The
European Recovery Fund, proposed by the President of the European Commission,
was favourably received in the various capitals of the Member States. The
Italians and the Spaniards were happy, on one side, and the Scandinavians as
well, notwithstanding earlier positions regarding the need for
conditionalities.
It
is, in fact, a balanced plan, which reserves a good part of the resources for
grant-type financing. And it adds an incredible amount of money to other
resources already announced, either by the Commission or by the European
Central Bank. Ursula von der Leyen demonstrated opportunity and vision. Her
standing as head of the Commission comes out strengthened. Of course, behind all
this, we can guess there is the support of Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäuble,
who is now President of the German Federal Parliament and who continues to have
a lot of power, on the domestic scene of his country. In the end, these things
happen if the Germans are on board. They do not express it too loudly, but their
voice is the determinant one in matters of common economic policies,
agriculture excepted.
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