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Germany was originally entitled to a maximum financial contribution of €25.6 billion in grants from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the unprecedented EU response to the crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) for Germany does not include requests for loans. Following the July 2024 amendment of the German NRRP, which added a REPowerEU chapter, the EU resources devoted to the plan reached €30.3 billion. This amount corresponds to 4 ...

EU support for the implementation of Slovenia's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) amounts to €2 082.4 million, and includes €1 613 million in grants and €469 million in loans. This amount is €400 million lower than that initially approved, and takes into account the June 2022 update of the maximum financial contribution from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the non-repayable allocation for REPowerEU made available in 2023, as well as the latest April 2026 revision that decommitted ...

This briefing relates to ECON’s scrutiny of the delegated act (DA) on temporary adjustments to Basel III market risk rules (the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book / FRTB), adopted by the Commission on 4 June 2026, C(2026)3647, under Article 461a(2)(a) CRR. It explains the background, legal procedure, and the amendments effected via this DA to the legal basis, i.e. the Capital Requirements Regulation 575/2013 (CRR).

This briefing note covers the main elements of the 2026 European Semester Spring Package proposed by the European Commission, notably the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact (2025), the 2026 country-specific recommendations (CSRs), the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure and the Joint Employment Guidelines. Please refer to EGOV dedicated briefings for a detailed analysis of the implementation of the SGP in 2025 and assessment of the energy price shock.

In absolute figures, Italy's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) is the largest national plan under the Next Generation EU (NGEU) instrument. It is endowed with EU resources worth €71.8 billion in grants and €122.6 billion in loans, jointly representing 26.1 % of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), or 10.8 % of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019 (the RRF being 5.2 % of EU 27 GDP in 2019). Launched in 2021, the plan underwent seven revisions, of which the second in ...

During its May 2026 plenary session, the European Parliament is set to vote on the provisional agreement on the revised Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Screening Regulation. The new regulation would define a minimum scope for mandatory screening by the EU Member States, strengthen cooperation and accountability, and streamline processes and interoperability, thus providing for a common minimum level of harmonisation.

This study was provided by the Budgetary Support Unit at the request of the Committee on Budgets with the aim of examining the investment needs identified in the Draghi and Letta reports and their implications for the EU budget. It examines how the strategic orientations and quantified investment gaps set out in these two reports are reflected in the European Commission’s proposals for the 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and assesses the potential contribution of EU budgetary instruments ...

Croatia's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) is an ambitious outline of reforms and investment designed to mitigate the pandemic's socioeconomic fallout and to address the consequences of the two devastating earthquakes of 2020. Following the December 2023 amendment of the Croatian NRRP, to which a REPowerEU chapter was added, the plan's worth reached €10 040.7 million (or 18.5 % of national gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019). The amended plan comes with a grant allocation of €5 779.4 ...

Under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), Lithuania was initially set to receive financial support worth €3 849.2 million to implement its national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP), including for the REPowerEU chapter. These resources represent 0.5 % of the entire RRF, equal to 7.9 % of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019. In June 2022, the original plan, initially worth €2 224 million, was revised downwards to €2 100 million. In June 2023, Lithuania submitted a request ...

The Polish national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) – Krajowy Plan Odbudowy – is the third biggest plan under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It totals €54.7 billion, including €25.3 billion in grants and €29.4 billion in loans. The loan component has been reduced from €34.5 billion following the decrease in the level of implementation of several measures. Poland's NRRP has been revised four times, first on 8 December 2023 to add the REPowerEU chapter. The latest amendment was approved ...