Economic and Financial Affairs

The Spanish payment request covered 44 milestones and 17 targets. These include reforms to advance the green and digital transition, smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, and economic, institutional and social resilience and territorial cohesion. The payment also covers investments in the digital and green transition, research, development and innovation, as well as education and vocational training.

The Greek payment request covered one target: further progress in the delivery of the Loan Facility. This measure aims to mobilise private investments in areas such as the green and digital transitions, increasing export capacity, and research, development and innovation.

The Croatian payment request covered 25 milestones and 12 targets. These include several reforms and investments in the areas of digitalisation, public administration, clean transport, mobility, water and wastewater management, tourism, judiciary, education and health.

This paper analyses the state of play and key determinants of EU secondary markets for materials and products/components in the context of increasing the circularity of the EU economy.

This paper analyses total factor productivity growth developments in the EU as compared to the US on the basis of the latest vintage of the EU-KLEMS database.

The Special topic examines the relationship between consumer confidence and a number of measurable economic variables, focusing on the negative confidence gap observed since 2023.

This paper presents the main features of the Loan Facility, the loans component in Greece’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), and a first assessment of its economic impact using the European Commission’s QUEST model.

An overview of economic developments in candidate and pre-candidate countries.

This Economic Brief analyses the euro area fiscal stance since 2020, i.e. the impulse that national budgets and the EU budget have been providing to the euro area economy since the pandemic.