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We now move on to speakers on behalf of the political groups and for the EPP,

Madam Benjam President, Commissioner, Minister.

The budget is the origin and the reason for a Parliament. It's the ultimate democratic act.

It's the Implementation of our responses to challenges and solutions to problems.

The draft budget that we're putting forward shows once again that the Parliament is fulfilling its democratic mandate.

And despite the multiple restrictions,

the budget we've proposed provides a response to the main needs and challenges facing the EU.

The focus of this annual budget is repaying the debt on the next generation program. We can't allow that.

This will ensure cuts to other very successful European programs.

Or that it should have an impact on citizens' pockets.

The European Parliament is satisfied with the proposal that we're putting forward to today because we,

it reflects the challenges that we faced in recent months.

And so I'd like to thank the rapporteur, Mr. Ushakov and the whole negotiating team.

We believe that strengthening the competitive capacity of our businesses, entrepreneurs, SMEs,

must be an absolute priority to ensure that they can invest and create jobs.

And this is reflected in the 370 million increase on the competitiveness, chat,

chapter, defense and border security, as well as fighting illegal migration. Are also a priority for the EU.

That's why we welcome the increased budget for Frontex and the border management tool.

So that we can put an end to unacceptable events such as what we saw in CETA this summer.

The support and funds that we provide to third countries should be made conditional to complying with agreements when it comes to border management and migration.

These are funds that have been looked at in minute detail to ensure that they're not funding anything that runs counter to EU principles. I authentic.

And then, the primary sector must also be a priority.

The Council has suggested cuts, but we want to make it clear that agriculture is a priority for the EU.

Overall, we think it's a good proposal, and we hope we can reach a good agreement with the Council. Thank you, Madam, Madam Gomez Lopez.

In this budget, we decide what role we want Europe to play in the world and we want to have influence,

we need resources.

Therefore,

we Socialists have defended recovering €14 million from the EEAS.

It's important to have staff there and to have diplomatic capacity.

And I want to highlight that because when we have cuts, With plans to reduce its competences and to concentrate power under Ursula von der Leyen,

we should be concerned what kind of Europe we're projecting across the world.

Because concentrating power in the Commission does not make Europe stronger.

And our diplomacy cannot pay the price for this dispute.

And then there's also an extra €40 million for humanitarian aid, 60 million for southern neighborhood, for example,

and we also need to have assistance in the Palestinian Authority because supporting the Palestinian Authority and sustaining UNRWA needs to be a priority,

and it shouldn't be about, about how we defend international law consistently. It should be done across the board. And there's also very limited budgetary margins.

This is the last budget in the current MFF, and it shows that we are on the brink.

We cannot ask for more and more Europe, yet constantly postponing how we fund that.

For that reason, we need an agreement on new own resources for the next MFF.

If we don't have the revenue,

we will not be able to meet all of the needs exterior action, for example, research, agriculture.

Europe needs the ability to act,

and that ability is decided on when we decide who will contribute to fund it. Thank you. Thank you very much Liliana Sánchez.

This draft 2027 budget, like each budget since the Southeast, is disgraceful, a result of poor management. It's a socialist budget.

Instead of looking for alternative majority,

the EPP has chosen to set up here a majority making made up of renew and S&D. So the right is sausage of left. Will it change in future years? Well, yes, certainly, given the Patriots' current. Outcomes across the face of Europe. I'm happy about that. A Patriot budget will be different.

We want the union to basically focus on what's covered by the text high diplomatic spending for the External Action Service,

housing, health, which are not European competencies but have to remain in the hands of member states.

So we've put an end to waste, which It happens across the face in the EU institutions,

Committee of the Regions, European Economic, Social Committee, Commission, Parliament.

I mean, you've seen the work on a wing of the building in Brussels for half a billion. It's ridiculous.

Well, you've got your ideology on the Greer Deal as well.

Business is calling for suspension of all of this woke ideology, the, the undermining our identity.

