SDGs: MEPs adopted their report forming the basis of the Parliament's position ahead of the UN Summit

The European Parliament adopted a report that will form the basis of its position for the UN High-Level Political Forum, by 374 votes in favour, 185 against, and 74 abstentions, during a plenary session on 07/07/2026, in Strasbourg.

This position will be defended by a joint delegation of MEPs that will be attending to the Summit held in New York from 07/07 to 15/07.

In the report, MEPs :
• "acknowledge that the global community is severely off track in its efforts to achieve the SDG targets by the 2030 deadline ;
• are alarmed by the annual investment gap of approximately $4 trillion in funding needed to achieve them, a gap exacerbated by declining official development assistance (ODA) levels across the world ;
• want the EU and its member states to honour their funding commitments and reinforce their leadership role to fill the huge financing gap, including that left by the suspension of most USAID funding under the current US administration".

To support the achievements of the SDGs, MEPs stressed out that "ambitious financial commitments in the EU’s next long-term budget, covering the…