id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-268082-znfo9xgv Picek, Oliver Spillover Effects From Next Generation EU 2020-10-24 .txt text/plain 5005 349 69 By capturing a share of economic output from Southern and Eastern European member states that receive more grants, the economies of Northern and Western Europe grow by more than the respective portion of their contributions would suggest. The largest and most economically signifi cant part of the Next Generation EU package (€312.5 billion) will be paid out as grants to member states by the new European Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), a post-COVID-19 EU reconstruction programme. 4 Loans have been criticised for not being an effective way to add expenditure to the economy as they merely refi nance national expenditure that would have taken place anywaygiven the accommodating reaction of the European Central 2 Initially, the data by country was restricted to internal European Commission and member state documents, but leaked to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Kafsack, 2020) and later recalculated by Darvas (2020a,b,c) . ./cache/cord-268082-znfo9xgv.txt ./txt/cord-268082-znfo9xgv.txt