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Below is our broad analysis of the amendments drafted to some of the recent EP committee reports. It shows the list of authors, how political groups created coalitions between them and the list of specific topics they addressed.

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Example of amendment from 2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Commission 2024/2019(DEC)

2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Agencies   2024/2030(DEC)

• Total amendments: 169
• Unique initiators: 11
• Unique co-signatories: 11
• Unique topics addressed: 51

How many amendments did each group sponsor:

• EPP: 48
• S&D: 25
• PFE: 39
• ECR: 13
• Renew: 15
• Greens/EFA: 12
• The Left: 17

Note: amendments sponsored by multiple groups have higher chances of approval

Occurrences of cooperation between groups: none (each amendment was submitted by MEPs of the same group only)

Which MEPs initiated the amendments:

• EPP: Dirk GOTINK, Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ
• S&D: Claudiu MANDA, Csaba MOLNÁR, Marit MAIJ
• PFE: Tamás DEUTSCH
• ECR: Charlie WEIMERS, Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI
• Renew: Gilles BOYER
• Greens/EFA: Erik MARQUARDT
• The Left: Jonas SJÖSTEDT

Which MEPs co-signed the amendments:

• S&D: Csaba MOLNÁR, José CEPEDA, Marit MAIJ
• PFE: Julien SANCHEZ, Ondřej KNOTEK, Virginie JORON
• ECR: Beatrice TIMGREN, Dick ERIXON
• Renew: Michal WIEZIK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad VASILE-VOICULESCU

Topics most frequently targeted by amendments

• Asylum & border control
• EU Supervision of the Rule of Law
• Discharge of EU institutions and agencies
• Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• EU expenditure on social policy
• Conditions to access EU budget
• Accounting and auditing of EU budget

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2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Commission   2024/2019(DEC)

• Total amendments: 603
• Unique initiators: 18
• Unique co-signatories: 16
• Unique topics addressed: 79

How many amendments did each group sponsor:

• EPP: 111
• S&D: 63
• PFE: 153
• ECR: 58
• Renew: 57
• Greens/EFA: 80
• The Left: 81

Note: amendments sponsored by multiple groups have higher chances of approval

Occurrences of cooperation between groups: none (each amendment was submitted by MEPs of the same group only)

Which MEPs initiated the amendments:

• EPP: Dirk GOTINK, Monika HOHLMEIER, Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ
• S&D: Csaba MOLNÁR, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, José CEPEDA
• PFE: Tamás DEUTSCH, Virginie JORON
• ECR: Bert-Jan RUISSEN, Charlie WEIMERS, Cristian TERHEȘ, Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI
• Renew: Gilles BOYER, Michal WIEZIK, Olivier CHASTEL
• Greens/EFA: Daniel FREUND
• The Left: Jonas SJÖSTEDT, Pasquale TRIDICO

Which MEPs co-signed the amendments:

• S&D: Carla TAVARES, Csaba MOLNÁR, José CEPEDA, Marit MAIJ
• PFE: Filip TUREK, Julien SANCHEZ, Ondřej KNOTEK, Virginie JORON
• ECR: Beatrice TIMGREN, Dick ERIXON
• Renew: Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY, Michal WIEZIK, Olivier CHASTEL, Sophie WILMÈS, Vlad VASILE-VOICULESCU
• The Left: Pasquale TRIDICO

Topics most frequently targeted by amendments

• EU Supervision of the Rule of Law
• Asylum & border control
• Cohesion and rural funding
• Conditions to access EU budget
• EU Humanitarian Aid
• Relations with Israel - Palestine
• EU industrial funding
• Accounting and auditing of EU budget
• EU development aid (migration conditionality)
• Discharge of EU institutions and agencies
• Rule of law in Hungary
• EU policy on Islam
• Agriculture (green)
• EU policy on sustainability criteria in public funding
• Own EU resources
• Russia-Ukraine conflict 
• Defence spending
• EU expenditure on social policy
• EU research funding
• Size of EU budget
• Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• Covid-19 vaccines procurement

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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world 2024/2051(INI)

