27/08/2021 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission announced on Friday 27 August that it had granted almost €373 million for modified Operational Programmes (OPs) to Belgium (€64.8 million), Germany (€131.1 million), Spain (€87 million) and Italy (€90 million) in the framework of REACT-EU, the European initiative to tackle the coronavirus. As of 19 August, over half of REACT-EU (€47.5 billion for the period 2021-2022) had already been mobilised (see EUROPE B12774A10). (PH)