MFF: Council urged not to underestimate challenge of securing Parliament majority

A parliamentary assistant to the lead MEP drafting the EP’s position on Horizon Europe has warned that the Council may be underestimating how narrow its margin is for securing a majority in Parliament to approve the next long-term EU budget.

“The Council might be underestimating how narrow the margin is. They have to keep a majority in Parliament,” Gosse Simon Vuijk, Parliamentary Assistant of Christian Ehler, rapporteur for Horizon Europe, said. He spoke on 03/10/2026 at the European Association of Innovation Consultants (EAIC) Summit.

He was referring to the fact that the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) requires the consent of an absolute majority in the EP to be adopted. However, he warned that securing such a majority would be challenging, with the margin amounting to only a…