next 6 months especially the weeks ahead with this summit coming up next week so what is the plan agel americal herself has been really someone right at the forefront of this saying that europe needs a recovery plan to stimulate the economy to pull it out of what could be a really really devastating recession even depression because you have a taste of how bad things are there were new numbers out of the european commission just yesterday for costing that the e.u. economy would contract by more than 8 percent this year that is really a dramatic contraction something that hasn't been seen in the european union's history so the idea is to put together a plan running to hundreds of billions of euros to stimulate the economy particularly in economies that have been worse hit because what we're seeing also from the economic data is that the impact of the coronavirus is not being in. evenly spread there are some countries that are being hard hit economically as well as by the pandemic much harder than others for example spain and italy they're really looking to miracle to provide leadership on that a