Economic Dialogue with the Commission on 2017 Draft Budgetary Plans / Economic Dialogue with the Commission on the Launch of the 2017 European Semester Cycle / Euro Area Recommendations under the European Semester

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.European Commission Vice-president Dombrovskis and European Commissioner Moscovici were invited to an Economic Dialogue on the European Commission Opinions on the 2017 Draft Budgetary Plans of the Euro Area Member States based on Articles 7 and 15 of EU Regulation 473/2013 at the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on the 12 December 2016.

Euro Area Member States which are not subject to a macro-economic adjustment programme shall submit annually their Draft Budgetary Plan (DBP) for the forthcoming year to the European Commission (COM) and the Eurogroup by 15 October. All of the 18 concerned Euro Area Member States had submitted their 2017 DBPs and the Commission issued on 16 November 2016 its Opinions on all of them.

This briefing provides an overview of these Opinions

Authors: J.Angerer and M. T. Bitterlich

See also the related url hyperlink to another EPRS In-Depth Analysis Economic Dialogue with the Commission on the Launch of the 2017 European Semester Cycle

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European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

ESO: Background information: Launch of the 2017 European Semester http://www.europeansources.info/record/launch-of-the-2017-european-semester/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, December 2016: Economic Dialogue with the Commission on the Launch of the 2017 European Semester Cycle http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/587383/IPOL_IDA(2016)587383_EN.pdf

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Briefing, December 2016: Euro area recommendations under the European Semester http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2015/542682/IPOL_BRI(2015)542682_EN.pdf

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