"Greece will not accept strict surveillance as a condition for receiving stimulus funding after Covid-19." Speaking this way in the columns of the Financial Times, Kyriakos Mitsotakis makes heard the voice of the countries of the south of Europe, mute, lately, in the negotiations around the granting of 750 billion euros of the recovery plan postpandémie. The Greek Prime Minister knows that he must punch the table before the European heads of state meet next Friday for the first postcoronavirus summit in Brussels. Eyes have so far turned to the so-called "frugal" countries of northern Europe, which favor the granting of loans. They are stepping up their pressure so that the money allocated in the form of grants is accompanied by a commitment by borrowing countries to better manage their finances.
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This line is well known to countries in the South of the continent. Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece have been imposed in recent years
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