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Under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the EU response to the crisis triggered by the pandemic, Bulgaria was initially allocated €6 267.3 million in grants. In line with the RRF Regulation, on 30 June 2022, the European Commission recalculated the maximum grant amounts for all Member States; this resulted in a just over 9 % cut for Bulgaria, lowering the total to €5 688.8 million. To take this into account, as well as factor in the impact of inflation, Bulgaria submitted a modified national ...

On 11 July 2023, the Council approved Slovakia's amended national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP, Plán obnovy) and allocated €6 408.5 million in grants for its implementation (Slovakia did not request loans). The allocation is €79.4 million higher than that initially approved (6 July 2021). The difference results from a 2022 update of the maximum financial contribution from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which reflects changes in real gross domestic product (GDP) over time, and the ...

In 2020, the Commission launched a review of the Solvency II Directive, the EU's legal prudential regulatory framework for (re-)insurance companies, which entered into force in 2016. As one output of the review, the Commission made a proposal in September 2021 for a new directive establishing a framework for recovery and resolution of insurance companies – the 'IRRD proposal'. The IRRD proposal would establish harmonised recovery and resolution tools and procedures, with enhanced cross-border cooperation ...

Lors de la session de février II, le Parlement devrait voter sur l’approbation de la toute première révision du cadre financier pluriannuel (CFP) de l’Union. Cette révision apportera 21 milliards d’euros de fonds supplémentaires, dont 17 milliards d’euros pour l’Ukraine. Le Parlement a demandé à plusieurs reprises que le budget à long terme de l’Union soit révisé d’urgence afin de permettre à l’Union de relever efficacement les défis auxquels elle est confrontée. L’accord conclu entre le Parlement ...

En juin 2023, la Commission européenne a publié une proposition de règlement établissant une nouvelle plateforme pour les technologies stratégiques pour l’Europe (STEP). Après trois cycles de réunions de trilogue, le Parlement et le Conseil sont parvenus à un accord provisoire sur le texte le 7 février 2024 et ils doivent maintenant l’adopter formellement. Le Parlement devrait mettre le texte aux voix au cours de sa deuxième session plénière de février.

La politique étrangère et de sécurité commune (PESC) contribue aux objectifs de l’Union consistant à maintenir la paix, à renforcer la sécurité internationale, à promouvoir la coopération internationale et à développer et consolider la démocratie, l’état de droit et le respect des droits de l’homme et des libertés fondamentales. Le 28 novembre 2023, la commission des affaires étrangères (AFET) du Parlement européen a adopté son rapport annuel sur la mise en oeuvre de la PESC, dans lequel elle souligne ...

This At a glance note summaries the study focusing on regional connectivity through an adequate transport infrastructure. The study provides an overview of the aspects of regional connectivity through adequate cohesion policy investments in rail and road transport infrastructures, mostly in the programming period 2014-2020. In detail, this analysis covers all types of transport-related investments (for goods and people) financed from the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund. Moreover ...

For the first time ever, the European Parliament and the Council have agreed to revise the ceilings of the EU's multiannual financial framework. The agreement affects the remaining years of the current financial period: 2024 to 2027. The European Parliament had demanded a revision to enable the EU to rise to its challenges effectively. At the special European Council meeting on 1 February 2024, the EU Heads of State or Government reached a highly anticipated decision on the revision following the ...

A highlight of the February I 2024 plenary session was the debate on the conclusions of the special European Council meeting on 1 February, at which leaders reached agreement on EU funding, in particular for Ukraine. That was followed by a debate with the Council and Commission on the need for unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after two years of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. Members also debated empowering farmers and rural communities and ensuring sustainable and fairly rewarded EU ...

This publication seeks to assist the Members of the European Parliament Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) in their work relating to the 2022 discharge procedure, scrutinising how the general budget of the European Union is spent. It is based on a sample of 13 special reports by the European Court of Auditors (ECA), which were presented during CONT committee meetings in the 12 months from December 2022 to November 2023, and for which the committee secretariat prepared working documents. The analysis ...