European Parliament President Roberta Metsola urged EU leaders at the European Council to match the bloc’s ambitions with adequate funding, speed up competitiveness reforms and keep pushing enlargement forward, the Parliament said in a brief statement on Thursday.
What Parliament is doing
The statement, issued by the European Parliament, summarised President Metsola’s interventions during this week’s European Council meetings. Metsola stressed the need for a long-term EU budget that corresponds to the Union’s stated ambitions. She also called for faster progress on measures to boost the EU’s competitiveness and for sustained momentum on enlargement.
Why it matters
Metsola framed the budget, competitiveness and enlargement as interconnected priorities requiring timely decisions from EU leaders. The message points to Parliament’s broader concern that ambitions agreed at political level must be backed by sufficient financial and policy means, and that delays could affect the EU’s capacity to act on those priorities.
What happens next
The press release does not set out concrete procedural steps or deadlines. It records the Parliament president’s appeal to heads of state and government during the European Council discussions and underscores the Parliament’s position ahead of future inter-institutional budget and policy negotiations.
Source: European Parliament press release