• Total amendments: 2514
• Unique initiators: 154
• Unique co-signatories: 175
• Unique topics addressed: 169

How many amendments did each group sponsor:

• EPP: 721
• S&D: 381
• PFE: 225
• ECR: 331
• Renew: 333
• Greens/EFA: 333
• The Left: 173
• ESN: 57
• NI: 13

Note: amendments sponsored by multiple groups have higher chances of approval

Occurrences of cooperation between groups: 

• EPP & S&D: 22
• EPP & Renew: 6
• EPP & Greens/EFA: 13
• EPP & The Left: 6
• S&D & Renew: 10
• S&D & Greens/EFA: 14
• S&D & The Left: 5
• Renew & Greens/EFA: 6
• Renew & The Left: 5
• Greens/EFA & The Left: 5

Which MEPs initiated the amendments:

• EPP: Łukasz KOHUT, Alice TEODORESCU MÅWE, Andrzej HALICKI, Aura SALLA, Borja GIMÉNEZ LARRAZ, Carmen CRESPO DÍAZ, Christian EHLER, Christophe GOMART, Daniel BUDA, Danuše NERUDOVÁ, David MCALLISTER, Dimitris TSIODRAS, Dirk GOTINK, Dóra DÁVID, Eszter LAKOS, Fernando NAVARRETE ROJAS, Georgios AFTIAS, Gheorghe FALCĂ, Hélder SOUSA SILVA, Inese VAIDERE, Ioan-Rareș BOGDAN, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Jan FARSKÝ, Janusz LEWANDOWSKI, Jüri RATAS, Karlo RESSLER, Kinga KOLLÁR, Loucas FOURLAS, Markus FERBER, Michael GAHLER, Michalis HADJIPANTELA, Mika AALTOLA, Monika HOHLMEIER, Nadine MORANO, Niels GEUKING, Radan KANEV, Sabine VERHEYEN, Seán KELLY, Siegfried MUREȘAN, Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN, Sunčana GLAVAK, Željana ZOVKO
• S&D: Alex AGIUS SALIBA, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Andreas SCHIEDER, Annalisa CORRADO, Aurore LALUCQ, Brando BENIFEI, Christel SCHALDEMOSE, Christophe CLERGEAU, César LUENA, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Emma RAFOWICZ, Estelle CEULEMANS, Giuseppe LUPO, Hana JALLOUL MURO, Hannes HEIDE, Jean-Marc GERMAIN, Jens GEIER, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Laura BALLARÍN CEREZA, Marc ANGEL, Matjaž NEMEC, Mohammed CHAHIM, Murielle LAURENT, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Nils UŠAKOVS, Nora MEBAREK, Raffaele TOPO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Robert BIEDROŃ, Romana JERKOVIĆ, Sabrina REPP, Sandra GÓMEZ LÓPEZ, Thomas BAJADA, Udo BULLMANN, Victor NEGRESCU
• PFE: Angéline FURET, Annamária VICSEK, Auke ZIJLSTRA, Catherine GRISET, Enikő GYŐRI, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, György HÖLVÉNYI, Julien SANCHEZ, Kinga GÁL, Mathilde ANDROUËT, Tamás DEUTSCH, Virginie JORON
• ECR: Alexandr VONDRA, Antonella SBERNA, Aurelijus VERYGA, Bogdan RZOŃCA, Charlie WEIMERS, Cristian TERHEȘ, Emmanouil FRAGKOS, Fernand KARTHEISER, Kris VAN DIJCK, Kristoffer STORM, Lara MAGONI, Laurence TROCHU, Marion MARÉCHAL, Paolo INSELVINI, Piotr MÜLLER, Rihards KOLS, Roberts ZĪLE, Ruggero RAZZA, Sebastian TYNKKYNEN
• Renew: Abir AL-SAHLANI, Benoit CASSART, Christine SINGER, Engin EROGLU, Fabienne KELLER, Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY, Hristo PETROV, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Joachim STREIT, Katri KULMUNI, Laurence FARRENG, Malik AZMANI, Martin HOJSÍK, Michal WIEZIK, Moritz KÖRNER, Nathalie LOISEAU, Olivier CHASTEL, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Stine BOSSE, Stéphanie YON-COURTIN, Svenja HAHN, Urmas PAET
• Greens/EFA: Damian BOESELAGER, Daniel FREUND, Diana RIBA I GINER, Erik MARQUARDT, Lena SCHILLING, Maria OHISALO, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ, Rasmus ANDRESEN, Rasmus NORDQVIST, Tineke STRIK
• The Left: Damien CARÊME, Emma FOURREAU, Giorgos GEORGIOU, João OLIVEIRA, Nikos PAPPAS, Pasquale TRIDICO, Younous OMARJEE, Özlem DEMIREL
• ESN: Alexander SELL, Anja ARNDT, Marc JONGEN, Tomasz FROELICH, Zsuzsanna BORVENDÉG
• NI: Kateřina KONEČNÁ

