The number of cyberattacks on EU institutions, bodies and agencies (EUIBAs) is increasing sharply. As EUIBAs are strongly interconnected, weaknesses in one can expose others to security threats. We examined whether the EUIBAs have adequate arrangements to protect themselves again...
Risks stemming from climate change and broader environmental issues are changing the risk picture for the financial sector and will become even more prominent going forward. This raises the question as to whether the prudential framework can sufficiently account for these new ris...
Together the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and the European Stability Mechanism, have the pleasure of inviting you to the 4th annual flagship Capital Markets Seminar, hybrid event "Europe United: resilience, green and digital transformation".
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5G is expected to add up to €1 trillion to the European GDP between 2021 and 2025, with the potential to create or transform up to 20 million jobs across all sectors of the economy. We observed that delays are putting at risk the achievement of the EU’s objectives for 5G deployme...
Cohesion policy represents one of the largest parts of the EU budget. It is also a policy area, where we consider the risk of irregular expenditure to be high. A relevant and reliable estimated level of error in cohesion spending is therefore a key element for the Commission’s di...
Investment funds play a key role in the European capital markets union, helping investors to allocate their capital efficiently. We assessed the suitability of the regulatory framework, the EU’s efforts to create similar and effective supervision in all Member States as well as i...
Within our mandate we carry out an examination of the annual accounts and the underlying transactions, for nine EU Joint Undertakings (collectively referred to as ‘Joint Undertakings’ or ‘JUs’): the eight JUs currently operating under Horizon 2020 (H2020), the research and innova...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) macroeconomic shock was different from previous crises in terms of its speed, the severity of the resulting job losses, the fiscal support provided in response and the stability of house prices. In response to this sudden shock and in line with European...
Our flagship report illustrates how the European Investment Bank Group confronted two great threats in 2021, the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, even as the challenges posed by development grew more urgent. The EU bank tackled these hazards by thinking hard and movin...