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Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023

Effect
Passed
Result
531 for · 91 against · 35 abstained roll call
Date
22 October 2024, 13:08
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (9)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Text
Report A-10-2024-0005
Dossier
2024/0089(BUD)
Source
Committee report by Siegfried Mureşan
Topics
EU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
2 votes · 2 roll calls
Requested by
Patriots (1 roll call)
Sitting
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Final vote
169890
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Votes on this decision
Members on the final vote

Result

The final vote and what it means for this kind of decision.

Final vote: 531 for, 91 against, 35 abstained (roll call).

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

The budget decision was approved.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 1 part of the text voted on separately (1 adopted).

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP and ECR; opposed by Patriots and ESN.

Groups

Members' votes, each counted in the group they belonged to on the day. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Majority line: the most common position. Clear line: a position with at least two thirds of the group's votes (at least 10 members voting), otherwise Divided. Cohesion: Agreement Index, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same (method).
GroupForAgainstAbst.No voteMajority lineClear lineCohesionBar
The LeftFor 37Against 1Abst. 5No vote 3 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.79
GreensFor 51Against 0Abst. 0No vote 2 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 121Against 0Abst. 0No vote 15 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 68Against 0Abst. 3No vote 6 of 77Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.94
EPPFor 170Against 0Abst. 2No vote 16 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
ECRFor 56Against 9Abst. 6No vote 7 of 78Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.68
PatriotsFor 26Against 46Abst. 9No vote 5 of 86Majority line AgainstClear line Divided Cohesion 0.35
ESNFor 0Against 21Abst. 1No vote 3 of 25Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.93
No groupFor 2Against 14Abst. 9No vote 5 of 30Majority line —Clear line No line Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS changed group, Diego SOLIER changed group, Elena YONCHEVA changed group, Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group, Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group, Fernand KARTHEISER changed group, Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group, Laurent CASTILLO changed group, Lukas SIEPER changed group, Malika SOREL changed group, Milan MAZUREK changed group, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Nora JUNCO GARCÍA changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Roberto VANNACCI changed group, Sander SMIT changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 27

Members who voted otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds of the votes cast, at least 10 members voting) of the group they sat in that day. A group without a clear line is divided and not counted.

Countries

The final vote by national delegation.

Votes by country (27 delegations)
Members' votes by country. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Cohesion: Agreement Index of the delegation, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all the same; it reflects the mix of groups (method).
CountryForAgainstAbst.No voteCohesion
Austria145010.61
Belgium143500.45
Bulgaria113030.68
Cyprus4011—
Czechia111900.29
Germany6518490.62
Denmark121110.79
Estonia5011—
Spain466080.83
Finland130021.00
France4434030.35
Greece144210.55
Croatia100021.00
Hungary182010.85
Ireland110120.88
Italy680081.00
Lithuania8012—
Luxembourg6000—
Latvia9000—
Malta4002—
Netherlands242230.79
Poland475010.86
Portugal160320.76
Romania232080.88
Sweden172110.78
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia83400.30

Members

Each member’s recorded position on the final roll call, in the group they sat in that day. Filter by country, group, position or name.

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Debate speakers and how they voted

No plenary speech is linked to this dossier.

All votes on this decision, 2

In voting order. Result: for–against–abstained (a show of hands has no count). Requested by: the groups that asked for a roll call, a split vote or a separate vote.
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
1Separate vote on paragraph 6 A10-0005/2024 – Siegfried Mureşan – § 6 Roll call417 for, 192 against, 50 abstained AdoptedRequested byroll call: Patriots
2Final vote — text as a whole A10-0005/2024 – Siegfried Mureşan – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call531 for, 91 against, 35 abstained Adopted

Roll call requested by Patriots.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2024-0005

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The draft amending budget enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget.

Parliament approved the Council position, meaning the spending was approved.

Parliament also urges the Council to adopt proposals on own resources reform to increase revenue.

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Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2024/0089(BUD) · Budgetary procedure

Draft amending budget no 2 to the general budget 2024 entering the surplus of the financial year 2023

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 10 December 2024 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 7 October 2024 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 7 October 2024 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 8 October 2024 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 22 October 2024 (done)
  5. Published as law · 10 December 2024 (done)

Lead committee: BUDG · Rapporteur: Siegfried MUREŞAN (EPP)

Connections

What this decision touches: the procedural chain, the same text, running issues, votes that split the chamber the same way.

Show 14 connections: Running issue: Annual budget procedure · Other decisions of the part-session on BUDG dossiers · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: Annual budget procedure

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Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-10-22/3
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Data source
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Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2024). “Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023”. Decision, 22 October 2024. votingId 169890, document A-10-2024-0005, reference 2024/0089(BUD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-10-22/3 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 22 October 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-10-22-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 22 October 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-10-22-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-10-22, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2024-10-22/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2024-10-22-3,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023}},
  year = {2024},
  date = {2024-10-22},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-10-22/3}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-10-22/3},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 169890, document A-10-2024-0005, reference 2024/0089(BUD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-10-22-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-10-22-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-10-22 (CC BY 4.0)}
}