This info clip is a part of the series of videos "How does the European Parliament work? (2019-2024)", illustrating the powers of the European Parliament by focusing on budgetary and co-decision procedures. The Parliament acts as a co-legislator, sharing with the Council, the power to adopt and amend legislative proposals and to decide on the EU budget. During the 2019 - 2024 parliamentary term, unexpected crises influenced the Union. In 2021, Parliament approved the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the biggest building block of the Next Generation EU recovery package designed to help EU countries tackle the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2024, the Parliament approved the first-ever revision of the EU's long-term budget, establishing predictable and stable financial support for Ukraine. This info clip illustrates how the EU budget is used and how the Parliament engages with other EU institutions.

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MACRON, Emmanuel (FR)

MERKEL, Angela (DE)

MICHEL, Charles (BE)

SASSOLI, David Maria (S&D, IT, S&D, IT)

BUDGET (T1)

OLBRYCHT, Jan (EPP, PL)

co-decision procedure (T)

PÎSLARU, Dragoş (Renew, RO)

MARQUES, Margarida (S&D, PT)

VON DER LEYEN, Ursula (DE, EC)

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2024 European elections (T)

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How does the European Parliament work? (2019-2024) - Powers of the European Parliament: budget and co-decision procedures

EP President David Sassoli arrives to the European Council meeting focusing on the EU's recovery plan and the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-202, Brussels region, Belgium, 17/07/2020, (1 shot)

EP President David Sassoli greets President of the European Council Charles Michel at the European Council meeting focusing on the EU's recovery plan and the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-202, Brussels region, Belgium, 17/07/2020, (1 shot)

Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and President of France Emmanuel Macron greet President of the European Council Charles Michel at the European Council meeting focusing on the EU's recovery plan and the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-202, Brussels region, Belgium, 17/07/2020, (1 shot)

EP President David Sassoli discusses with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the European Council meeting focusing on the EU's recovery plan and the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-202, Brussels region, Belgium, 17/07/2020, (1 shot)

President of the European Council Charles Michel chairs the European Council meeting focusing on the EU's recovery plan and the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-202, Brussels region, Belgium, 17/07/2020, (1 shot)

Wide shot of the European Council meeting focusing on the EU's recovery plan and the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-202, Brussels region, Belgium, 17/07/2020, (1 shot)

Vice-President Nicola Beer (DE, Renew) chairs a plenary meeting where MEPs vote remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Brussels region, Belgium, 16/12/2020, (1 shot)

Vice-President Nicola Beer (DE, Renew), announces the result of the single vote on MFF, Rule of Law Conditionality and Own Resources (report by Jan OLBRYCHT (EPP, PL) and Margarida MARQUES (S&amp;D, PT) with 548 votes in favour, 81 against and 66 abstentions, Brussels region, Belgium, 16/12/2020, (1 shot)

SOUNDBITE (Italian), David SASSOLI, EP President, With today's vote, the European Parliament has adopted the European budget for the next seven years. We have a historic balance sheet for a historic moment: we ensured 15 billion more to support public health, research, the cultural sector and a common migration and asylum policy.

Wind turbins, France, 20/09/2022, (2 shots)

Farmer walking and checking the fields, Villers-le-Bouillet, Belgium, 02/06/2022, (3 shots)

Farmer with the cattle, Villers-le-Bouillet, Belgium, 02/06/2022, (3 shots)

People charging electric cars, 04/10/2022, (3 shots)

Young people in a climate demonstration, 12/09/2020, (3 shots)

Erasmus students in an university library, London, United Kingdom, 01/04/2019, (4 shots)

Scientist working in a research institute (ICANS Institute of Cancerology Strasbourg), Strasbourg, France, 07/01/2021, (3 shots)

Exterior shot of Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, 14/05/2023, (1 shot)

Nurses working at the new intensive care unit in the hospital financed by the European Social Fund, Santander, Spain, 14/05/2023, (3 shots)

Exterior shot of the European Parliament, Brussels region, Belgium, (1 shot)

EP President David Sassoli announces the result of the vote on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) - adopted with 582 votes in favour, 40 against and 69 abstentions, Brussels region, Belgium, 05/02/2021, (1 shot)

Lex Signing ceremony on the Recovery and Resilience Facility with David SASSOLI, EP President, Antonio COSTA, Portuguese Prime Minister on behalf of the Council, and in presence of Ursula von der LEYEN, President of the European Commission, Brussels region, Belgium, 12/02/2021, (5 shots)

SOUNDBITE (English), Dragoș P&Icirc;SLARU (Renew, RO), Co-rapporteur, It is a lot of money that we are talking about. It is the largest ever program of the Union, a moment of deep solidarity, historical moment where Europe is actually putting the resources together to come out of the crisis, but not only just recovered from the crisis, but basically raising the ambition for a stronger Europe, a Europe that would be more resilient in facing the shocks.

Trilogue on EU Emissions Trading System, Brussels region, Belgium, 16/12/2022, (8 shots)

Signature and family photo with EP President Roberta Metsola, Rapporteur Siegfried Mureșan (EPP, RO), Rapporteur Nils Usakovs (S&amp;D, LT), and Rapporteur Johan Van Overtveldt (ECR, BE), Strasbourg, France, 22/11/2023, (5 shots)

Illustrative footage of Ukrainian people and buildings destroyed by Russian shelling, various locations, Ukraine, (5 shots)

Press conference on the Reform of the EU's long-term budget MFF held by EP President Roberta Metsola, Rapporteur Jan Olbrycht (EPP, PL) and Rapporteur Margarida Marques (S&amp;D, PT), 03/10/2023, Strasbourg, France, (1 shot)

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, I want to be clear and unambiguous, there is an urgent need to revise our long-term budget because funds are finite, the pandemic, Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, natural disasters, rising inflation and a cost of living crisis has taken its very concrete toll.

SOUNDBITE (English), Jan OLBRYCHT (EPP, PL), Rapporteur, There is no money. From the 1st of January, there is no money in MFF. The question is what we will do to to help Ukraine from the 1st of January.

SOUNDBITE (Portuguese), Margarida MARQUES (S&amp;D, PT), Rapporteur, I'd like to say first how pleased I am that this revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework has been carried out. 

SOUNDBITE (Portuguese), Margarida MARQUES (S&amp;D, PT), Rapporteur, One of the positive aspects of this agreement: the creation of the Ukraine mechanism and the creation of the Ukraine facility as a stable and predictable form of support within the EU budget. This is the only way in which the EU will be able to support Ukraine, and at the same time, for us to respect the competences of the European Parliament as a budgetary authority.

Vice President Jan-Christoph Oetjen chairs the voting session, including the vote on the report by Olbrycht, Marques (A9-0051/2024), which is adopted with 499 votes in favour, 67 against and 67 abstentions, Strasbourg, France, 27/02/2024, (9 shots)