Italy’s Conte to visit Dutch PM on Friday ahead of recovery fund summit, source says

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks during a joint news conference with his Portuguese counterpart Antonio Costa (not pictured) at Sao Bento Palace, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lisbon, Portugal

Italian Prime Minister Antonio Conte will visit his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte this Friday in preparation for next week’s EU summit on the European Recovery Fund, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Agreement still looks far off, as the Dutch lead a group of countries resisting the idea, backed by Italy, of the fund largely being made up of grants instead of loans.

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