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New economic governance rules

Briefing 07-02-2024

On 26 April 2023, the European Commission published a package of three proposals to revise the EU's economic governance framework: a regulation to replace the current preventive arm of the stability and growth pact (SGP), an amending Council regulation on the corrective arm of the SGP, and an amending Council directive to strengthen the role of independent fiscal institutions. The main proposal on the preventive arm is to be adopted through the ordinary legislative procedure with the European Parliament ...

Nadia Calvinho, First Vice President of the Government of Spain, Minister for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation is participating in the ECON Committee in her capacity of President of the ECOFIN Council during the Spanish Presidency (July - December 2023). In accordance with the Treaty of the Union, “Member States shall regard their economic policies as a matter of common concern and shall coordinate them within the Council”. This document provides an overview of the Spanish Presidency priorities ...

Plenary round-up – May I 2023

W skrócie 12-05-2023

Among the highlights of the May I plenary session were debates on the EU budget and own resources, as well as on 55 reports on the discharge for the 2021 budget. Members addressed a variety of issues, including the revision of the Stability and Growth Pact, and the role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector. Further debates concerned Ukrainian cereals on the European market, the act in support of ammunition production (on which Parliament voted to fast-track ...

The EU faces the challenge to combine large and sustained investments to promote the transition towards a green, digital, and competitive Europe while maintaining fiscal sustainability. Based on a comprehensive literature review on the effects of fiscal rules and investment clauses on public finances, this in-depth analysis provides some guidance how higher public investments can be achieved by a targeted golden rule without harming fiscal sustainability in the EU fiscal framework. The study also ...

The necessary green transition in the EU requires substantial additional green public investment (GPI) by Member States throughout this decade and beyond. This briefing paper discusses four approaches for a reform of EU fiscal rules to better accommodate higher (debt-financed) GPI: (1) an exemption clause for GPI; (2) the implementation of a green golden rule; (3) a country-specific benchmark share of government expenditures dedicated to GPI recommended by the European Commission; and (4) an EU Climate ...

The Communication by the European Commission to reform the Economic Governance Framework offers welcome headspace for public investment, while avoiding the de jure adoption of a ‘targeted Golden Rule’ as this could conflict with national accounting conventions. However, even with this reform, EU-strategic goals for public investment risk to be missed once the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) runs out. Making a RRF-like instrument a permanent feature of the EU’s fiscal landscape could be a way ...

In October 2021, the European Commission relaunched, following a pause in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the review of the EU's economic governance framework. In the context of heightened economic and geopolitical uncertainty, the review has put the spotlight back on the fiscal rules, its relevance and effectiveness. On 9 November 2022, the Commission published a communication on orientations for a reform of the EU economic governance framework, which outlines how key economic and policy ...

This table provides a regular update on Member States invited for an Economic Dialogue in the competent Committee of the European Parliament and an overview of the respective legal base.

This briefing follows up the commitments made by the commissioner since 2019.

The Covid-19 pandemic was a severe blow to EU Member States. Thanks to rapid and resolute responses at Member State and EU level, the economic impact of the pandemic was less severe than initially forecast and – at least until early 2022 – the economy seemed on the way to recovery. New challenges, both external (such as Russia’s war on Ukraine) and internal (such as inflation) could jeopardise this, however. In its Spring 2022 Economic Forecasts, the European Commission has revised the EU’s growth ...