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It represents the creation of an important fiscal risk-sharing mechanism aimed at fostering economic recovery and enhancing long-term sustainability through public investments in the green and digital goals and structural reforms. This policy brief identifies four main functions of the RRF and characterises how successful it was in delivering on them: To serve as a fiscal stimulus and financial market stress reduction tool; to protect public investments; to facilitate the green and digital transition; to serve as an engine of structural reforms. Some challenges have crystallised, however, throughout the implementation of the RRF related to shortcomings in its design: the lack of flexibility to adjust National Recovery and Resilience Plans in light of multiple shocks related to inflation, geopolitical developments, new priorities in member states and government changes. The performance-based approach and the bundling of multiple reforms and investments require rethinking and cannot be implemented in the same way in the next Multiannual Financial Framework. 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