A delegation from the commission of Budgetary control of the European Parliament will be in spain from Monday 20 to Wednesday 22 February to examine how European recovery funds are being used, the so-called Next Generation EU. The mission to Spain will be made up of 10 MEPs, members of various political groups, six of whom are attached to the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control, which after their return to Brussels will prepare a report on it.
It will analyze the fulfillment of milestones and objectives, as well as the management, audit and control systems in force.
MEPs, led by the chair of the committee, Monika Hohlmeierwant to assess on the ground the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, including the fulfillment of milestones and objectives, and in particular the management, audit and control systems in force.
Together with the president of the Europarliamentary commission, Monika Hohlmeier, who leads the delegation, a group of MEPs travels, mostly Spanish: Isabel Benjumea (PP), Isabel García Muñoz and Eider Gardiazabal (PSOE), Eva María Poptcheva and Susana Solís ( Cs), Ernest Urtasun (En Comú Podem) and Jorge Buxadé (Vox).
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The MEPs are scheduled to meet with the First Vice President and Minister for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño; the Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, and the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, José Luis Escrivá, as well as regional councilors from Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid, Extremadura, Andalusia and Aragon. They will also meet with representatives of employers and unions, the digital industry, consultancy and investigative journalists.
At the proposal of the Spanish Government, they will also visit a project financed by the National Recovery Plan, the National Center for Neurotechnology. “As representatives of the EU budgetary control authority, we want to see with our own eyes what is being done at the national level to protect the financial interests of the EU with this new financial instrument,” said the head of the delegation, Monika Hohlmeier, before the visit.
The Committee on Budgetary Control, made up of 30 MEPs, is one of the 20 permanent committees of the European Parliament and its job is to monitor how the budget of the European Union has been spent and to formulate proposals to improve its management.
