The gap between the Council's position and the European Parliament's position on the 2027 EU draft budget amounts to over EUR 2.17 billion in commitment appropriations and EUR 1.2 billion in payment appropriations.
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No source states the €2.17 billion commitment gap as a single published figure; it is derived arithmetically from the Council position (€191.88 billion) and Parliament's rounded position (about €194 billion), so the precise value depends on the unrounded Parliament figure.
The payment gap derived from official figures is €1.23 billion (€203.3 billion vs €202.07 billion), i.e. marginally above the €1.2 billion cited; this is normal rounding.
Both headline totals exclude amounts outside the main budget (special instruments / other headings), which the Council press release explicitly flags, so like-for-like comparison requires care.
Parliament's position is not only a reaction to the Council: it is €1.17 billion above the Commission's draft, while the Council cut roughly €1 billion from that draft — the speaker presents only the Parliament-vs-Council differential.
The sources describing Parliament's position (EP press release and press summaries) are published after or on the eve of the session and largely derive from the same plenary vote, so corroboration from genuinely independent data is limited.