European Parliament
Mairead McGuinness  (PPE ),
in writing.
– Although I supported the overall text of this report, I abstained from voting on paragraph 1 which urges ‘a dedicated and ambitious budget for sports policy under the future multiannual financial framework (MFF)’. Many major EU policy areas are facing substantial reductions in their future budget and, unless Member States increase their GNI-based contributions to the next MFF, achieving this noble objective of supporting an EU dimension in sport will, sadly, be very difficult.

