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EU anti-coercion instrument

Briefing 14-03-2024

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 ...

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

Poglobljena analiza 25-05-2023

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.

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.

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

Na kratko 21-04-2023

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 ...

Initially, Hungary's share of the total financial envelope of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) was €16 830 million, of which €7 176 million was for grants and €9 663 million loans (the latter being available until August 2023). Hungary has requested the full estimated amount of grants available, but not any loans. Taking into account Hungary's updated data on its gross domestic product (GDP) for 2020-2021 and according to the revision applied in June 2022 to all EU Member States, the Hungarian ...

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 ...

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 ...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee, analyses the implications of Brexit in relation to the profile of judicial cooperation in civil matters. It examines the existing legal framework in order to identify the areas of law in respect of which there is a gap in the relationship between the EU and the UK. It assesses the consequences of the UK's failure to accede to the 2007 Lugano ...