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EU anti-coercion instrument
It is widely held that geopolitical tensions in the world are on the rise. One of the clear indicators of this phenomenon is the increasing use of economic tools for the pursuit of strategic and geopolitical goals. This can take the form of coercion used by one country against another through restrictions on trade or investment in order to interfere with their sovereign choices. In response to the EU and its Member States becoming the target of deliberate economic coercion in recent years, on 8 December ...
EU-US relations after the Inflation Reduction Act, and the challenges ahead
EPRS invites leading experts and commentators to share their thinking and insights on important topics of relevance to debate in the European institutions. In this paper, Bruce Stokes, visiting senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and associate fellow at Chatham House, offers an overview of US-EU relations since the passage of the US Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. This paper is based on the author's interviews with leading European and US experts and published analysis ...
Mapping the cost of non-Europe report: Theoretical foundations and practical considerations
This study has been drawn up by the European Added Value Unit within the European Parliament's Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services. It is part of a research project to better define the concepts of the cost of non-Europe and of European added value. The study recounts the development of these concepts and specifically how they have been used to support the European Parliament's work in setting the legislative agenda. It also presents their theoretical underpinnings and the main ...
Real challenges to the ECB
As it brings inflation down, the ECB faces lingering real-side disturbances inherited from the pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine. Its actions sometimes even deepen these disturbances. The paper argues that it simply cannot deal with them, and should not try to.
Implementation of Recovery and Resilience Plans - latest European Commission’s assessment of milestone and targets (May 2023)
This overview provides a summary of the latest state of play on the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plans (RRPs). It focuses on the latest European Commissions’ preliminary assessments of payment request from Austria and Luxembourg; the Commission attested that all related milestones and targets were satisfactorily fulfilled. It also provides some information available in the public domain regarding Italy’s upcoming payment request.
State aid in the wake of the pandemic, war and foreign subsidies
Over the last 3 years, the European Union has faced major challenges to its economy and societies, including the coronavirus pandemic, Russia's war on Ukraine and the increasingly urgent need for a green economic transition. The EU's response to these exceptional circumstances have included changes to its fiscal, monetary and investment policies, notably through the adaptation of State aid to allow Member States to support their economies by means of more direct intervention. Under competition law ...
Plenary round-up – April 2023
Highlights of the April plenary session included debates on the need for an EU strategy on relations with China and on children forcibly deported from Ukraine. Other debates addressed: energy storage; labour mobility and the social rights of striking non-EU lorry drivers; adoption of the cyber-package proposals; a digital euro; and Dieselgate (use of defeat devices in cars to disarm pollution control systems). Members also held debates on: a possible EU global health strategy; universal decriminalisation ...
Magyarország nemzeti helyreállítási és rezilienciaépítési terve: Az aktuális helyzet
Eredetileg 16 830 millió EUR volt Magyaroroszág részesedése a Helyreállítási és Rezilienciaépítési Eszközből (RRF), amiből 7176 millió EUR vissza nem térítendő támogatás, 9663 millió EUR pedig hitel (az utóbbi összeg 2023 augusztusáig áll rendelkezésre). Magyarország a rendelkezésre álló vissza nem térítendő támogatások teljes becsült összegét kérte, a hiteleket azonban nem. Figyelembe véve a Magyarország 2020–2021. évi bruttó hazai termékére (GDP) vonatkozó aktualizált adatokat, továbbá a 2022 júniusában ...
Recovery and Resilience Dialogue with the European Commission 17 April 2023
Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Gentiloni have been invited to the tenth Recovery and Resilience Dialogue (RRD) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) Regulation. Section 1 cover some recent developments relating to the implementation of RRF, such as the European Commission’s Communication of February, and the entry of force of the RePowerEU legislative framework. Section 2 focuses on the positive assessments by the Commission of the payment requests made by six EU ...
Measures tackling aggressive tax planning in the national recovery and resilience plans
This briefing focuses on policy measures to contain aggressive tax planning (ATP) that six Member States – Ireland, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta and the Netherlands – have laid out in their individual national recovery and resilience plans, which were drawn up in order to benefit from the Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery instrument. The countries were selected because their European Semester and 2019 and 2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) highlighted ATP concerns. ATP is a harmful ...