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Latvia's National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
Latvia is set to receive non-repayable financial support (grants) worth €1 969 million to implement its national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP), including for the REPowerEU chapter. These resources represent 0.3 % of the RRF, equal to 6.4 % of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019. Under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the original plan had an initial value of €1 826 million. In June 2022, Latvia's grant allocation was increased by €9 million. In September 2023, Latvia ...
Poland's National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
The Polish national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) – Krajowy Plan Odbudowy – is the third biggest plan under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It totals €54.7 billion, including €25.3 billion in grants and €29.4 billion in loans. The loan component has been reduced from €34.5 billion following the decrease in the level of implementation of several measures. Poland's NRRP has been revised four times, first on 8 December 2023 to add the REPowerEU chapter. The latest amendment was approved ...
The EU's new bilateral security and defence partnerships
The Strategic Compass, adopted by the 27 EU Member States in March 2022 – only weeks after the onset of Russia's unjustified and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine – emphasised the need for robust partnerships in order for the EU to be able to achieve its objectives in the area of security and defence. Alongside 'acting' (operations), 'securing' (resilience) and 'investing', 'partnering' is one of the four main pillars of the Compass. The document itself outlines specific targets and deadlines ...
Denmark's National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
Denmark's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) corresponds to 0.2 % of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), or 0.5 % of Denmark's 2019 gross domestic product (GDP). Spillover gains from other Member States′ plans are expected to more than double the direct impact of the Danish plan. The third and latest revision of the Danish NRRP was approved by the Council on 8 July 2025. The EU financial contribution totals €1 625.9 million, including RRF grants (€1 429 million), a REPowerEU grant ...
Plano nacional de recuperação e resiliência de Portugal: Ponto da situação
Portugal deverá receber 21,9 mil milhões de EUR em subvenções e empréstimos do Mecanismo de Recuperação e Resiliência (MRR), a resposta da UE à crise desencadeada pela pandemia de COVID 19. Este montante corresponde a 2,9 % da totalidade do MRR, ou seja, 10,2 % do produto interno bruto (PIB) de Portugal em 2019, e inclui subvenções do MRR (15,5 mil milhões de EUR), empréstimos do MRR (5,6 mil milhões de EUR), subvenções REPowerEU (0,7 mil milhões de EUR) e a quota parte de Portugal (0,1 mil milhões ...
Reinforcing the EU's defence industry
Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has laid bare the challenges facing the EU's defence industry as it tries to meet increased demand and ramp up production in the wake of a fundamentally changed security environment in Europe. The EU's defence industry comprises a number of large multinational companies, mid-caps and a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises. It faces a multitude of challenges, such as decades of under-investment, fragmentation, insufficient critical raw material ...
Malta's National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
Under the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the core of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) instrument, Malta is set to receive a total contribution of €328.2 million, corresponding to 2.3 % of its 2019 gross domestic product (GDP) – less than the average for the EU overall (the RRF equals 5.2 % of EU-27 GDP in 2019). However, while in nominal terms Malta has the second smallest allocation, it ranks higher in terms of RRF grants per capita. The total financial contribution reflects several revisions ...
PETI Fact-finding visit to Almaraz and Cabañeros, Spain 16-18 February 2026 On the closure of a nuclear power plant in Almaraz and to the Cabañeros National Park
Petition 0445/2025 on the closure of a nuclear power plant in Almaraz, Spain Petition 0819/2024 and Petition 1334/2024 concerning the environmental damage to Cabañeros National Park resulting from the ban on the hunting of ungulates
What to expect after the landmark United States Supreme Court tariff ruling?
On 20 February 2026, the United States (US) Supreme Court ruled, in a landmark case, that the US International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 does not authorise the US president to impose tariffs. The ruling invalidates all tariffs that President Trump imposed under IEEPA on US trading partners, including the April 2025 'reciprocal' tariffs. The ruling is without prejudice to the US sector- and country-specific tariffs that have been levied under different legal bases. While the ruling ...
State of play: EU support to Ukraine
In response to Russia's full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine, which started in February 2022, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have provided unprecedented financial, military and humanitarian support to Ukraine. According to European Commission figures, Team Europe, consisting of the EU and its Member States, has made available around €193.5 billion in support to Ukraine. This support encompasses macro-financial assistance, financial support through the Ukraine Facility, humanitarian ...