Parliament's role in the annual EU budget

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