Towards a just, green and accountable EU budget: Bankwatch’s recommendations for the Committee on Budgets interim report

Advocacy letter    |    14 April 2026

Ahead of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets vote on its draft interim report on the 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework, it is crucial for Members of the European Parliament to ensure the next long-term budget genuinely supports a fair green transition, territorial cohesion and democratic accountability.

While the European Commission’s budget proposal does increase investment in the clean transition, the heavy focus on programme consolidation, centralised national and regional partnership plans, and ‘flexibility’ risk undermining environmental and social objectives, transparency, and ongoing support for carbon-intensive mining regions.