AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – 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.
(Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Jon Boyle)
