Keyword: European recovery fund

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European Economic Recovery

This week’s IGM European Economic Experts Panel statements: A) Right now, the central focus of fiscal policy should be on temporary measures to provide protection and promote rapid economic recovery rather than trying to advance other objectives, such as reducing debt, tackling climate change or addressing inequality. B) Cutting taxes on firms (or delaying tax collection) will allow more of them to survive and be more effective than public spending for triggering a rapid economic recovery. C) European recovery fund disbursements to crisis-hit countries should be primarily in the form of grants rather than loans. D) European recovery fund disbursements to crisis-hit countries should not be made on condition of commitments to reform by recipients.