16/11/2020 (Agence Europe) – The European Parliament adopted (471 votes in favour, 134 against and 83 abstentions) a resolution on the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP) and the financing of the European Green Deal on Friday 13 November. It stresses in particular that one of the objectives of the plan should be to ensure a just transition to a sustainable economy. To this end, MEPs stress the importance of respecting the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, which applies to both environmental and social objectives, to guide the way investments are made in the post-Covid-19 recovery. Parliament also stresses the need to take into account the criteria set out in the EU Taxonomy Regulation (2020/852), as well as to ensure the alignment of Member States’ recovery plans with their National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). See the resolution: https://bit.ly/3pzcLTf (DG)