budget has comprised around one percent of the European gross domestic product (GDP). The summit now agreed that it will be increased to two percent of GDP for the three years from 2021 to 2023 [...] Roosebeke, Head of Department at the Centre for European Politics Freiburg, explains the outcome of the summit: "With the Reco very Fund, the EU is starting an experiment with an open outcome. The main [...] interest in them. The conditionality of the grants and loans has been subject to an intense discussion. It remains to be seen whether the national reform plans and the monitoring of