Coronavirus: Paris threatens to frustrate the Centeno plan

New solidarity test for the Twenty-Seven. After the failure of the meeting of European leaders two weeks ago, the finance ministers will again try this Tuesday afternoon to agree, by videoconference, on a plan to support the hardest-hit countries affected by the coronavirus crisis. In light of the names of birds exchanged in recent days between certain leaders of the bloc, many were careful, Monday, to make predictions. “ Either the Eurogroup meeting (at nineteen) is going well and a videoconference of the Twenty-Seven could be scheduled for the end of the week. Either there is no unanimity and no consensus, and it will take place after Easter, "confided, cautiously, a European diplomat.

Mario Centeno, president of the Eurogroup and Portuguese Minister of Finance, announced at the end of last week the outlines of the plan put on the table. It has three main components: the activation of a line of credit under the Mechanism

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