The current Erasmus+ budget is €27 billion.

Omissions

• The official headline figure is €26.2 billion for 2021-2027, not €27 billion; the speaker rounds up by roughly €0.8 billion (about 3%).
• If the ~€2.2 billion top-up from NDICI-Global Europe is counted, the total envelope is closer to €28.4 billion, so the true magnitude lies on both sides of the claimed €27 billion depending on definition (headline envelope vs. total including complementary funding).
• The '€41 billion' proposal figure corresponds to €40.8 billion in current prices (€36.2 billion in 2025 prices); MEPs later pushed for €47.39 billion, which the speaker does not mention.
• EP legislative-train and DAAD pages describing the 2028-2034 proposal were published in 2025, before the session date, so the MEP could have known them.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Commission — Erasmus+ Programme Guide, Part A: BudgetThe Programme has an overall indicative financial envelope of more than 26 billion EUR of the EU Budget for the seven years (2021-2027).
• PrimaryEuropean Commission — Erasmus+ 2021-2027 programme brings over €26.2 billionThe programme's budget is €26.2 billion, compared with €14.7 billion for 2014-2020. This will be complemented by about €2.2 billion from the ...
• SecondaryEuropean Parliament — Legislative Train, Erasmus+ programme 2028-2034Under the proposed new MFF, Erasmus+ would be allocated €36.2 billion in 2025 prices (€40.8 billion in current prices).
• SecondaryDAAD Brussels — European Commission presents proposal for Erasmus+ 2028-2034For the period 2028–2034, the European Commission plans to increase the Erasmus+ budget by around 50% – from currently about €26 billion (2021-...