COVID-19: MEPs urge quick action to prevent “huge recession” | Attualità | Parlamento europeo

COVID-19: MEPs urge quick action to prevent “huge recession” | Attualità | Parlamento europeo

In an EP webinar on the EU’s long-term budget and response to the crisis, MEPs urged that the recovery fund must be set up as soon as possible to prevent a major recession.

In Tuesday’s EP webinar for journalists on the EU long-term budget and Europe’s economic recovery plan, MEPs welcomed the recent French-German proposal for a €500 billion recovery fund and reiterated Parliament's position on the recovery plan as adopted in the recent plenary session.

Parliament will hear Commission President von der Leyen present the revised Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and recovery plan proposals and hold a debate in plenary session on the afternoon of Wednesday 27 May. (...)