Which MEPs co-signed the amendments:

• EPP: András Tivadar KULJA, Aura SALLA, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Dan-Ștefan MOTREANU, Danuše NERUDOVÁ, Davor Ivo STIER, Elena NEVADO DEL CAMPO, Eleonora MELETI, Eszter LAKOS, Fernando NAVARRETE ROJAS, Hélder SOUSA SILVA, Karlo RESSLER, Liudas MAŽYLIS, Loucas FOURLAS, Manuela RIPA, Maria WALSH, Matej TONIN, Michalis HADJIPANTELA, Mika AALTOLA, Milan ZVER, Miriam LEXMANN, Niclas HERBST, Niels Flemming HANSEN, Nina CARBERRY, Ondřej KOLÁŘ, Paulius SAUDARGAS, Pekka TOVERI, Rasa JUKNEVIČIENĖ, Regina DOHERTY, Reinhold LOPATKA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN, Sunčana GLAVAK, Zoltán TARR, Željana ZOVKO
• S&D: Adnan DIBRANI, Alessandra MORETTI, Alessandro ZAN, Andreas SCHIEDER, Annalisa CORRADO, Bruno TOBBACK, Camilla LAURETI, Carla TAVARES, Cecilia STRADA, Chloé RIDEL, Christophe CLERGEAU, Claire FITA, Costas MAVRIDES, César LUENA, Daniel ATTARD, Dario NARDELLA, Elena SANCHO MURILLO, Elisabeth GROSSMANN, Elisabetta GUALMINI, Emma RAFOWICZ, Eric SARGIACOMO, Estelle CEULEMANS, Evin INCIR, Francisco ASSIS, Giorgio GORI, Giuseppe LUPO, Hana JALLOUL MURO, Hannes HEIDE, Idoia MENDIA, Javi LÓPEZ, Jean-Marc GERMAIN, Jens GEIER, Joanna SCHEURING-WIELGUS, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, José CEPEDA, Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR, Laura BALLARÍN CEREZA, Leire PAJÍN, Marc ANGEL, Marco TARQUINIO, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Marit MAIJ, Marko VEŠLIGAJ, Marta TEMIDO, Matjaž NEMEC, Matteo RICCI, Murielle LAURENT, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Nicola ZINGARETTI, Nicolás GONZÁLEZ CASARES, Nikos PAPANDREOU, Nils UŠAKOVS, Nora MEBAREK, Pierfrancesco MARAN, Pina PICIERNO, Raffaele TOPO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Rosa SERRANO SIERRA, Sabrina REPP, Sakis ARNAOUTOGLOU, Sandra GÓMEZ LÓPEZ, Sandro RUOTOLO, Thijs REUTEN, Thomas BAJADA, Tiemo WÖLKEN, Tobias CREMER, Victor NEGRESCU, Vivien COSTANZO
• PFE: András LÁSZLÓ, Annamária VICSEK, Catherine GRISET, Elisabeth DIERINGER, Enikő GYŐRI, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Filip TUREK, György HÖLVÉNYI, Jorge MARTÍN FRÍAS, Julien SANCHEZ, Kinga GÁL, Pierre PIMPIE, Tomáš KUBÍN, Viktória FERENC
• ECR: Beatrice TIMGREN, Dick ERIXON, Fernand KARTHEISER, Galato ALEXANDRAKI, Georgiana TEODORESCU, Kris VAN DIJCK, Laurence TROCHU, Roberts ZĪLE
• Renew: Anna STÜRGKH, Anna-Maja HENRIKSSON, Anouk VAN BRUG, Barry ANDREWS, Benoit CASSART, Brigitte VAN DEN BERG, Charles GOERENS, Christine SINGER, Dan BARNA, Engin EROGLU, Fabienne KELLER, Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY, Grégory ALLIONE, Hilde VAUTMANS, Hristo PETROV, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Jeannette BALJEU, Joachim STREIT, Katri KULMUNI, Lucia YAR, Marie-Agnes STRACK-ZIMMERMANN, Michał KOBOSKO, Michal WIEZIK, Moritz KÖRNER, Oihane AGIRREGOITIA MARTÍNEZ, Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE, Sandro GOZI, Sigrid FRIIS, Sophie WILMÈS, Stine BOSSE, Stéphanie YON-COURTIN, Urmas PAET, Valérie DEVAUX, Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ, Vlad VASILE-VOICULESCU, Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE
• Greens/EFA: Diana RIBA I GINER, Jutta PAULUS, Kai TEGETHOFF, Marie TOUSSAINT, Rasmus NORDQVIST, Tilly METZ
• The Left: Carolina MORACE, Catarina MARTINS, Emma FOURREAU, Lynn BOYLAN, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Mimmo LUCANO, Nikos PAPPAS, Valentina PALMISANO

