ECA report on RRF-funded labour market reforms in EU countries
On Wednesday 26 March 2025, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) will publish a special...
On Wednesday 26 March 2025, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) will publish a special...
These are the headlines of our weekly Insight EU Finance Monitoring, published last Friday.
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 European Commission has adopted two legal acts that will pave the way for Poland to access up to €137 billion…
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…
Today, the Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Czechia's second payment request for €702 million under the Recovery and…
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,…
Payments under the RRF are performance-based and contingent on Croatia, Denmark, Latvia and Malta implementing the reforms and investments outlined in their recovery and resilience plans. The Commission will now…
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…
The European Commission has today announced its intention to issue up to €75 billion of EU-Bonds in the first half…
This request covers a set of transformative reforms aimed at speeding up the digitalisation of public administration by setting up digitalisation competence…
The European Commission has approved a €1.1 billion Spanish scheme to support investments for the production of equipment necessary to foster the…
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…
Today, the Commission has given a positive assessment of Poland's modified recovery and resilience plan, which includes a REPowerEU chapter.…
Today, the Commission positively assessed Greece's modified recovery and resilience plan, which includes a REPowerEU chapter. The plan is now…
Today, the Commission has launched the 2024 European Semester cycle of economic policy coordination. The Autumn package draws on the Autumn 2023 Economic Forecast…
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…
The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €1.7 billion Italian scheme made available in part through…
Payments under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), are performance-based and depend on the implementation by Estonia of the investments and reforms…
Ireland's proposed modification of the plan, which will now be assessed by the Commission, concerns seven investments included in the original plan. Of…
The Croatian recovery and resilience plan is supported by €5.5 billion in grants. Croatia requested to modify its plan and…
The Council took stock of the progress on the review of the economic governance framework and stressed the need to…
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 second and the third grant instalments and the first loan instalment, which have been combined into one payment request,…
Germany's first payment request for €3.97 billion (net of pre-financing) relates to 28 milestones and 8 targets. They cover investments in areas such as…
This first payment request relates to 36 milestones and five targets. These cover numerous investments, for instance in the area of jobs…
Yesterday, Sweden submitted a request to the Commission to modify its recovery and resilience plan, to which it also wishes…
Once a Member State has fulfilled all the relevant milestones and targets to unlock a Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)…
The European Commission has today endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of 54 milestones and targets linked to Italy's third payment request…
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…
The scheme, which will run until June 2026, aims to increase the share of renewable energy sources in the Spanish…
The Commission considers that objective circumstances justify the amendments requested by Ireland. Following an assessment of the revised plan against…
The Spanish areas concerned have less than 10,000 inhabitants, and no current or planned investment in 4G networks providing speeds…