Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - European External Action Service

1. ✓ Referred to committee (done) 9 September 2025
2. ✓ Committee work (done) Report adopted 2 March 2026
3. ✓ Tabled for plenary (done) 26 March 2026
4. ✓ Plenary vote (done) Adopted 29 April 2026
5. ✓ Parliament’s position (done) Final

Parliament checks how an EU institution or agency spent a past year’s budget and signs it off — or refuses to.

Lead committee

Budgetary Control CONT

Rapporteur

Pasquale TRIDICO (The Left)

Shadow rapporteurs

Andrey KOVATCHEV (EPP), José CEPEDA (S&D), Ondřej KNOTEK (Patriots), Şerban Dimitrie STURDZA (ECR), Vlad VASILE-VOICULESCU (Renew)

Opinion: AFET

Foreign Affairs · rapporteur Evin INCIR (S&D)

Opinion: DEVE

Development

Opinion: AFCO

Constitutional Affairs

Opinion: SEDE

Security and Defence

Each group's clear line at the date of the vote: a position with at least two thirds of the group's votes (at least 10 members voting), otherwise Divided; “< 10 voted” when fewer took part. Result: outcome, for–against–abstained (method).

Key: ✓ For ✗ Against ○ Abstained ÷ Divided (no clear line)

1. 29 Apr 2026 Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 26

   Rejected 164–389–94

   The Left

   Against ✗

   Greens

   Abst. ○

   S&D

   Against ✗

   Renew

   Against ✗

   EPP

   Against ✗

   ECR

   For ✓

   Patriots

   Divided ÷

   ESN

   For ✓

2. 29 Apr 2026 Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 27

   Rejected 228–264–151

   The Left

   Against ✗

   Greens

   Against ✗

   S&D

   Against ✗

   Renew

   Against ✗

   EPP

   Abst. ○

   ECR

   For ✓

   Patriots

   For ✓

   ESN

   For ✓

3. 29 Apr 2026 Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 27

   Rejected 211–431–6

   The Left

   Against ✗

   Greens

   Against ✗

   S&D

   Against ✗

   Renew

   Against ✗

   EPP

   Against ✗

   ECR

   For ✓

   Patriots

   For ✓

   ESN

   For ✓

4. 29 Apr 2026 Amendment 1 to paragraph 33

   Rejected 219–418–11

   The Left

   Against ✗

   Greens

   Against ✗

   S&D

   Against ✗

   Renew

   Against ✗

   EPP

   Against ✗

   ECR

   For ✓

   Patriots

   For ✓

   ESN

   For ✓

5. 29 Apr 2026 Separate vote on paragraph 71

   Adopted 458–178–15

   The Left

   Against ✗

   Greens

   For ✓

   S&D

   Against ✗

   Renew

   For ✓

   EPP

   For ✓

   ECR

   For ✓

   Patriots

   For ✓

   ESN

   For ✓

6. 29 Apr 2026 Final vote — text as a whole

   Adopted 429–145–76

   The Left

   For ✓

   Greens

   For ✓

   S&D

   For ✓

   Renew

   For ✓

   EPP

   For ✓

   ECR

   Abst. ○

   Patriots

   Against ✗

   ESN

   Against ✗

1. Adopted by Parliament29 Apr 2026

   Adopted text TA10-0130/2026 TA-10-2026-0130

   Compare with tabled for plenary

2. Tabled for plenary26 Mar 2026

   Report A10-0053/2026 A-10-2026-0053

   Compare with committee draft

3. Committee draft18 Dec 2025

   Draft report (CONT) CONT-PR-778061

Committee opinions: Opinion (AFET), Draft opinion (AFET)

1. Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament Report A10-0053/2026 → Adopted text TA10-0130/2026

   ▸ AIAI: What changed Written by AI from the official text — check the source

   Changes the approach to Georgia, limiting contacts with authorities and focusing on civil society. Adds a paragraph on Ukraine support with strict controls and anti-fraud measures. Adds a paragraph on religious hatred and intolerance, and updates the EPPO investigation details. Deletes a paragraph on the use of Signal chat by the Vice-President/High Representative. Other changes are formal: splitting paragraphs, updating titles, and correcting punctuation.

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   Compare the two versions

2. Committee draft → Tabled for plenary Draft report (CONT) → Report A10-0053/2026

   ▸ AIAI: What changed Written by AI from the official text — check the source

   The resolution now grants discharge for 2024 instead of postponing it, and adds numerous calls for audits, performance reviews, and transparency measures. It strengthens language on budgetary constraints, underfunding, and duty of care, and adds calls for better staff consultation and security. It expands sections on FIMI, disinformation, and the EU Diplomatic Academy, including new paragraphs on AI safeguards and cybersecurity training. It updates figures and adds new paragraphs on coordination with Member States and communication visibility. The other changes are formal or wording: updated terminology, corrected percentages, and rephrased sentences.

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Permalink

https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-2150

Official source

• Procedure file (Legislative Observatory, OEIL) ↗

Data source

• EP Open Data API: procedure record ↗

Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Retrieved

25 September 2026

European Parliament (2026). “Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - European External Action Service”. Dossier, 29 April 2026. procId 2025-2150, reference 2025/2150(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-2150 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Procedure file (Legislative Observatory, OEIL), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025%2F2150(DEC). Data: EP Open Data API: procedure record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/procedures/2025-2150 (CC BY 4.0).

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