Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets have set out their priorities for the EU’s 2027 budget, calling for a final-year allocation that reinforces the bloc’s stated key policy areas.
What Parliament is doing
The Committee on Budgets has prepared proposals for the 2027 EU budget with an emphasis on transport, energy, research, climate and agriculture. The committee’s approach frames 2027 as the closing year of the current long‑term EU budget cycle and seeks to concentrate spending on those policy fields viewed as priorities for that final year.
Why it matters
Allocations for the last year of a multiannual financial framework can shape how priorities are implemented before a new cycle begins. By prioritising transport, energy, research, climate and agriculture, the committee signals where it believes EU funds should be concentrated to support ongoing programmes and policy objectives as the current budget cycle ends.
What happens next
The proposals from the Committee on Budgets represent the Parliament’s position ahead of negotiations on the 2027 budget. Further steps will depend on the ordinary budgetary procedures and agreement with other EU institutions involved in setting the annual budget for 2027.
Source: European Parliament press release
