EU talks to rescue €750bn recovery package stall amid heated debate
Claim of miserliness as second day sees negotiations split over size of fund and seven-year budget
European Union leaders agreed to reconvene at noon on Sunday after spending Saturday evening locked in intense negotiations in an attempt to save a summit on the terms of a €750bn (£682bn) pandemic recovery fund from an acrimonious end as the debate over the bloc’s financial future became “heated”.
A second day of talks in Brussels saw Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, publicly accuse the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and Sweden of being “misers” while the Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, claimed the Dutch were trying to rewrite the EU’s rules.