The Recovery Fund, which EU leaders will discuss on Thursday 23 April, will have to be set up "in the coming weeks" to stimulate economic recovery and cannot therefore be part of the negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027, Eurogroup President Mário Centeno told the European Parliament's Economic and Financial Affairs Committee on Tuesday 21 April.
We have to be "ambitious" to find "new money" in an "innovative way" that will spread the costs over time, the...