And we're not only seeing that in France, so we need to support the food sovereignty through defending our farmers,

and that's why patriots have come up with a large number of amendments which are going to be voted on tomorrow and 34% on the resolution.

Thank you to my colleagues for their excellent work in resisting by my side. Thank you. Thank you, Beata Szo.

Thank you very much President, Commissioner, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen.

This is the final budget within the current multiannual financial framework, and we should be drawing conclusions from the Wasted opportunities,

opportunities that we have let go wasted over the last few years when we did not enhance competitiveness of the European economy,

we did not sufficiently support European enterprises and businesses,

and right now we need to focus on our defense capabilities.

So I believe that as we negotiate future budgets to come.

We will draw conclusions from the many errors that we have committed.

There are so many elements that are not important, not vital to Europeans and to Europe.

I take note of the fact that some of the proposals of my political group, of the ECR Group,

have been accepted concerning better support for farmers,

and I invite us to maintain the Regional Development Fund for the future periods. Thank you very much.

President, colleagues,

the 2027 budget is the last one of this current MFF.

That's why it's so important that we focus on the priorities of the European Union.

Europe must stop subsidizing the past and instead invest in the future.

We need more investment, especially when it comes to European goods,

more Erasmus, more research in Horizon and future technologies.

Doesn't just need to be Elon Musk creating technology. Europe can also technology.

We need to do that for the future.

We need to invest more in common European infrastructure, and we must do more for our defense.

That's what we need to concentrate on, and we must be courageous enough to say,

well, we perhaps should spend less on other things.

And we as Parliament need to be resolute on this and work with the Council to ensure that these priorities are included in the next MFF. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed.

I'd like to thank the rapporteur for the excellent work on the compromises.

We believe that the Parliament has established the right priorities.

We're looking at young people, health, protection of the environment, but also on humanitarian aid.

The world is burning, and in member states there is decreasing readiness to provide. Something for humanitarian aid.

The crises which are happening elsewhere are crises as well,

and they could become an even greater problem if we don't manage to do something about it through partnership.

Well, 2 million people have been forced out of their homes, very limited basic care, and we have to make sure that we are doing much more on that front,

and I'm Saying that against the backdrop of what we're seeing now, the problems that we have with our budgets,

they have far too little flexibility or leeway,

and so that problem then is going through into the new MFF.

Member states have made proposals which would mean that in this framework of neighborhood policy,

global policy, but on humanitarian aid as well, we would have further cuts.

Now, so that's why it's very good that we're ensuring here that we are making more of a focus on this from the Parliament side,

although it's only a small step now. Some colleagues have also talked about this.

This is the last budget in the old framework that we should ensure for the Next, MFF,

we have more leeway and cuts in the future through the work being done by the Council now.

All that's going to be lacking in the long run.

So in 234 years, once again under the new MFF, we're going to be standing here and saying,

well, we can't do enough, the flexibility is too limited. And so let's not make that mistake.

Let's establish a decent budget right now with a clear plea to Council as well to move towards a Parliament,

and let's ensure under the MFF then that we don't repeat the former construction errors and that the main member states have a clear commitment to compromise. Thank you. President.

The EU is increasingly a federal project that turns its back on the people.

It's turning towards war, multinationals, and the arms industry.

The most recent CAP policy has shown that.

We are taking money from cohesion policies and we're trying to fund our race towards militarization and arming.

We are cutting cohesion funds and social investment.

We have put forward other solutions trying to strengthen cohesion.

Social policies, public policies to try to address poverty and the increasing cost of living,

or increasing housing costs to try to reduce social inequalities.

We've proposed a suspension of military expenditure and to try to spend this money on peace and social stability,

and all of this has been ignored because political choices have run in the opposite direction. We see more inequality.

There is no more money for cohesion fund, for development funds, for the regional development funds.

We see money for military spending, for border management.

There you do find the money, you're spending millions on that.

We're seeing this spiral towards war, and that's just going to support the arms industry.

