On 27 April 2017, the European Parliament – on a recommendation by the Council – granted the Commission discharge for the financial year 2015. Discharge is the process by which the European Parliament and Council scrutinise the implementation of the EU budget and hold the Commission accountable ...
This report assesses whether the Commission’s post-crisis action to strengthen the EU Member States’ budgetary frameworks achieved the intended results. The EU’s legislative action provided impetus; however, the legal framework leaves room for improvement and the Commission has so far only limit...
The Commission presented its proposals for a new and modern long-term budget, tightly geared to the Union’s priorities, in May and June 2018. This was followed by an intensive period of technical work in both the European Parliament and the Council. The European Council in December 2018 called o...
