Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-000571/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Isabel Benjumea Benjumea (PPE), Dolors Montserrat (PPE)
The Spanish Government has allocated over EUR 117 million in Recovery and Resilience Facility funding to the Spanish broadcasting company Radio Televisión Española (RTVE). This would make RTVE, a public entity, one of the main beneficiaries of those EU recovery funds.
The various projects RTVE has financed using those EU funds have not had the impact expected – they have actually been very controversial owing to breaches of regulatory requirements, the return of some of the funding, and the state of RTVE’s finances.
In light of the fact that RTVE is in such dire financial straits that it, firstly, has been forced by the unsustainable state of its accounts to turn to a government reserve fund, and secondly, continues to run up debt: should the Recovery and Resilience Facility be used to fund such a public entity – especially if the projects funded have not achieved the targets they were designed to?
Submitted: 7.2.2025