The European Parliament is one of the key advocates of gender mainstreaming - including gender responsive budgeting (GRB) - in the European Union and its Member States. In addition, it has made significant efforts to implement gender mainstreaming in its own political, administrative and...

Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the EU launched several nuclear decommissioning assistance programmes (NDAP) to help Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Slovakia safely close and dismantle their early Soviet-designed reactors while acceding to the EU. The NDAPs provide financial assistance for...

Since 2011, the EU has experienced an issue of increasing levels of payment backlog at year-end. The problem has turned out to be a recurring one, especially pressing during annual budget negotiations, and difficult to resolve with ad-hoc preventive action. The situation has deteriorated over...

The preparation process for an EU framework programme for research and innovation includes a variety of activities: evaluation of the previous programme; expert studies to define the scope and priorities of the new programme; and proposals for new instruments. The EU institutions, the advisory...

This rolling check-list presents an overview of the Special Reports of the European Court of Auditors (ECA), concentrating on those relevant for the 2016 discharge procedure. It strives to link the research topics of the Special Reports to relevant debates and positions within the European...