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I voted against this report.
While it offers some benefits for our regions, it opens the door to the militarisation of the EU’s Cohesion Policy.
This decision means that funding from the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund, both cornerstones of the EU’s Cohesion Policy, can now be redirected to finance military infrastructure.
Cohesion Policy has always been the EU’s flagship policy of solidarity. Turning it into a tool for military spending, with the Parliament’s blessing, is shameful.

I voted against this because the weakening of the CO2 target will hamper the transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles. It would delay the scale-up of EV production in Europe. This slows down progress towards reducing emissions in the transport sector.