 2026. Since the permanent relocation of Delegation staff from
Tunis to Tripoli in 2024, there is a shortage of meeting rooms, office space, and staff accommodation. The
EEAS deems that it is necessary to explore the options for creating additional space for hosting 28 staff,
accommodating security staff, more appropriate accommodation for staff, and the residence. The total
estimated surface is 2,500 m².
The EEAS plans to submit the building project for approval by the Budgetary Authority in the second quarter
of 2025, with a view to relocate in the course of 2025.
– EEAS: New lease for offices, for the delegation of the European Union to Türkiye in Ankara
The EEAS has informed the Budgetary Authority that they are considering a new lease for offices for the EU
delegation to Türkiye in Ankara.
Since 2025 the delegation has been housed in an office building shared with other diplomatic missions and
private entities, occupying five floors, with a total rented surface of 5,300 m². As the lease is expiring in
August 2025 and the contract does not foresee a possibility to renew, the EEAS intends to launch a market
prospection for identifying potential alternatives.
The EEAS plans to submit the building project for approval by the Budgetary Authority in the second quarter
of 2025.
– EEAS: Possible purchase of the residence for the Head of the European Delegation to Ghana in Accra
The EEAS has informed the Budgetary Authority that they are considering the purchase of a residence for
the Head of the EU delegation to Ghana in Accra, and would like to launch a market prospection to that
effect.
The current residence is leased and located in a stand-alone villa with a usable surface of approximately
360 m2.The owner has expressed the intention to sell the premises. The EEAS plans to submit the building
project for approval by the Budgetary Authority during the first half of 2025.
– No other information received
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NEXT MEETINGS
29-30 January 2025 – BUDG meeting
30 January 2025 – joint AFET-BUDG meeting
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Implementation figures
NEWS FROM POLICY DEPARTMENT D
Recent publications
Publications Catalogue 2019 – 2024
Study “Performance and mainstreaming framework for the EU budget”
Briefing “European Union gender budgeting – state of play 2024”
Study “Recent inflation developments and the EU budget” (Part 2)
Study “EU contingent financial liabilities”
At a Glance “EU contingent financial liabilities”
Briefing “Mainstreaming in the post-2027 MFF”
Briefing “Performance-based Programmes under the post-2027 MFF”
Briefing “European public goods and the 2028-2034 MFF”
Briefing “Revamping the EU’s budgetary flexibility”
Briefing “Management of debt liabilities in the EU budget under the post-2027 MFF”
Briefing “EU Enlargement and the post-2027 MFF”
Study “The history of the EU budget” (Update)
Other language versions
Briefing “The European Parliament and the CFSP Budget – The case of the Rapid Deployment
Capacity”
Study “Performance framework for the EU budget – Concepts and practices” (Part 1)
Study “The impacts of recent inflation developments on the EU finances” (Part 1)
Briefing “ITER financing by the EU budget – state-of-play”
Briefing “An estimate of the European Union’s long-term borrowing cost bill”
Briefing “Gender budgeting in the Member States”
At a Glance “Options for a stronger and more agile EU budget”
Study “Options for a stronger and more agile EU budget”
Briefing “Ukraine: Financing of reconstruction and the role of the EU budget”
Briefing “Budgetary aspects of EU defence policy”
In-Depth Analysis “Recovery and Resilience Dialogue with the European Commission”
Briefing “EU Financial assistance to Africa and Latin America 2021-2027”
Study “Lessons learned from the implementation of crisis response tools at EU level” (Part 2)
At a Glance “Nomination for a Member of the European Court of Auditors: Bulgaria”
Study “EU anti-fraud architecture – the role of EU-level players, how they cooperate and the
challenges they face”
Briefing “Cohesion Policy Calendar (2021-2027 and 2014-2020 Programming Periods)” July 2024
update
Briefing “Analysis of the 100 largest recipients of RRF funds per Member State”
Briefing “EU assistance to Ukraine and scrutiny of the EU financing provided”
Study “Lessons learned from the implementation of crisis response tools at EU level” (Part 1)
Study “The future of digitalisation of budgetary control”
At a Glance “Nomination for a Member of the European Court of Auditors: Italy”
Workshop Proceedings “Preventing EU funds from reaching sanctioned individuals or entities”
Study “Due Diligence in EU Institutions’ Own-Account Procurement: Rules and Practices”
Workshop Proceedings “Sponsorships of EU Presidencies: Stocktaking and Perspectives”
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Briefing “Nominations for Members of the European Court of Auditors: Sweden and Portugal”
Briefing “EU assistance to Ukraine and scrutiny of the EU financing provided”
Briefing “Preventing EU funds from ending up with individuals or companies tied to the EU-Russia
sanctions list”
In-Depth Analysis “The EU Emissions Trading System: Method and Effects of Free Allowance
Allocation”
Briefing “Nominations for Members of the European Court of Auditors: Belgium and Finland”
At a Glance “Transparency and accountability of EU funding for NGOs active in EU policy areas within
EU territory”
Forthcoming publications
Study “Mapping the current structure and discovering the potential of ‘other revenue’ ”
Study “Adapting the EU budget to make it fit for purpose for future enlargements”
Study “Parliamentary budgetary control: an international overview”
Study “Accountability of entities not subject to the EU Discharge: the EIB”
Study “The Financial Transparency System – How to improve its functioning and reliability”
Study “Performance based Instruments: possible improvements in their design”
Study “Methods in the European Court of Auditors and the Commission: the estimated level of error
vs estimated risk at payment/risk at closure”
Forthcoming events
Workshop “EU anti-fraud architecture – the role of EU-level players, how they cooperate and the
challenges they face” (date tbc)
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