The proposed EU recovery fund — a mix of grants and loans — would be paid back over 30 years starting in 2028, in part with new taxes including a carbon tax, a digital tax and a tax on non-recycled plastics.
The proposed 750 billion euro fund would be made up of 500 billion euros in grants — a package that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week — and 250 billion euros in loans.
The money would be raised on the capital markets and would be paid back over a 30-year period starting in 2028, in part with new taxes including a carbon tax, a digital tax and a tax on non-recycled plastics, according to the European Commission.Economies across the European Union have been hit hard by the pandemic, with member states like Italy and Spain bearing the brunt.
For the proposal to go forward, every one of the EU's 27 member states needs to back it. Several countries object to taking on more debt. Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden — known as"the frugal four" — reject the idea of cash handouts to relatively poorer countries and would prefer to make low-interest loans to the hardest-hit nations.
"It's safe to say that we have difficult negotiations ahead of us and that there won't be any decisions made at the next EU leaders conference," Merkel said."We must aim to find enough time this autumn for each member state's national parliament, plus the EU parliament, to vote on this, so that the budget can come into effect on the first of January 2021."
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