2026 budgetary procedure: joint text

2025/0210(BUD) · Budgetary procedure

Procedure 2025/0210(BUD) (budgetary procedure) concerns “2026 budgetary procedure: joint text”; the committee responsible is BUDE (Conciliation Committee delegation (budget)). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 26 Feb 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 26 Nov 2025 (final vote): adopted with 419 votes in favour, 185 against and 53 abstentions.

Reference
2025/0210(BUD)
Type
Budgetary procedure
Official title
General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 - all sections
Status
Completed
Lead
BUDE Conciliation Committee delegation (budget)
BUDG Budgets
Opinion
AFCO Constitutional Affairs
AFET Foreign Affairs (opinion: Michael Gahler (EPP, Germany))
AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development (opinion: Dario Nardella (S&D, Italy))
CONT Budgetary Control (opinion: Niclas Herbst (EPP, Germany))
CULT Culture and Education (opinion: Hélder Sousa Silva (EPP, Portugal))
DEVE Development (opinion: Charles Goerens (Renew, Luxembourg))
ECON Economic and Monetary Affairs (opinion: Marlena Maląg (ECR, Poland))
EMPL Employment and Social Affairs (opinion: Romana Tomc (EPP, Slovenia))
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety (opinion: Antonio Decaro (S&D, Italy))
FEMM Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (opinion: Lina Gálvez (S&D, Spain))
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection (opinion: Maria Grapini (S&D, Romania))
INTA International Trade
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy (opinion: Eero Heinäluoma (S&D, Finland))
JURI Legal Affairs
LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (opinion: Evin Incir (S&D, Sweden))
PECH Fisheries
PETI Petitions (opinion: Bogdan Rzońca (ECR, Poland))
REGI Regional Development (opinion: Gabriella Gerzsenyi (EPP, Hungary))
SANT Public Health (opinion: Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP, Cyprus))
SEDE Security and Defence (opinion: Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (Renew, Germany))
TRAN Transport and Tourism
Rapporteurs
Ilhan Kyuchyuk (Renew, Bulgaria), Andrzej Halicki (EPP, Poland), Matjaž Nemec (S&D, Slovenia), Giuseppe Lupo (S&D, Italy), Gheorghe Falcă (EPP, Romania)
Shadow rapporteurs
João Oliveira (The Left, Portugal), Ignazio Roberto Marino (Greens/EFA, Italy), Nicolae Ștefănuță (Greens/EFA, Romania), Nils Ušakovs (S&D, Latvia), Fabienne Keller (Renew, France), Stine Bosse (Renew, Denmark), Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP, Cyprus), Ruggero Razza (ECR, Italy), Julien Sanchez (PfE, France), Tamás Deutsch (PfE, Hungary), Alexander Jungbluth (ESN, Germany)
Opinions
62 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Votes in the Council of the EU

  • 17 Oct 2025: Council (Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs), Non-approval of the EP's Amendments: adopted; Member states: 27 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions. All 27 member states in favour. Result at the Council of the EU
  • 24 Nov 2025: Council (Foreign Affairs), Approval of the Conciliation Committee joint text: adopted; Member states: 22 for, 1 against, 4 abstentions. Against: Sweden; Abstained: Austria, Finland, Hungary, Netherlands. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

  1. 24 Jul 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
  2. 6 Nov 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
  3. 22 Apr 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  4. 20 May 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
  5. 6 Jun 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  6. 13 Jun 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  7. 16 Jun 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  8. 18 Jun 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  9. 30 Jun 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  10. 1 Jul 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
  11. 3 Jul 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  12. 11 Jul 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  13. 15 Jul 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  14. 16 Jul 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  15. 17 Jul 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation (5 times, most recently on 15 Nov 2025)
  16. 18 Jul 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
  17. 1 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  18. 3 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  19. 4 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  20. 8 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  21. 19 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  22. 24 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  23. 6 Oct 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  24. 13 Oct 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  25. 14 Oct 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  26. 21 Oct 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
  27. 15 Nov 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  28. 19 Nov 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  29. 25 Nov 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
  30. 26 Nov 2025: Signature
  31. 26 Feb 2026: Publication in the Official Journal

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Votes in the Council: Council of the European Union, voting results (consilium.europa.eu), reused with acknowledgement of the source under Decision (EU) 2017/1842; population figures from the Council’s Rules of Procedure (Annex III, Official Journal of the EU). Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Names of steps, roles and procedure types from the European Parliament’s vocabulary.