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Op deze infopagina wordt uitgelegd wat de EU-begroting is, wat de doelstellingen, de rechtsgrondslag en de belangrijkste fasen van de begrotingsprocedure zijn, hoe de begrotingsprocedure zich sinds de jaren zeventig heeft ontwikkeld en welke rol het Parlement speelt bij het opstellen van de begroting. Ook wordt toegelicht welke gestructureerde kaders er zijn waarbinnen de begroting wordt vastgesteld en hoe het opstellen van de totstandkoming van de EU-begroting wordt gecoördineerd.

The briefing analyses the Commission’s proposed National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) as a “hybrid” between Cohesion Policy shared management and the RRF’s performance-based disbursement (milestones and targets). It finds the model a workable template in principle, but one that requires redesign to ensure fair and comparable assessments and scrutiny, meaningful stakeholder participation, and monitoring that supports learning without excessive administrative burden. While verifiability is ...

The briefing argues that the RRF’s broad legal framework, confidentiality, and “financing not linked to costs” gave the Commission and Member States wide discretion, allowing large sums to fund national projects with limited EU-level relevance and weak scrutiny. It stresses that reforms are especially hard to measure, so disbursements often hinge on procedural milestones rather than substantive performance. On this basis, it criticises the Commission’s MFF package for importing the model without ...

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 ...

The Commission's proposal for the 2028-2034 Global Europe instrument seeks to ensure a more strategic approach, in line with the objectives of the EU's internal policies – particularly migration control, while taking on board EU and partner countries' mutual interests. It deeply restructures the EU's external financing architecture, introducing a new system of geographic pillars, a global pillar, and a flexible 'cushion', while integrating several existing instruments ranging from development cooperation ...