Speeches

Since the European Commission presented the proposal for the financial framework for the period 2028-2034 in July, our group has expressed a critical position and expressed our concern about the architecture of the future MFF and we have informed its President accordingly. This weekend, the European Commission presented an informal paper with a proposal on national plans. We found that this document does not respond to our demands, neither as a S&D Group nor as a European Parliament, since the risk of renationalisation persists, conditionality linked to the European Semester is maintained, there is no response to our proposal that the European Social Fund retain a specific and reinforced budget line, the legislative framework should be more binding as regards the participation of the regions and the introduction of the so-called "rural objective" is clearly insufficient to ensure the integrity of the two pillars of the CAP. Today opens a debate that will last about a year. Rejecting the proposal would require a majority which does not currently exist in this Parliament. The S&D Group will therefore be critical, but will be actively involved in negotiations within the European Parliament and subsequently with the Commission and the Council to improve it.