Supporting Ukraine is going to cost billions of euros,

and there's nothing good that will compensate for this move towards neoliberal militarism and runs against people's rights. I'll now give the floor to Mr.

Jungbluth, and before I hand over the floor, I would like to wish our quest and Madame Fabienne Keller, a very happy birthday. Mr. Jungbluth, you have the floor. In in Gambia.

If we look at what's happening in Gambia, Gambia, for example, we see more and more buildings in the EU across the world.

European taxpayers are funding decadent projects, and this has been going on for decades,

but rather than Acknowledging what citizens have done and what citizens are contributing,

no, people are vilified, people who are working are being vilified.

But now the European Parliament wants €1.2 billion more in the budget than the Commission has proposed proposed.

We know what kind of fantasies people have about the next MFF in this house.

But this is not just a fantasy here, this is madness. Have you forgotten?

Who you are representing here in Parliament, it's the citizens of the member states.

Do you really believe that even a minority of European citizens would support such increases. €10 billion.

That's just the interest rates for the recovery fund.

And then if we look at the implementation of that fund,

it was catastrophic, and we haven't really seen much impact from it.

Only we right wing forces in Europe have talked about the catastrophic effects of this fund.

EU through this fund and through flawed spending policy has shown how weak it is. We need to have a balanced budget. We don't need.

The things that the colleagues in this house are proposing, which are completely decoupled from reality,

we need to know where this money is coming from and how it's managed.

But it, that would mean setting different priorities.

It would be about bolstering agriculture, be about bolstering the economy.

And if we were to bolster the economy, then the Greer Deal would most certainly be abolished.

We need to see budgetary discipline so that we can cut expenditure to ensure there is a balanced budget. Thank you. Thank you very much.

I would like to give the floor to Mr. Karlo Ressler for 2.5 minutes. Commissioner, dear colleagues.

The negotiations on the next multiannual financial framework and own resources,

but also for the 2027 EU budget, are a test of the EU's political seriousness.

The 2027 budget marks the final year of the current financial framework and will definitely send an important signal ahead and in the negotiations on the next MFF.

At a time of growing global competition and security threats,

we cannot afford to get caught up in the narrow budgetary disputes and lose sight of the bigger picture.

The decision we take on Europe's finances will definitely shape our ability to act in the next year,

but also the long term.

We must approach all these issues with a clear sense of responsibility, but also of urgency.

Europe needs the ambition and resources to meet the challenges ahead. First, competitiveness.

Parliament proposes top ups for research, innovation, for digital technologies and European infrastructure.

These are investments we must defend to strengthen Europe's economic and technological competitiveness. Secondly, security.

We are calling for stronger investments in defense, in military mobility and continued support for Ukraine.

In light of the increased pressures on the external borders,

we are proposing 40 million investment more in border management.

Because we believe that the resources to protect its citizens and strategic interests are essential for Europe.

Third, Parliament proposes strengthened funding for European farmers, and at the same time, also in the MFF negotiations,

we are calling and defending cohesion policy that supports infrastructure, jobs and regional development.

This is why we obviously oppose the Council's proposed cuts and insist on securing adequate funding for Europe's key priorities.

Now it's time to show political responsibility, to solve the budget for the next year, but also to bring these negotiations to a successful conclusion,

so we can focus on the real discussions and on the real negotiations in the framework of the Multiannual Financial Framework. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Now I would like to give the floor to Mr. Victor Negrescu, Vice President of the European Parliament. Commissioner, colleagues.

The budget for 2027 is the last budget in the current programming period.

And this comes with a special kind of responsibility,

which means we have to deliver on our promises and to protect European investments and make sure that no community is left behind.

We can't start a new financial exercise while we still have unpaid bills, unfinished projects, and disappointed citizens,

which is why we ask the Commission and the Council to identify a legal solution in order to extend the deadline for the payments in the RRF.

The member states need support to relaunch their economies, not austerity.

