The European Commission has called on governments to make a real effort to focus on digitizing economies and tackling climate change when developing EU-funded reforms and investments as part of the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, AP reported.

The European Parliament intends to approve hundreds of billions of euros in EU grants and loans to rebuild Europe after the pandemic.

But officials said the reform projects and investment plans presented to the EC show a bias towards spending rather than structural reforms, and some of them lack original ideas for transforming the economy to match EU ambitions to make the bloc's economy more 'green' and digital in the coming years.