The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Thursday 2 April in Brussels that she wanted to ensure that the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027 is a new “Marshall Plan”, named after the US programme of loans to individual European states to help rebuild cities bombed during the Second World War.
The European Commission is preparing a new proposal on the MFF to take into account the response to the COVID-19 crisis and to put in...