The debate over the European response to COVID-19 between MEPs and the European Commission on Thursday 16 April has led to a consensus over the need to wipe the slate clean and approach the future of the European Union with renewed budgetary, strategic and ideological ambitions.
In the opinion of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, only the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) will make it possible to implement a new 'Marshall Plan’ (see EUROPE B12460A5). She...