Haushaltsausschuss

The objective of the joint public hearing is to provide the Members of the BUDG, CONT and LIBE Committees with input from academics and practitioners on how to ensure that final beneficiaries and recipients can continue to receive EU funding where the EU has suspended payments to a Member State due to rule of law breaches by the central government.

On 13 May 2025, the BUDG, CONT and ECON Committees have invited Mr Lefteris Christoforou, Member responsible at the European Court of Auditors (ECA), to present its Special report 07/2025 on “The European Fund for Strategic Investments – Contributed substantially to addressing the investment gap, but had not fully reached the €500 billion target in the real economy by the end of 2022”.

The AFET and BUDG Committees will hold a second Dialogue on the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans. The Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans is a new financial instrument aimed at supporting the socio-economic convergence between the six Western Balkan countries and the EU on their path to accession. It consists of €4 billion in highly preferential loans and budgetary guarantees, as well as €2 billion in grants.

On 23 April 2025, the BUDG and the ECON Committees hosted a public hearing on "InvestEU: lessons learned and future perspectives". The purpose of the hearing was to examine key issues around the implementation of the InvestEU programme and to reflect on the main lessons which could be taken into account for future EU programmes.

On 23 April, the Committee on Budgets adopted the own-initiative report prepared by co-rapporteurs Siegfried Mureşan and Carla Tavares on 'A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world'.

The Committee on Budgets traveled to Latvia from 14 to 16 April 2025. The main objective of this mission was to learn more about the budgetary implications of enhancing the EU preparedness, focusing in particular on defence spending, in relation to recent geopolitical shifts. As conflicts do not only materialise in conventional forms but also through hybrid threats, significant financial resources can be required not only as defence spending but also across various domains.

On 10 April 2025, the AFET and BUDG Committees held a second Ukraine Facility Dialogue in the framework of the Article 37 of the Ukraine Facility Regulation. The Ukraine Facility is a EUR 50 billion instrument, disbursed in stages, which represents one of the cornerstones of the EU's strategy for the recovery, reconstruction and modernisation of Ukraine in the wake of Russia's war of aggression.

On 7 April 2025, the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Budgetary Control held a joint public hearing on the "Lessons learnt from the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and ways to make it more effective for the future".