The Committee on Budgets has re-elected ECR MEP Johan Van Overtveldt as its chairman.

Van Overtveldt entered the European Parliament for the first time in 2014 for the Flemish centre-right party N-VA. A distinguished financial scientist and journalist, he served as Belgian Finance Minister from October 2014 to 2018. He was re-elected to the European Parliament in the two subsequent European elections and has been chairman of the Committee on Budgets since 2019. He is also a member of the Bureau of the ECR Group.

Speaking after his election, Van Overtveldt said:

“I am honoured to be re-elected as Chair of the Budget Committee, and to have the confidence of my colleagues. I therefore look forward to a constructive cooperation. After all, important work awaits the Budget Committee over the next months and years. The annual budgets and the preparation of the next Multiannual Financial Framework are of course the cornerstones of our work. I sincerely hope that we can continue to evolve towards a future-proof budget that stimulates investment, supports the purchasing power of citizens and the competitiveness of our companies, and focuses on real and current needs, such as the support for Ukraine and strengthening military capacities in the European Union. It also remains our task to safeguard the quality of expenditures.”

ECR co-chairmen Nicola Procaccini and Joachim Brudziński congratulated Van Overtveldt on his re-election.