Topics most frequently targeted by amendments

• EU industrial funding
• Defence spending
• Climate efforts
• EU Supervision of the Rule of Law
• Cohesion and rural funding
• EU expenditure on social policy
• Size of EU budget
• EU Humanitarian Aid
• Own EU resources
• Asylum & border control
• Agriculture (green)
• Energy (green transition)
• EU policy on cultural and creative sector workers
• EU policy on sustainability criteria in public funding
• EU funding for transportation
• EU development aid (migration conditionality)
• EU research funding
• Energy transition (state support)
• EU enlargement
• Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• EU housing policy
• EU policy on social criteria in public funding
• Agricultural funding
• Russia-Ukraine conflict 
• Artificial Intelligence
• EU climate aid for global South
• Conditions to access EU budget
• Accounting and auditing of EU budget
• Funding for OCTs and outermost regions
• Funding for EU Neighbourhood
• Funding for vocational training

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Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European Parliament 2024/2111(BUI)

• Total amendments: 103
• Unique initiators: 16
• Unique co-signatories: 14
• Unique topics addressed: 46

How many amendments did each group sponsor:

• EPP: 26
• S&D: 13
• PFE: 37
• ECR: 4
• Renew: 6
• Greens/EFA: 18

Note: amendments sponsored by multiple groups have higher chances of approval

Occurrences of cooperation between groups: 

• S&D & Greens/EFA: 1

Which MEPs initiated the amendments:

• EPP: Karlo RESSLER, Michalis HADJIPANTELA, Monika HOHLMEIER
• S&D: Giuseppe LUPO, Jens GEIER, Nils UŠAKOVS, Victor NEGRESCU
• PFE: Angéline FURET, Auke ZIJLSTRA, Tamás DEUTSCH
• ECR: Ruggero RAZZA
• Renew: Fabienne KELLER, Joachim STREIT, Moritz KÖRNER
• Greens/EFA: Ignazio Roberto MARINO, Rasmus ANDRESEN

Which MEPs co-signed the amendments:

• S&D: Carla TAVARES, Giuseppe LUPO, Jean-Marc GERMAIN, Jens GEIER, Matjaž NEMEC, Matthias ECKE, Nils UŠAKOVS, René REPASI, Sandra GÓMEZ LÓPEZ, Victor NEGRESCU
• PFE: Julien SANCHEZ
• Renew: Anouk VAN BRUG, Lucia YAR
• Greens/EFA: Ignazio Roberto MARINO

