EU Parliament, Strasbourg, P10 CRE-REV(2026)10-07(3-0018-0000).
So as to just say it at the beginning: We will put a stop to Germany's
paymastership because the EU is incapable of reform. The treaties
need be re-negotiated. The decisive question for us reads: Shall the
EU in the future have at its disposal an ever larger budget and new
sources of income? Our answer is clear: Europe needs the sovereign
nations before all in matters of budget policy.
The EU besides has no income but a spending problem. And who
wants to plug budget gaps with EU taxes, Eigenmitteln [capital
reserves], years-long common debts, draws the wrong conclusion
from the years-long failures of the Eurocrats. Instead of discovering
new charges, the expenditures need finally be on the test bench.
We therefore demand as a first step a distinct shrinkage of the
budget by at least 30 percent. The same goes for the administration:
A strict stop on positions, dissolution of superfluous authorities,
ideological promotion programs for NGOs, and debt-financed EU
funds. All of that must go. There needs be an end with the
Eigenmitteln. Who paves the way for an EU budget with
Eigenmitteln, he disempowers the member states. We will no longer
permit that. Budget supremacy [Budgethöheit] is national and
political sovereignty.
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