to break a deadlock on a contentious economic recovery plan european council president charlotte michaud offered a revised proposal for the package aimed at helping countries worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic german chancellor angela merkel is chairing the summit tensions are running high between leaders whose home countries have been hit hard by the virus friday's negotiations ended earlier than expected when agreement looks unlikely the talks are hung up over the packages mix of loans and grants and who controls how countries spend the money. i'm joined now by our correspondent barbara valle who's in brussels monitoring the situation barbara there's a new proposal from the european council president it's on the table will this be any more acceptable to the more frugal members there. at this it's getting there because we've heard positive noises from several members of the austrian chancellor for instance just said that it's going in the right directions the talks were intense which is diplomatic speak for there is quite a battle raging ongoing and that's a good sign because as

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position commission president was off on the lawn will be there as well as you counsel presidential michaud who is one of the architects of the steel and there look likely to meet a large discontent with some of lot of the lawmakers already threatening to throw out the deal as we're hearing but threatening to throw out the deal i mean that would really be a massive if that doesn't happen especially considering how far hard fought this still was max what are the main criticisms. well i mean pieces are unhappy. about a long list of things i'm one of it would be. watered down rule of law mechanism and then also a significant cuts to the overall size of the european budget as well as individual programs and there were bits of budget cuts in areas such as youth research digitalisation and climate which used to be on top of huge agenda the green deal just to point out $11.00 point a cornerstone of commission president from the alliance presidency was cut sic in that significantly. given all of those factors max i mean and given all of the stakes after this resolution today how are things now like

recovery fund in terms of loans and not free grants not handouts now this concessional saturday by shell michaud proposes reducing the amount of grants from the total pot from $560000000000.00 to $500000000000.00 still huge amounts no word on actually reducing the total size of the fund it's not clear whether that's going to be enough for the likes of the dutch they also want to return has asked for effective veto powers for all of the e.u. $27.00 to be able to objects to an individual nation's spending plans to recover from coverage that's going to anger the likes of spain and italy who are going to receive a large share of this money because they've been the hardest hit on the southern periphery of the u. it's going to cause a lot of anger. show michelle has said that there could be an emergency brake he's calling it where they could actually have a 3 day opportunity to trigger a review he's gone that far he's also saying to these countries you can have a bigger rebate on your on the money that you contribute to the e.u. budget the austrian chancellor has said they still want more but it's a s