Spain and Italy will receive the lion’s share of the 750-billion-euro EU rescue fund but opinions vary over whether it will help their economies roar back to life or go to waste.
The two countries will receive almost half of the 750 billion euros earmarked by Brussels to relaunch Europe’s economies that have been devastated by the Covid-19 epidemic, funded through an unprecedented joint borrowing mechanism.
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This is a LOT of money to borrow from the EU. There will be a VERY heavy price to pay in surrendering sovereignty to the US of E, on top of the generations of financial debt that’s about to be dumped on Spain’s descendants. I’m glad I won’t be around when all that comes on top.
As Sanchez has said this is a further step to his desired United States of Europe. Though I'm not sure how the richer northen countries will take to constantly bailing out Greece, Spain etc. This is when we find out solid the EU really is!