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The funds raised will not go directly towards governments but will be administered through the MFF.Īccording to the plan, “Member States will design their own tailored national recovery plans, based on the investment and reform priorities identified as part of the European Semester”.

There are, of course, strings attached to the recovery facility, which will be “embedded” in the European Semester, the EU’s framework for surveilling and controlling member states’ national budgets. The heart of the proposal is the creation of a new ‘Recovery and Resilience Facility’ of €560bn. The recovery plan aims to boost certain aspects of the next long-term EU budget, the Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF). If the Commission proposal is agreed upon by all 27 member states and the European Parliament, it will not be the first time a Eurobond has been used, but it will be the first time that a large sum is raised. The bonds will be repaid after 2027 and before 2058, and have varying maturities. The Commission proposes to temporarily lift the ceiling on the EU’s own resources by 0.6 per cent of the EU’s gross national income in order to borrow the €750bn on the financial markets, to be spent during the period 2021-2024. The latter refers to the agreement between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson in the US in 1790 for the new federal government to assume the colonies’ wartime debt, viewed by historians as a defining moment in the development of the US federal system. Her plan was welcomed by many EU government leaders and has been hailed by the media as “ historic”, “ fiscal shock and awe”, and the EU’s “ Hamilton moment”. The von der Leyen proposal followed the announcement of a deal between Germany and France on 18 May for a common debt instrument to raise €500bn to be disbursed as grants. The funds would be disbursed as €500bn in grants and €250bn in loans.

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