Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Each year, the European Union decides how to allocate billions of euros to key areas like the digital and green transitions, agriculture or regional development.
🔎 How does this budget get approved? Who checks whether the money is well spent? That’s where the European Parliament steps in!
In this video, we explain how this process works in a nutshell. We also take a closer look at the discharge of the European Commission.
Learn more about the European Parliament’s role in the annual EU budget & its discharge in our EPRS publications:
📑 Annual EU budgetary procedure: Introduction to the steps in the European Parliament: https://europa.eu/!QQGRmc
📑 Discharge procedure for the EU Budget: Political scrutiny of budgetary implementation: https://europa.eu/!3MRjBM
Each year, the European Union decides how to allocate billions of euros to key areas like the digital and green transitions, agriculture or regional development.
🔎 How does this budget get approved? Who checks whether the money is well spent? That’s where the European Parliament steps in!
In this video, we explain how this process works in a nutshell. We also take a closer look at the discharge of the European Commission.
Learn more about the European Parliament’s role in the annual EU budget & its discharge in our EPRS publications:
📑 Annual EU budgetary procedure: Introduction to the steps in the European Parliament: https://europa.eu/!QQGRmc
📑 Discharge procedure for the EU Budget: Political scrutiny of budgetary implementation: https://europa.eu/!3MRjBM
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Electrification is gaining momentum across many sectors, including transport, buildings and industry, driven by the EUs climate ambition and security of supply. As the cost of renewable energy technologies like solar and wind continues to fall, electrification presents an opportunity to reshape the European economy, enhancing competitiveness and promoting sustainable growth.
See the paper publication behind this podcast:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2024)762859
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To reach the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global temperature increase well below 2°C, the EU must consider every possible technology to decarbonise its energy production. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers our sun and we can recreate it on Earth. However, even if we overcome the considerable engineering challenges of designing a fusion power plant, there are hard constraints to upscaling fusion power.
See the paper behind this podcast:
https://epthinktank.eu/2023/07/07/what-if-we-could-make-nuclear-fusion-work-science-and-technology-podcast/
🎧 Listen to our podcasts reporting on the latest science and technology developments, looking into the impact they will have on our lives and capturing their policy implications:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/european-parliament-eprs-science/id1110775762?mt=2
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6XP9MnZdCDTnyDWXeDdnPx
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Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/show/2556652
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