We need to finance local development products, agriculture, health, and we need to support, competitiveness and the areas that were affected by, natural disasters,

which is why I want to thank, you for, supporting my amendments for the Bucharest,

cybersecurity Center and for the security of the Black Sea. Thank you. Thank you very much. I invite Mr. Thomas Thomas Deutsch. To take the floor. Thank you.

The 2027 budget is what we're talking about,

and the representatives of Fidesz here in the Patriots Group. Have supported several amendments.

And in those amendments what we are asking for. Is that next year's budget.

Should see the unconditional and immediate disbursement of the EU funds that the EU that the Hungarian people are entitled to,

and for all of those, that's 6. €4 billion.

In 2022, the European Commission engaged in political blackmail.

And Called for those funds to be frozen,

that is from EU cohesion funds.

But Viktor Orbán negotiated hard to Receive more of that money back,

but the Tisa government has given up on that €2.1 billion.

And that money is what the Hungarian people are entitled to.

That money, where is it going to go?

According to what the Commission is saying, that money is going to go to Ukraine.

Our amendments seek to ensure that that money goes back to the Hungarian people. Thank you very much. Now Mr.sinski will take the floor.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, very often we hear that Brussels lives in their own bubble which is devoid of any links to the actual life of Europeans,

and the 2027 draft budget is one of the best examples in case,

as we discuss prices of energy and Europeans' problems.

This budget fails to give answers to these challenges. The Greer deal is killing European farming.

Production is becoming less and less profitable, and our farmers are losing as they compete with Mercosur,

for instance, countries, and you are pushing the cost of the Greer Deal over. Their shoulders.

Secondly, proposals made by Ursula von der Leyen concerning loans,

the loans are becoming more and more expensive.

On the one hand, we have migrants that are setting Paris streets on fire.

At the same time, we don't have adequate resources for protecting our borders. This is a disaster budget. There is a blue card from Messo. Would you accept?

Dear colleague, you are complaining about the Greer Deal, but it was your government,

the Law and Justice government was introducing the Greer Deal. Your commissioner, Mr. Wojciechowski.

Treated the Greer Deal as an excellent proposal, and Mr.

Kaczynski was telling farmers to use the Greer Deal, make use of it,

so that they are in the mainstream of European developments, and you are complaining about the Greer Deal here in this Parliament.

A Greer Deal has been constructed by your government. Well, thank you very much, dear colleague.

With all due respect, I understand that this is your first term of office in the European Parliament, so you might as well as I am.

So you might not have a full insight into the way your colleagues voted.

You were supporting all, all directives related to the Greer Deal, each and every one of them,

and now you are asking us to go back on all those crazy ideas that you have implemented.

It's you who are responsible, responsible, and our party in Poland has nothing to do with that. Madame Tso.

Well, yes, one more question if I may.

Do you, are you familiar with the provisions of the Greer Deal, the requirement of laying fallow land, arable land,

and this is what has been the objective of the protests of our farmers and all other stupidities that you have agreed to. Well, thank you very much. 30 seconds for your answer. Well, thank you very much.

Well, dear colleague, I can agree to one thing.

Donald Tusk has has, liquidated so many things in Poland that they shouldn't have been liquidated,

shouldn't have been abolished, and which supported our development. I understand that there is no more.

The possibility of continuing this conversation here on this forum, but I am not really sure whether you are fully familiar with the way you voted,

your party voted on all of those directives and you have implemented them.

President, Commissioner, Minister, colleagues, this week we will be adopting Parliament's position on the 2027 budget,

the last one under the current MFF.

Now the negotiations for the current MFF took place during the COVID period,

but we had no idea that post-COVID Europe would be facing a war when Russia invaded Ukraine.

That wasn't in our plans, but we've had to enhance flexibility and our inventiveness to adapt the budget to our needs.

It's often said that Europe only makes headway during crises, so.

We are now negotiating, Minister, the next MFF, and if the Council proposals don't become more ambitious,

then we're heading straight for the wall. We need our own resources.

