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Czechia's National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
Under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), Czechia is currently set to receive a total contribution of €8 752.3 million, corresponding to 4.2 % of its 2019 gross domestic product (GDP). This amount consists of €8 409.2 million in grants (including €680.5 million in REPowerEU grants and €54.9 million transferred from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve) and €343.1 million in loans. This total reflects several revisions of Czechia's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP), which initially amounted ...
Bulgaria's National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
Under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the EU response to the COVID-19 crisis, Bulgaria is set to receive €6 174.1 million in grants, including €479.3 million under REPowerEU and €6 million from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve. Any additional financing must be covered by national or private co-funding. Bulgaria's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) corresponds to 10.1 % of its 2019 gross domestic product (GDP) (the RRF amounts to 5.2 % of EU-27 2019 GDP), the eighth-highest share ...
Economic Dialogues of the European Parliament with other EU Institutions under the European Semester Cycle
This document provides an overview of the European Parliament’s committee-level Economic Dialogues with other institutions of the European Union under the European Semester for economic policy coordination. It also lists the Recovery and Resilience Dialogues with the European Commission as undertaken by the competent committee(s) since the start of the current legislative term in June 2024, and includes an overview of the respective legal bases. During the 10th legislative term, the competent committees ...
The Netherlands' National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
The Netherlands is set to receive €5 441.4 million to implement its national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP). The amount is composed of €4 707.1 million in Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) grants and an additional €734.4 million for a REPowerEU chapter (including €280 million transferred from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve). This chapter, aimed at bolstering energy resilience and sustainability, was added with the plan's October 2023 revision. With a value of 0.7 % of Dutch gross domestic ...
China: Economic indicators and trade with EU
This infographic provides insight into the economic performance of China compared with the European Union (EU) and examines the trade dynamics between them. In 2024, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate was recorded at 5%, while the EU experienced a growth rate of 1.1%. Chinese inflation rates remain stable at 0.2%. The exchange rate of the renminbi-yuan continues to rise, reaching 7.8 units per euro in 2024. Trade in goods and services between the EU and China has remained relatively ...
Slovakia's National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
Slovakia is set to receive €6 408.5 million, solely in grants, to implement its national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP), representing 6.8 % of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019. That grant allocation includes the revised Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) grant allocation (€6 005.8 million), REPowerEU grants (€366.4 million), and a transfer of the country's remaining share from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (€36.3 million). On 8 May 2025, the European Commission adopted ...
2026 Commission work programme
On 21 October 2025, the European Commission under Ursula von der Leyen's second mandate adopted its work programme for 2026 (2026 CWP). In line with the Commission President's political guidelines and letter of intent and highlighting the need for full implementation of Mario Draghi's competitiveness report, the 2026 CWP places a strong emphasis on competitiveness, innovation and collective security. In parallel, the Commission commits to advancing simplification, implementation, and this year, also ...
How the ECB can stay in a ‘good place’
We analyse the euro area economic outlook, the European Central Bank’s monetary policy stance and its communication strategy. We offer suggestions for complementing monetary policy statements: including additional indicators, publishing scenario analyses, and being more explicit about secondary objective considerations. We indicate guidelines for future policy analysis, like how structural changes in the economy influence monetary policy, trade-offs between different roles of the ECB, the impact ...
Structured Dialogue on Competition Policy
Executive Vice-President Ribera, charged with the Competition portfolio, has been invited to a structured dialogue in ECON on 4 December 2025. This briefing outlines key principles of competition policy, and elaborates on the available State aid data, to illustrate its size (exceeding the EU budget) and use.
Outcome of the 2025 G20 Leaders' Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa
For the first time, the G20 leaders met on the African continent. Following Indonesia, India and Brazil, the South African G20 presidency was the fourth consecutive presidency held by a country from the Global South. G20 leaders present at the summit (22-23 November 2025) adopted a 122-paragraph-long declaration, sending a signal for multilateral cooperation. However, the US boycott of the summit and the absence of other leaders, such as those from Argentina, China, Indonesia and Mexico, raises questions ...