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Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Gentiloni are invited to the 14th Recovery and Resilience Dialogue (RRD) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) Regulation. The previous RRD took place on 11 December 2023. This briefing describes the state of play of the implementation of the RRF, and then focusses on the Commission’s recent preliminary assessments of milestones and targets related to payment requests submitted by Portugal, Germany, France, Slovakia, and Italy.

Macroeconomic surveillance

EU Fact Sheets 30-01-2024

Over the past decade, the EU has experienced major macroeconomic imbalances (which exacerbated the negative effects of the financial crisis that began in 2008) and serious divergences in competitiveness (which prevented the effective use of common monetary policy measures). In 2011, the EU set up the macroeconomic imbalance procedure (MIP) – a surveillance and enforcement procedure intended to facilitate the early identification and correction of such imbalances in Member States, paying specific ...

Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Finance is participating in the ECON Committee in his capacity of President of the ECOFIN Council during the Belgian Presidency (January - June 2024). In accordance with the Treaty of the Union, “Member States shall regard their economic policies as a matter of common concern and shall coordinate them within the Council”. This document provides an overview of the Belgian Presidency priorities in ECON matters, including the Council ...

Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Gentiloni have been invited to an Economic Dialogue on the fiscal part of the 2024 European Semester autumn package adopted by the Commission in November 2023. The fiscal elements of the package include the Commission Opinions on the euro area 2024 Draft Budgetary Plans, the fiscal policy recommendation for the euro area and some elements of the 2024 Alert Mechanism Report. In 2024, the general escape clause of the Stability and Growth Pact will ...

This paper provides and overview of the role of the European Parliament in scrutinising the application and implementation of the EU economic governance framework, notably by holding Economic Dialogues with the EU executive institutions and, when applicable, with Member States’ governments. We also assess the envisaged role for EU parliaments in the European Commission’s economic governance reform proposals, notably as regards transparency and parliamentary involvement at EU and national level. This ...

The EU framework for fiscal policies

EU Fact Sheets 14-12-2023

In order to ensure the stability of the Economic and Monetary Union, a robust framework is needed to prevent unsustainable public finances as far as possible. A reform (part of the ‘Six Pack’) amending the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) entered into force at the end of 2011. Another reform in this policy area, the intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (TSCG), including the Fiscal Compact, entered into force in early 2013. Furthermore ...

This document provides an overview of key developments under the Stability and Growth Pact on the basis of the latest Council fiscal recommendations and decisions and the latest European Commission economic forecasts. It also includes a section on the on-going review of the EU fiscal framework. This document is regularly updated.

Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Gentiloni are invited to the 13th Recovery and Resilience Dialogue (RRD) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) Regulation. The previous RRD took place on 2 October. This briefing describes the state of play of the implementation of the RRF, and then focusses on an analysis of those modified RRPs that contain a REPowerEU chapter and were already approved by the Council, detailing on some information presented therein and commenting ...

Economic governance

EU Fact Sheets 05-12-2023

Economic governance refers to the system of institutions and procedures established to achieve EU objectives in the economic field, namely the coordination of economic policies to promote economic and social progress for the EU and its citizens. The financial, fiscal and economic crises that began in 2008 showed that the EU needed a more effective model of economic governance than the economic and fiscal coordination in force until then. Developments in economic governance, still ongoing, include ...

This document provides a snapshot of the state-of-play on EU national parliaments involvement at the early stage (spring 2023) of the current EU economic governance reform debate. The summary is based on replies from 20 parliament chambers from 16 EU member states