European citizens are expecting a strong, competitive Europe that's able to defend them,

to give them a future, an ambitious Europe which meets.

The future health security environmental challenges, and that will only be possible with own resources. Young generations are looking at us. They're counting on us. Let's be there for them. Thank you. Thank you very much, Madam MP.

May I hand it over to Madam Ohisalo for 2 minutes please.

Thank you, Commissioner, Council, colleagues,

people are on the streets because they were promised things they never got.

Because they are worried They are worried about the rent they can no longer afford, about energy bills,

about whether their children will have a good school, a decent job, a future.

Even these basic promises were not delivered in Europe.

At the same time, the climate crisis poses a huge threat for all of us,

but especially for the young generations who have to live with the consequences.

If Europe does not answer these everyday life worries, others will, and they will do that with fear. Instead of solutions.

Europe needs to invest in people, in resilience, in well-being.

Every euro we put into the European Social Fund Plus, into the Child Guarantee,

into Erasmus, into affordable housing and health comes back many times over.

In skills, in cohesion, in trust, in democracy.

The Council wants cuts, but you cannot build a competitive Europe on a weakened social fabric.

You cannot ask people to support defense,

competitiveness or the Greer Deal transition if they fear that they are being left behind.

And security does matter, and security also means a warm home,

a secure income and a child who does not grow up in poverty.

So let us defend a budget that really invests in people. Miss, Ms.

Ohisalo, Miss er blue card for you from Mr. Budura. That Can you wait for, OK. Mr.

No Ladies and gentlemen, Madam MEP,

I can't believe what I hear.

The people who are devastating, robbing and destroying the output of Europe,

they now call for more money and to absolve them from what they do, they can. Do whatever they please.

Please do not justify such actions, because then we will have total riots in the European Union.

I know that they do not protest against the Commissioner who represents the budget,

but let us not justify the situation. President, thank you.

No, I don't think that anyone in this room can support violence and destruction of common goods,

and I Cannot support anyone who doesn't want to invest in the future,

wealthy future where we take into consideration the climate crisis. We have to listen to people's worries.

We have to take them seriously,

especially the right wing politicians don't care for these everyday worries of citizens. Gross. Thank you very much, Mr. Yusi Sarama, 1 minute and a half.

Thank you, the specificity of the EU budget is to decide about their levels for 7 years at a time,

and as the last budget of the old era MFF, this does not reflect the European needs of today.

Small good improvements to protect people and the environment get overshadowed by the inequality and price crisis caused by the right wing. Economic policies.

The tiny increase made to the humanitarian aid to Palestine addresses a soaring need,

but it will be a mere plaster so long as Israel continues its genocide.

I consider it extremely important to continue the support to Ukraine,

as well as the increases, albeit modest, suggested to the European defense cooperation.

We must get rid of our dependence on the US and Israeli war machinery.

However, we should all look around ourselves a bit.

Europe is weak,

and that is why the next European budget for the next 7 years should be reconstructed altogether.

Of our competitors, China is perhaps internally a ruthless capitalistic system, but in the end the state will decide about everything.

Russia is a state-led war economy and the US federal budget is over 23% of the GDP.

In the EU member states are puttering with their own themes, and the budget is only a little over 1% of the GDP.

And on top of all,

the biggest cost item forming this percentage is represented by the aid to the farm land owners.

How can anyone imagine that with this kind of a system we can keep pace with the US and China? Thank you. Now, Mr. Arnold Koller, one minute.

I can't see him, so let me hand it over to.

So Luis Vincenzo Lazarus, 1 minute and a half. Mr. President, colleagues. There's a problem.

I was flabbergasted to learn that we're going to give 100 million extra to Ukraine, and this during. The 2028, 2034 MFF.

I'm wondering whether the European Commission knows something that we don't,

that is that this war will go on for that much, another six years.

I thought the war is about to end.

But now I see that we provide financing for an additional 6 or 7 years.

If you want to cut something, you need to know where to cut from.

