journalists there in brussels and we're now joined by our own correspondent deborah correspondent terry scholz standing by in brussels who has been following these negotiations and terry everybody is talking about as tory a deal has been made what can you tell us about the details. well we're just getting the final details i will have to go through the numbers myself but what we do know is that they managed to compromise primarily on this recovery package which we've been debating for for so many days now and this this was a compromise between those countries known as the frugal who initially wanted there to be no grants and everything to be made as loans to those countries hardest hit by coronavirus and in the end it turned out that they were able to get $390000000000.00 euros in grants which means that the money will be borrowed on the markets by the european union backed by the european union and will not need to be repaid by those countries that something that was was very controversial but then again countries like italy spain and greece are saying do not add to our debt load you know you

summit in history is within arm's reach let's go through this with your correspondent terry scholz since life and brussels terry news has just come in that the e.u. leaders have reportedly agreed on linking the corona funds to brussels wolf law which has been one of the most contentious issues what will can you tell us about that well there haven't been any details revealed yet simply that that they have reached some kind of agreement on this and this is been a really touchy issue because you've got governments like hungary and poland saying that there shouldn't be any contingency on payouts to them based on rule of law and the northern countries this saying look if you don't share our democratic values then you shouldn't share our funding either so it remains to be seen exactly how they may have worked out this wrinkle but it's just one issue that remains on the table as they continue negotiations over both the long term budget and the recovery package yet we're seeing the longest you negotiations in 2 decades here well it is now in terms of the long term track. well they're not quite b