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Changes from plenary report to adopted text
A-10-2025-0257 → TA-10-2026-0005
- From
- A-10-2025-0257 Plenary report of 22 Dec 2025
- To
- TA-10-2026-0005 Adopted text of 20 Jan 2026
- Changes
- 6 changes to the text
- Paragraphs
- +4 added · −15 removed · 7 changed
More facts (3)
- Dossier
- 2025/2085(INI)
- Title (from)
- on humanitarian aid in a time of polycrisis – reaffirming our principles for a more effective and ambitious response to humanitarian crises
- Title (to)
- Humanitarian aid in a time of polycrisis – reaffirming our principles for a more effective and ambitious response to humanitarian crises
AI: What changed, in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source · deepseek-v4-flash · 4 Sept 2026
The only substantive change is in paragraph 28, which now calls for adopting the Commission's planned communication rather than presenting a new strategy.4 All other changes are formal: decimal commas are replaced with decimal points in five figures.1235
The notes class 1 change as substance, 5 as formal, 0 as wording only.
Changes that matter, 6
Changes to the text in document order — the ones the change notes describe. Cover page, renumbering and punctuation-only edits are left out (see “Every difference”); changes to citations and references stay in and are marked as formal in the notes.
Change 1
ChangedF. whereas the humanitarian system is facing a massive funding crisis; whereas in 2024 only 43 % of the USD 50 billion UN appeal for humanitarian aid was met; whereas the dismantling of US Agency for International Development (USAID) programmes and the reduction in foreign aid from other key donors, including several EU Member States, have further exacerbated the situation and led to a worrying decline in global funding for humanitarian, health, gender equality and climate initiatives; wheras only 13 %14 of the funding required for the 2025 UN appeal for humanitarian aid to assist 188 million people in 72 countries was reached by July 2025; whereas due to USAID cuts more than 14 million people face the risk of death by 2030; whereas this also affects more than 4.54,5 million children under the age of five15; whereas the funding cuts are deepening the hunger crisis when acute food insecurity is at an all-time high; whereas these cuts have a disproportionate impact on women, girls, persons with disabilities, and those living in rural and remote areas, exacerbating existing inequalities16; whereas local and national women-led and women’s rights organisations are among the most severely impacted; whereas these cuts further endanger the safety and well-being of internally displaced people, refugees and vulnerable groups; whereas these cuts are having a devastating impact on global health – further increasing overall mortality, morbidity and disability due to an unequal access to disease treatment and prevention, basic services and goods, and the risk of infectious disease outbreaks, and pandemics –, and food security;
AI: Note on change 1 · formal Written by AI from the official text — check the source · deepseek-v4-flash · 4 Sept 2026
Replaces decimal comma with decimal point in the figure 4.5 million.
Change 2
Changed12. Highlights, in particular, the situation in Afghanistan, which is facing a severe and complex humanitarian crisis, with over 23.723,7 million people in need of assistance; notes that the situation is likely to deteriorate further owing to the expulsion of refugees from Pakistan and Iran and ongoing regional instability; welcomes the EU’s pledge of EUR 266 million in support, and calls for targeted local actions to assist women and girls;
AI: Note on change 2 · formal Written by AI from the official text — check the source · deepseek-v4-flash · 4 Sept 2026
Replaces decimal comma with decimal point in the figure 23.7 million.
Change 3
Changed25. Calls on the Member States to deliver on their collective commitment to provide at least 0.70,7 % of gross national income (GNI) as ODA, to meet the ODA target of 0.20,2 % of GNI to Least Developed Countries by 2030, and to devote 10 % of their ODA to humanitarian action; calls on the Commission to ensure that humanitarian aid adequately addresses the needs of women and girls as a strategic investment with long-term positive impacts for all, while regretting that women’s rights organisations continue to be systematically underfunded, receiving less than 1 % of global ODA23;
AI: Note on change 3 · formal Written by AI from the official text — check the source · deepseek-v4-flash · 4 Sept 2026
Replaces decimal commas with decimal points in the figures 0.7% and 0.2%.
Change 4
Changed28. Calls on the Commission to urgentlyadopt presentthe communication on humanitarian aid as envisaged in its 2026 Commission Work Programme a humanitarian strategy with a focus on an ambitious, people-centred and integrated approach to fragility, and the mechanisms to implement it, and to consult Parliament on the preparation and implementation of this strategy; welcomes the Commission’s communicated intention to prepare an integrated strategy to address fragility and conflict; highlights the importance of developing such a strategy with appropriately adapted, context-specific funding that addresses the interconnected challenges of peace, development, climate action, and humanitarian needs, including by engaging more with the local private sector, with full respect for the humanitarian principles; in view of this strategy, calls on the Commission to take into account the gender dimension;
AI: Note on change 4 · substance Written by AI from the official text — check the source · deepseek-v4-flash · 4 Sept 2026
Changes the call for a humanitarian strategy to a call for the Commission to adopt the communication on humanitarian aid as envisaged in its 2026 Work Programme.
Change 5
Changed39. Underlines that women in humanitarian contexts should be recognised not merely as victims, but as agents of change who actively drive positive transformation and shape their own destinies; highlights the crucial role played by women as frontline responders and community leaders and by women-led organisations in humanitarian settings, in preparedness, response, and recovery efforts, providing life-saving services, such as shelter, sexual and reproductive health services, gender-based violence services, cash assistance, trusted community-based protection, and which undertake advocacy for the rights and needs of women, girls, and marginalised populations, as well as drive peacebuilding and development work in their communities, while only receiving 0.30,3 % of bilateral aid in fragile states;
AI: Note on change 5 · formal Written by AI from the official text — check the source · deepseek-v4-flash · 4 Sept 2026
Replaces decimal comma with decimal point in the figure 0.3%.
Change 6
Changed44. Reiterates its call for the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and its subsequent resolutions by the EU and its Member States; in this regard welcomes the progress made on the EU Action Plan on WPS and GAP III, and stresses the importance of the Commission’s presenting a GAP IV and the need for adequate resources for its implementation; regrets that since the launch of the GAP III only 3.83,8 % of all gender-responsive/targeted actions have gender equality as a principal objective; calls on the Commission to ensure that 85 % of all new external actions incorporate gender as a significant or principal objective and that 20 % of ODA in each country is allocated to programmes with gender equality as one of their principal objectives;
AI: Note on change 6 · formal Written by AI from the official text — check the source · deepseek-v4-flash · 4 Sept 2026
Replaces decimal comma with decimal point in the figure 3.8%.
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European Parliament (2026). “Changes between A-10-2025-0257 and TA-10-2026-0005”. Text, 20 January 2026. from A-10-2025-0257, to TA-10-2026-0005, reference 2025/2085(INI). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0257/compare/TA-10-2026-0005 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-text-2026-01-20,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Changes between A-10-2025-0257 and TA-10-2026-0005}},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-01-20},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0257/compare/TA-10-2026-0005}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-10-2025-0257/compare/TA-10-2026-0005},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. from A-10-2025-0257, to TA-10-2026-0005, reference 2025/2085(INI). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}