Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs (ECFIN) - Main contents
The main task of this Directorate-General is to ensure the functioning of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). This can be achieved by monitoring economic development, co-ordinating economic policy, analysing economic policies and providing advice on economic policies.
The DG has the following tasks:
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-distributing guidelines for economic policy
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-assessment of stability and convergence programmes of member states (in which they provide, amongst other data, the development of their national deficits)
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-publishing of other reports, such as reports about public finances in the EMU, the EU Economic Overview and short- and long term economic analyses of the European Commission
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-provide economic analysis and an evaluation of policy areas of the European Union such as the internal market, agriculture and environment.
Contents
Date | Title |
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30.06.2025 | Interim Progress Report on the implementation of Council Directive 2024/1265/EU amending Council Directive 2011/85/EU on requirements for budgetary frameworks of the ... |
Report com(2025)317 |
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30.06.2025 | Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 2866/98 as regards the conversion rate to the euro for Bulgaria. |
Regulation com(2025)372 |
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27.06.2025 | Implementation and the results of the Pericles IV programme for the protection of the euro against counterfeiting in 2024. |
Report com(2025)337 |
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23.06.2025 | Implementation of macro-financial assistance to third countries in 2024. |
Report com(2025)330 |
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23.06.2025 | Existence of an excessive deficit in Austria. |
Decision com(2025)345 |
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20.09.2024 | Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine. |
Regulation com(2024)426 |
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08.07.2024 | Existence of an excessive deficit in France. |
Decision com(2024)511 |
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08.07.2024 | Existence of an excessive deficit in Belgium. |
Decision com(2024)518 |
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08.07.2024 | Existence of an excessive deficit in Poland. |
Decision com(2024)515 |
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08.07.2024 | Existence of an excessive deficit in Italy. |
Decision com(2024)513 |
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01.04.2022 | Conversion of hryvnia banknotes into the currency of host Member States for the benefit of persons fleeing the war in Ukraine. |
Recommendation com(2022)163 |
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22.11.2017 | Abrogation of Decision 2008/713/EC on the existence of an excessive deficit in the United Kingdom. |
Recommendation com(2017)801 |
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22.11.2017 | Economic policy of the euro area. |
Recommendation com(2017)770 |
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12.07.2017 | Abrogation of Decision 2009/415/EC on the existence of an excessive deficit in Greece. |
Decision com(2017)380 |
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22.05.2017 | Recommendation with a view to correcting the significant observed deviation from the adjustment path toward the medium-term budgetary objective in Romania. |
Recommendation com(2017)268 |