Economic and Financial Affairs

DG ECFIN has launched a new media partnership with France 24’s programmes Ici L’Europe and Talking Europe to help explain the major economic shifts shaping Europe today. The first programmes of this collaboration are devoted to the euro changeover in Bulgaria. Watch the 8-minute reportage to learn more about how the transition to the new currency is shaping up.

Today, the European Commission partially greenlighted Slovakia's seventh payment request for €658 million under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU.
This is an important step in the delivery of the reforms and investments tied to this payment request, in the areas of green and digital transitions, education, healthcare, and business environment improvements.