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Draft amending budget No 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025

Effect
Passed
Result
492 for · 101 against · 60 abstained roll call
Date
7 July 2026, 13:35–13:36
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (9)
Margin
by a large majority
Text
Report A-10-2026-0180
Dossier
2026/0090(BUD)
Source
Committee report by Andrzej Halicki
Topics
EU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
12 votes · 5 roll calls · 3 amendments
Requested by
Patriots (1 roll call, 1 split vote, 1 separate vote)
Sitting
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Final vote
194890
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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: 492 for, 101 against, 60 abstained (roll call).

Passed by a large majority.

The budget decision was approved.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 3 amendments (3 rejected) and 8 parts of the text voted on separately (5 adopted, 3 rejected).

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 17Against 3Abst. 11No vote 14 of 45Majority line ForClear line Divided Cohesion 0.32
GreensFor 50Against 0Abst. 0No vote 3 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 119Against 3Abst. 6No vote 7 of 135Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.89
RenewFor 67Against 6Abst. 0No vote 5 of 78Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.88
EPPFor 169Against 0Abst. 1No vote 15 of 185Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
ECRFor 57Against 6Abst. 12No vote 7 of 82Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.64
PatriotsFor 7Against 47Abst. 21No vote 10 of 85Majority line AgainstClear line Divided Cohesion 0.44
ESNFor 0Against 25Abst. 0No vote 2 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 6Against 11Abst. 9No vote 3 of 29Majority line —Clear line No line Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS changed group, Elena YONCHEVA changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 34

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
Austria136010.53
Belgium143500.45
Bulgaria113030.68
Cyprus5010—
Czechia143130.67
Germany6722340.59
Denmark84300.30
Estonia5011—
Spain485250.81
Finland121110.79
France37281150.34
Greece132510.47
Croatia110011.00
Hungary211080.65
Ireland110120.88
Italy6060100.86
Lithuania101000.86
Luxembourg5100—
Latvia7110—
Malta5001—
Netherlands164920.33
Poland475010.86
Portugal151230.75
Romania300031.00
Sweden112800.29
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia62610.14

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

Members who spoke in the plenary debate on the dossier. Speeches: how many times they took the floor. Final vote: their recorded position on this decision's final roll call.
MemberGroupSpeechesSpokeFinal vote
Roberta METSOLA MaltaEPPSpeeches17 Jul 2026 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded

All votes on this decision, 12

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 3 Show of hands RejectedRequested bysplit: Patriots
2Separate vote on paragraph 3 Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: Patriots
3Separate vote on paragraph 3 Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: Patriots
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Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
2Separate vote on paragraph 3 Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: Patriots
3Separate vote on paragraph 3 Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: Patriots
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
4Separate vote on paragraph 4 Show of hands Rejected
5Separate vote on paragraph 7 Show of hands RejectedRequested byroll call: Patriots
6Separate vote on paragraph 7 A10-0180/2026 – Andrzej Halicki – § 7 Roll call379 for, 244 against, 27 abstained AdoptedRequested byroll call: Patriots
7Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 7 A10-0180/2026 – Andrzej Halicki – After § 7 – Am 4 Roll call196 for, 443 against, 8 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Patriots
8Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 7 A10-0180/2026 – Andrzej Halicki – After § 7 – Am 5 Roll call207 for, 442 against, 4 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Patriots
9Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 7 A10-0180/2026 – Andrzej Halicki – After § 7 – Am 6 Roll call194 for, 441 against, 11 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Patriots
10Separate vote on citation 7 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: Patriots
11Separate vote on citation 8 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: Patriots
12Final vote — text as a whole A10-0180/2026 – Andrzej Halicki – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call492 for, 101 against, 60 abstained Adopted

Roll call requested by Patriots · split votes by Patriots · separate votes by Patriots.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2026-0180

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The draft amending budget enters the 2025 surplus of EUR 2,095 million into the 2026 budget, reducing member states' GNI-based contributions by that amount.

Parliament approved the Council position, meaning the spending is approved and the amending budget is definitively adopted.

Parliament calls for new own resources of at least EUR 60 billion per year to finance the next multiannual financial framework.

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Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2026, which enters the 2025 surplus of EUR 2,095 million into the 2026 budget.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2026/0090(BUD) · Budgetary procedure

Draft amending budget no 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 3 September 2026 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 18 June 2026 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 23 June 2026 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 24 June 2026 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 7 July 2026 (done)
  5. Published as law · 3 September 2026 (done)

Lead committee: BUDG · Rapporteur: Andrzej HALICKI (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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Sources & citation

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

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-07-07/6
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Draft amending budget No 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025”. Decision, 7 July 2026. votingId 194890, document A-10-2026-0180, reference 2026/0090(BUD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-07-07/6 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 7 July 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-07-07-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 7 July 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-07-07-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-07-07, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-07-07/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2026-07-07-6,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Draft amending budget No 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-07-07},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-07-07/6}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-07-07/6},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 194890, document A-10-2026-0180, reference 2026/0090(BUD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-07-07-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-07-07-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-07-07 (CC BY 4.0)}
}