Recovery and Resilience Facility

The Polish Presidency presented its work programme in the field of economic and financial affairs. Ministers held a policy debate…

Among other issues, EU Finance Ministers were informed of the customs reform progress. They also debated the revision of the…

Customs reform Ministers will be informed of the progress of work within the Council on...

The EU Council today approved the EU Commission’s positive assessment of Italy’s amended recovery and resilience plan. According to the…

The EU Council reached an agreement on the VAT for the digital age package, discussed the implementation of the Recovery…

At the EU Ecofin Council, EU Finance ministers discussed the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility. They also debated…

Following its assessment of the payment request submitted on 6 June 2024, the EU Commission has preliminarily concluded that Greece…

Greece´s 4th payment request concerns one target under the loan facility component. This target requires that an aggregate of €4.5…

Among the issues on the agenda are the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the support to Ukraine and the EU mandate…

The payment request covers important steps in the delivery of 24 reforms and ten investments that will drive positive change for…

"Clearly, productivity is a strong driver of competitiveness and we note that average productivity growth has stagnated in the EU…

Today, the Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Estonia's second payment request for €122.3 (net of pre-financing) million…

Today, the Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Croatia's fourth payment request for €162.5 million under the Recovery and…

Today, the Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Denmark's second payment request for €422 million under the Recovery and…

The aid will take the form of a direct grant and will support the construction of a direct reduction plant and three new electric arc furnaces. The…

Unprecedented in its scale and ambition, the RRF was established in February 2021 and has the two-fold objective of helping…

Today, the Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Lithuania's second payment request for €360 million in loans under…

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €4 billion German scheme made available in part through…

These cover a set of transformative reforms such as tax reforms to promote the electrification of industry and encourage investment in low-carbon…

On 28 December 2023, the Commission disbursed €779.5 million to Hungary in loans, €109.8 million to Lithuania in loans, as…

On 29 December 2023, the Commission received Italy's fifth payment request for €10.6 billion in grants and loans (net of pre-financing). Italy's…

Germany received the first payment under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The payment amounts to € 4 billion. On 15 September,…

Cyprus's second payment request is worth €152 million in grants (net of pre-financing) and concerns a total of 33 milestones and 5 targets. This payment request covers…

This request covers a set of transformative reforms aimed at speeding up the digitalisation of public administration by setting up digitalisation competence…

A set of transformative reforms is included. The new Flood Risk Management Plan addresses one of the most relevant climate change risks in Slovenia.…

Today, the Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Slovakia's payment request for €662 million in grants under the Recovery…

This payment request relates to a target requiring that €3.5 billion of RRF loans are signed by financial institutions and…

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €5.7 billion Italian scheme made available in part through…

On 31 July 2023, France submitted to the Commission a payment request based on the achievement of the 16 milestones…

They cover several reforms related to the green transition, continuous learning and social, health care and rescue services, as well as calls…

Payments under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), are performance-based and depend on the implementation by Estonia of the investments and reforms…

Economic governance review The Council will discuss the proposed reform of the economic governance framework....

The Croatian recovery and resilience plan is supported by €5.5 billion in grants. Croatia requested to modify its plan and…

The payment request also includes a series of reforms aiming to enhance preschool, school, and higher education as well as lifelong learning,…

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €910 million Italian scheme made available in part through…

Today's payment of €2.76 billion in grants and loans was made possible by Romania's fulfilment of 49 milestones and targets linked to the second instalment. They…

The third payment, which is net of pre-financing, concerns 21 milestones and 6 targets. These cover a set of transformative reforms aimed at improving the legal…

On 30 June 2023, Estonia submitted to the Commission a payment request based on the achievement of the 28 milestones…

The Commission has today adopted its second annual report on the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the €800 billion…

The Council discussed a request by Spain to include Catalan, Basque and Galician in Regulation No 1/1958, which governs the EU’s language…

This first payment request relates to 36 milestones and five targets. These cover numerous investments, for instance in the area of jobs…

Once a Member State has fulfilled all the relevant milestones and targets to unlock a Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)…

Croatia's third payment request for €700 million (net of pre-financing) relates to 32 milestones and 13 targets. They cover investments in areas such…

Disparities in labour market outcomes (i.e., employment and unemployment rates), competitiveness, research and innovation, digital and energy efficiency are also…

Brussels, 24 May 2023 The Commission is today providing guidance to Member States under the...

Brussels, 20 April 2023 Today’s payment of €700 million in grants was made possible by...

Brussels, 4 April 2023 The European Commission has published today updated State aid guiding templates to assist...

Brussels, 31 March 2023 Following today’s payment of €6 billion to Spain, the Commission has now...

Brussels, 22 March 2023 Today’s payments are made possible by Czechia and by Slovakia’s fulfilment...

Brussels, 17 March 2023 Yesterday, the Commission launched an open public consultation to gather views on the...