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31 March - 3 April: Plenary Week
In the week of 31 March, Members' work is centred on Parliament's plenary sitting, and Committees meet only in exceptional cases. During this week, the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs will meet to discuss on the Commission's proposal to apply fiscal flexibility for defence spending, and to scrutinise the Recovery and Resilience Facility. Follow the links below to discover the week's highlights.
- Budgets: Support for displaced Belgian workers
- Budgets: Budgetary assessment on the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP)
- Economic and Monetary Affairs: Exchange of views with Commissioner Dombrovskis on the defence expenditure
- BUDG-ECON: Scrutinising implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
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