MEPs want to increase the visibility of their work in monitoring the implementation of national recovery plans under the Next Generation EU Recovery Plan.
“Rendering more visible Parliament’s role and work on the Recovery and Resilience Facility”, the budgetary instrument at the heart of the European Recovery Plan, “reinforces accountability and adds to the democratic control” of the European Commission and “facilitates interaction with citizens”, said the chairs of the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) in a letter to Parliament President David Sassoli at the end of September.
The MEPs suggest the creation of a dedicated website that would serve as a platform for all parliamentary activities related to the Recovery Plan, both for the Parliament’s plenary and for the relevant parliamentary committees and the dedicated working group. Events would also be organised in the Member States with the support of the Parliament’s decentralised offices and in cooperation with national parliaments.
These proposals, discussed at the Conference of Presidents of the political groups (CoP) on Thursday 7 October, received unanimous support, with the exception of the sovereignist group, which considers that the Parliament is not competent to act. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)