As preparations for national recovery plans enter their final phase, the European Commission urged Member States at the video conference meeting of EU Finance Ministers on Friday 16 April to focus on the quality of their plans rather than on the speed.
The implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the budgetary instrument at the heart of the Next Generation EU Recovery Plan (see EUROPE B12654A1), was indeed at the forefront of the Ecofin Council meeting. The “as a rule”...