Highlights from the Budgets Committee's upcoming meeting

The European Parliamentary Week 2026 kicks off, while MEPs hear from the European Court of Auditors on the Commission's long-term budget plans, and also discuss EU funds to help workers.

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On Monday, the European Parliamentary Week 2026 kicks off, which brings together Parliamentarians from the EU, candidate and observer countries to discuss the EU’s economic direction, budgetary choices and social priorities. The Committee on Budgets will hold an Inter-Committee Meeting at 15.30-18.30 (meeting room: ANTALL 4Q1). The discussion will focus on the long-term EU budget, reviewing its overall architecture, and the proposed reforms and new features on both the revenue and expenditure sides with remarks by Budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin; Pascal Saint-Amans of the Bruegel think tank; Séamus Boland, president of the European Economic and Social Committee; and Kata Tüttő, president of the Committee of the Regions. You will find the agenda and practical information here.

On Tuesday afternoon, between 16.30 and 19.00, at a joint meeting of the Committees on Budgets, Regional Development and Agriculture and Rural Development (meeting room: SPAAK 3C050), MEPs will hear the presentation of the European Court of Auditors’ opinion concerning the proposal for a regulation establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034. The proposed Fund would merge several major EU spending strands into a single framework and introduce National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPP) as the main planning instrument. The ECA assessment provides an independent analysis of the governance, flexibility and control arrangements of this new funding architecture. The rapporteurs for the file are Karlo Ressler (EPP, HR), Andrey Novakov (EPP, BG), and Elsi Katainen (Renew, FI).

On Thursday, at the meeting of the Budgets Committee (in meeting room: SPINELLI 3E-2), MEPs will vote on a Commission proposal to mobilise €1.6 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) to help 267 workers dismissed in Belgium after the bankruptcy and closure of Tupperware Belgium in February 2025. The draft report was prepared by rapporteur Jean-Marc Germain (S&D, FR).

Later the same day, MEPs will discuss two similar proposals by the Commission. One of the proposals is on €1.9 million EU support for 416 workers in Belgium who lost their jobs after the home decoration retail chain Casa was declared bankrupt in March 2025. Hélder Sousa Silva (EPP, PT) is responsible for this file. The other EGF proposal is about €1.8 million of EU support for 420 dismissed workers in Austria after motorcycle manufacturer KTM stopped production in April 2025 due to high losses and plummeting sales. The draft report was prepared by rapporteur Janusz Lewandowski (EPP, PL).

Still on Thursday, rapporteur Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP, CY) will lead the discussion with the vice-presidents of the European Parliament responsible for the budget and the Secretary-General of the EP on the estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2027 for Parliament.

The Commission will also give an update on the financial programming for 2027.