On Monday 24 August, the European Commission proposed granting a total of €81.4 billion in financial assistance to fifteen Member States under the SURE instrument in order to support national short-time working schemes. It will soon do the same for Portugal and Hungary, which have made an official request for it.
Italy and Spain take the lion's share of this envelope, which is to be distributed as follows: - Italy €27.4 billion; - Spain €21.3 billion; - Poland €11.2 billion; -...