MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Spain’s medium-term fiscal-structural plan – E-002161/2024

Question for written answer  E-002161/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Fernando Navarrete Rojas (PPE), Dolors Montserrat (PPE)

Taking into account that Regulation (EU) 2024/1263 provides that each national medium-term fiscal-structural plan should mention its status in the context of national procedures (recital 23) and that expenditure paths should be consistent with draft budgetary plans (recital 39):

• 1.Spain has been stuck in an exceptional position with regard to its budgets since the end of 2023, as a result of which the Spanish Government has failed to adopt budgets for 2024, to submit the draft general state budget for 2025 by the statutory deadline and to send a draft budgetary plan to the Commission by the submission date for the fiscal-structural plan. What view does the Commission take of Spain’s position?
• 2.To what extent does this lengthy exceptional position in a Member State undermine the credibility of the new fiscal governance framework in the EU and the proper achievement of the goal of budgetary stability?

Submitted: 18.10.2024