18 September 2023

ECON: The outcome of a survey on review of EU economic governance and national parliaments

This document provides a snapshot of the state-of-play on EU national parliaments involvement at the early stage (spring 2023) of the current EU economic governance reform debate. The summary is based on replies from 20 parliament chambers from 16 EU member states

In mid-March 2023, the EGOV Unit of the European Parliament launched, in close co-operation with staff of national parliaments, an initiative to collect available public information on whether and how EU national parliaments are involved in the economic governance review debate.
Of particular interest was to find out the stat-oy-play of EU national parliaments’ engagement in the debate on the European Economic Governance Review process launched by the European Commission, notably on how national parliaments are kept informed by their respective governments, and whether parliaments have established procedures for the involvement of stakeholders.
Furthermore, the survey tried to determine whether national parliaments have established a specific administrative structures to support and provide expertise on economic and budgetary matters. Additional questions looked at the current level of exchange of information and co-operation among EU parliaments’ services (staff-to-staff) on EU economic governance, including the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and on ways to possible enhance the interaction and mutual capacity building among parliament staff.
This document provides a snapshot of the state-of-play on EU national parliaments involvement at the early stage (spring 2023) of the current EU economic governance reform debate. This summary is based on replies from 20 parliament chambers from 16 EU member states (AT, BE, CY, CZ, DE, HE, IR, IT, LT, LV, LU, NL, PL, SI, ES and SE). The survey aim was to share information among parliaments and facilitate knowledge sharing within the staff-to-staff network of EU and national parliament colleagues on this subject. The cut-off date for the data collection was 21 April 2023....

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