Renew Europe MEPs Guy Verhofstadt (Belgium) and Luis Garicano (Spain) believe that the proposal in the pipeline to set up a recovery fund to revive the European economy paralysed by COVID-19 (see EUROPE B12474A1) is certainly a step forward, as it focuses on the Community method, which gives the European Parliament a budgetary surveillance role.
However, in their view, this proposal could go even further, in particular on the modalities of aid granted to Member States and the issue of own...