The European Commissioner for Budgets, Algirdas Simita, acknowledged the difficulties that had been faced in sourcing an extra 2, 4bn for the European Economic Recovery Plan.

BBC: Budget 2010 debate

He was delivering a ministerial statement on the cod recovery plan, which lays out how much time many European fishermen are allowed to spend at sea, on Wednesday 7 December 2011.

BBC: Ministerial statement: Cod recovery plan

Finally, there is a part of Plan B that may move up the agenda regardless, if the European recovery continues to stall: a radical change of heart at the ECB.

BBC: Plan B for the eurozone?