Controversy over the postponement of the publication of the Draghi report
24.4.2024
Priority question for written answer P-001251/2024
to the Commission
Rule 138
Jean-Paul Garraud (ID)
On 24 February, at a meeting with economics and finance ministers, former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi caused alarm by saying that the European Union urgently needed to find ‘an enormous amount of money’, more than EUR 500 billion.
This is a huge amount of money that cannot possibly be borne by European taxpayers.
The proposal is set to be reflected in the conclusions of a report on European competitiveness, which Commission President Ursula von der Leyen commissioned him to draw up. A report that has already been drafted but whose publication has been postponed... until after the European elections on 9 June.
It is particularly worrying that such an important public debate is not taking place before the elections. Citizens have the right to know what it contains in order to vote in full knowledge of the facts. Refusing its immediate publication is an attack on democracy and the rule of law.
- 1.Can the Commission explain why this already drafted report is not being made public before the European elections in June?
- 2.Is it trembling at the thought of revealing its monumental fiasco before voters have a say?
- 3.Why is so much money needed to improve European competitiveness, when the European Union is already supposed to have brought us prosperity?
Submitted:24.4.2024