I looked at the MFF and I noticed, I looked at the agriculture,

there were about 400 billion for agriculture in the current budget.

Now you took about 100 billion and we are left with just 300 billion. So what are we doing? Are we sacrificing our food security?

For the pseudosecurity that we get from financing the Russian-Ukrainian war,

I don't know what to say because I saw the big cities in Europe which are burning not because of Ukrainian or Russian drones.

And we know of Ukrainian drones in Romania, but they are burning.

Because of the left wing, left wing protesters supported also by migrants,

they are suffering because of the huge life living cost which were caused by the poor.

Thank you very much, Madam K Kingakolar, for 2 minutes. Thank you very much, Thank you. There's one thing that is clear.

There is very little room for maneuver in the 2027 budget, yet the EU is facing more and more challenges.

I don't agree with the proposals for cuts by the Council. We shouldn't be cutting resources more.

No, we need to direct them towards what European citizens and Hungarian citizens need.

There are 3 areas where I think that the budget needs to be increased.

We need to improve SME competitiveness because It's vital for society. Secondly, we need to fund. The action against fraud as well.

And then thirdly, Erasmus plus needs to be increased.

Because once again, all Hungarians can now enjoy that program, but we need to have proper resources to fund that.

Now, of course, I also welcome The additional funds perhaps for agriculture,

but when it comes to migration, Europe is also facing significant challenges.

It's undisputable that the EU needs stronger external border protection and therefore we could rightly ask why is Hungary paying daily €1 million in fines when the EU is putting more and more focus on stemming illegal migration and bolstering external borders.

Colleagues, if Europe wants to do more, it needs to have a proper budget to do so.

And Hungary is part of that budget,

and I have A little bit of time and I would like to refute what Mr. Deutsch said.

The Tiso government did not give up on the €2 billion that Orbán negotiated. No.

We have already got 101 billion back in the MFF negotiations and we continue to fight. Thank you.

Commissioner,

the EU is facing a crisis and a convergence of crises that is unprecedented.

Families are strangled by the cost of energy. Young people are in the streets.

Whole territories are being destroyed by climate change.

There are wars in the Middle East and Ukraine that threaten the whole of Europe.

These crises go beyond our borders, they're national, but the responses are European.

We have to work together to roll out renewables, connect our grids, to bring down energy costs,

and to ensure that we are no longer dependent on fossil fuel.

We have to unite our industrial efforts to create quality jobs.

And take our future back in our own hands.

We have to use the means that we need to ensure that our territories can fight droughts and floods and fires that know no borders.

The drastic cuts proposed by the Council is therefore incomprehensible. It's time.

To recognize that a weak budget means a weak Europe and a weak Europe will not serve our citizens. The European Parliament suggested a different path.

We believe that our proposal should be the basis for future negotiations because our priorities are the priorities that this time demands.

We believe that finally we should be respecting a promise that was made in 2020 that the European budget should not be used for servicing debts and that own resources should cover that. That's the European Parliament's proposal. Thank you very much. May I hand it over to Mr. Button for one minute, please. Mr.

Thank you, Commissioner,

the draft budget for 2027 is yet another stage of federalization of the EU and drainage on EU pockets.

You not only want to approve of cuts suggested by the Council,

but also add millions for Erasmus and also other.

Excessive spending versus not really sound economics, so no conditionality,

no increases of country contributions, no deindustrialization via Greer.

Deal, no interventions beyond the European Union because this does not serve EU nations.

Any cuts that are suggested should go in the direction of cutting down on red tape. Limitation of instruments that promote detrimental ideologies.

If there is any money left, it should go for agriculture.

Thank you very much, Blue card from Madame Tiso. Would you accept it? Yes, please, madam. Mr.

MEP, if I understand you are against Erasmus Plus,

do you know what are the contents of Erasmus Plus? Can you tell me? Yes, yes, Madam, I know, I know.

First and foremost, I'm against the bad way of spending of EU money,

so we have priorities. We live in dangerous and trying times.

There are trade threats, there are political threats, and you want.

Spend money on projects that are not of the priority line,

so I'm against you and your political line.

So we should improve our competitiveness, our defense, and then we will spend in other directions as well.

For the time being we are short of funds. Thank you, Madam Tiso. Would you like to respond? I would like for you, Mr. MEP, to respond to my question.

Do you know who are beneficiaries of Erasmus Plus? Do you know who they are? Who, who receives money from Erasmus Plu?

Do you know it or don't you know it?

Because, because if you're against something, you should know what stands behind it, and you don't know. You don't know what is Erasmus for.

I'm a teacher by profession, and you want to examine me in such an impudent way.

Erasmus serves the traveling of young people in order to improve their knowledge in order to be able to.

Study beyond the borders of their home country. Nevertheless, it is not a priority action. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. MEP.

I do respect, I do invite everyone to be more respectful. Now, Mr. Rivera Icaza, one minute. Thank you.

Colleagues, We're looking at the last year of the MFF and and still preparing the next one,

and the debate tells us that 2027 is not going to be a year that gives us answers.

It's not going to be a year for answers for business owners who are asking for greater competitiveness.

We're not going to be dealing with that.

It's not going to be giving us answers for our border control in the east and the south.

It's not going to give us answers for the Mediterranean.

Now, I wanted to give you those two examples to tell you that we remain firm and we have a clear position,

according to which the European Union needs to do less, but do it better.

As the minister has said, negotiations are still ongoing.

It's probably an error now to give us all of the little jobs that we've got at the moment with lots of little increases,

but with no real clear direction. Thank you very much, Mrs. Yar. Please, one minute.

Commissioner, colleagues, this Parliament is right to invest in what matters to Europeans students through Erasmus,

innovation through Horizon Europe,

the fight against financial crime through a stronger EPPO and nature protection through LIFE.

But a people centered EU budget must also protect fundamental rights,

especially when national governments fail to do so.

Women's health, dignity and freedom of choice are no exceptions, and for Renew Europe,

it is one of the core priorities for which we have fought and for which we will be also fighting in the upcoming conciliation.

My Voice, My Choice initiative has opened the door for Member States to use the European Solidarity Fund to support access to safe and legal abortion,

and we as Parliament mentioning it there.

The framework exists, the funding possibilities are there.

What is missing is the political will to act from the Member States' side. The Commission must make these possibilities clear.

The Member States must step up,

because money is there now let us turn solidarity into action through next year's EU budget. Thank you very much. Now, Mr. Tricarico, one minute. Thank you, Commissioner.

We are seeing protests in Italy, France, Spain, and Belgium against the high cost of living, sky high fuel prices, and a lack of costing.

When we respond with the 2027 budget based on the combination of austerity and rearmament,

not one cent is going to tackle high rents or the high cost of living.

In the proposal that we will vote on, a further €5 million is going to the European Defense Fund, €20 million to military mobility, and 7 million.

To the defense industry, appropriations on top of national funding for rearmament, Italy alone 14 million.

Instead, what we are proposing is a European tax credit for farmers.

Similar to the Shaw fund and fed by attacks on the excessive profits of oil multinationals.

And this would help farmers who today are blocking the roads in Calabria,

in Puglia in the south of Italy and in other parts of Europe as well.

We should listen to the cries of pain from our region. The money is there.

Let's take it from excessive profits and not from the pockets of our citizens. In the US. They are doing things far better. Investing.

In new industries, China is investing in heavy industry in Africa.

We invest in climate, energy, and transexual law. We want to wage war against Russia.

But you've lost the war against illegal migrants.

We can see that in Paris and elsewhere.

The EU is a joke around the world.

You're spending your time talking about why the budget has not set aside funding for abortion for all.

You're dealing with nonsense and we're lagging behind. The Greer Deal has failed. Armaments policy has failed.

Living standards are growing everywhere else but not in the European Union.

If you spend so much time wasting money, then disaster looms.