The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced in person on Tuesday 8 June that the European College of Commissioners would present “next week” its first recommendations for the adoption of national recovery plans by the Council of the European Union.
“Already next week, the Commission will start to approve the national plans for Council adoption”, she said, back at the European Parliament’s seat in Strasbourg. She called it a “landmark achievement”,...