2024 General budget of the EU - opinion - 26.6.23
On Monday, 26 June 2023, the FEMM Committee presented the draft resolution on “General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024”.
The draft opinion for the budgetary resolution notes that the Commission has borrowed billions of euros beyond what was forecast, and asks that money not be wasted on "unproductive ideological fantasies", such as "gender confusion". The opinion urges that the Commission not intrude on member state competence such as sexual education.
The opinion rapporteur identifies possible areas of savings such as SRHR, EIGE and gender mainstreaming.
The FEMM committee has previously voted to increase the budget devoted to topics within its remit, notably the ESF+, the Daphne programme, EIGE, and the fallout from the attack on Ukraine.