Eelarvekomisjon

On 23 April 2025, from 14:30 to 16:30, 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.

Members adopted the budgetary assessment of the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP). The rapporteur, Jean-Marc Germain, presented his draft budgetary assessment on 31 March.

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".

The Commission proposed to adopt a decision to mobilize the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) in favour of Belgium to support the reintegration in the labour market of 2 397 workers no longer active at Van Hool, due to the company's bankruptcy. The Commission proposed to mobilise EUR 7 999 015 for Belgium, representing 85 % of the total costs of the proposed actions for reintegration.

On Monday, 31 March 2025, from 20:15 to 22:15, Members from the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs held the 18th Recovery and Resilience Dialogue (RRD) with Raffaele Fitto, Executive Vice-President responsible for Cohesion and Reforms and Valdis Dombrovskis, Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification.