The European Parliament feels that it is not treated as well as the Council of the European Union in terms of the information received from the European Commission on the recovery plans that Member States have to submit to the European level under the Next Generation EU Recovery Plan.
MEPs will make this clear on Tuesday 18 May, during a debate in plenary session. Also, based on a proposal from the EPP group supported by the Renew Europe and ECR groups, MEPs will adopt a short resolution to this effect on Thursday 20 May.
On Wednesday 12 May, at the meeting of the Conference of Presidents of the political groups (CoP), all of the political groups supported the move to send a strong message to the Commission. But the S&D, Identity and Democracy, Greens/EFA, and The Left groups were initially in favour of sending a letter on behalf of the CoP.
Eighteen Member States have submitted their National Recovery Plans
The Commission also announced on Monday 17 and Saturday 15 May that it had received the recovery plans from Cyprus, Croatia and Lithuania, a step that has been taken by a total of 18 Member States to date.
The Cypriot authorities have presented a recovery plan that will provide €1 billion in grants and €227 million in loans. They advocate five areas of intervention: public health and civil protection, ecological transition, the labour market and education.
The Croatian plan will be provided with €6.4 billion in grants. It is structured around major axes such as the environmental and digital transitions, modernisation of public administration and justice, education and science, the labour market, social protection and health.
Lithuania will make use of €2.2 billion in the form of grants. The Lithuanian plan focuses broadly on the same thematic priorities as the Croatian plan.
See the Lithuanian plan: https://bit.ly/3fqXD5V
Seven Member States - Austria, Estonia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Finland - have yet to formally notify the ratification of the decision on own resources to the EU budget, which is a prerequisite for the market operations that will allow the Commission to finance the European Recovery Plan on behalf of the EU27.
More information on the national plans: https://bit.ly/3xDW6C9 (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)