Topics most frequently targeted by amendments

• Budget for EU politicians
• EU Supervision of the Rule of Law
• EU engagement with citizens
• EP seat in Strasbourg
• Gender roles, equality and inclusion
• EU political integration 
• Size of EU budget
• EU engagement with civil society

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility 2024/2085(INI)

• Total amendments: 652
• Unique initiators: 47
• Unique co-signatories: 33
• Unique topics addressed: 62

How many amendments did each group sponsor:

• EPP: 234
• S&D: 59
• PFE: 126
• ECR: 47
• Renew: 84
• Greens/EFA: 58
• The Left: 53

Note: amendments sponsored by multiple groups have higher chances of approval

Occurrences of cooperation between groups: 

• EPP & S&D: 9

Which MEPs initiated the amendments:

• EPP: Borja GIMÉNEZ LARRAZ, Danuše NERUDOVÁ, Dirk GOTINK, Fernando NAVARRETE ROJAS, Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Karlo RESSLER, Markus FERBER, Monika HOHLMEIER, Radan KANEV, Siegfried MURE?AN, Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN, Sunčana GLAVAK, Virgil-Daniel POPESCU
• S&D: Costas MAVRIDES, Irene TINAGLI, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Maria GRAPINI, Tiemo WÖLKEN, Victor NEGRESCU
• PFE: Angéline FURET, Auke ZIJLSTRA, Enikő GYŐRI, Mathilde ANDROUËT, Tamás DEUTSCH, Virginie JORON
• ECR: Șerban Dimitrie STURDZA, Alexandr VONDRA, Beatrice TIMGREN, Denis NESCI, Fernand KARTHEISER, Paolo INSELVINI, Roberts ZĪLE
• Renew: Ľudovít ÓDOR, Ana VASCONCELOS, Benoit CASSART, Engin EROGLU, Gilles BOYER, Pascal CANFIN
• Greens/EFA: Daniel FREUND, Kai TEGETHOFF, Lena SCHILLING, Rasmus ANDRESEN
• The Left: João OLIVEIRA, Jussi SARAMO, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Nikolas FARANTOURIS

Which MEPs co-signed the amendments:

• EPP: Dan-Ștefan MOTREANU, Elena NEVADO DEL CAMPO, Fernando NAVARRETE ROJAS, Marco FALCONE, Sunčana GLAVAK
• S&D: Carla TAVARES, Claire FITA, Costas MAVRIDES, Francisco ASSIS, Jean-Marc GERMAIN, Sandra GÓMEZ LÓPEZ, Thomas BAJADA, Victor NEGRESCU
• PFE: Angéline FURET, Anne-Sophie FRIGOUT, Auke ZIJLSTRA, Jaroslava POKORNÁ JERMANOVÁ, Jorge MARTÍN FRÍAS, Julien SANCHEZ, Marie-Luce BRASIER-CLAIN, Pierre PIMPIE, Valérie DELOGE, Virginie JORON
• ECR: Ruggero RAZZA
• Renew: Ľudovít ÓDOR, Ana VASCONCELOS, Anouk VAN BRUG, Joachim STREIT, Olivier CHASTEL, Stéphanie YON-COURTIN, Vlad VASILE-VOICULESCU
• Greens/EFA: Damian BOESELAGER
• The Left: Pasquale TRIDICO

Topics most frequently targeted by amendments

• EU fiscal rules and oversight of national budgets
• EU Supervision of the Rule of Law
• EU industrial funding
• Cohesion and rural funding
• EU policy on sustainability criteria in public funding
• Energy (green transition)
• Energy transition (state support)
• Green Taxonomy
• EU expenditure on social policy
• Climate efforts
• Own EU resources
• EU funding for transportation
• Conditions to access EU budget
• EU support of rail transport
• EU transport infrastructure integration
• EU engagement with civil society
• EU policy on social criteria in public funding
• Digitalization of public governance & administration