Don't say that northern Europeans don't like southern Europeans. It's quite the opposite. You have to see, every summer on the highways of France, the cars from the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Germany which hurtle towards Spain, Italy and the Mediterranean. Even in this year of Covid, these millions of tourists will spend without too much billions of hard-earned euros on the beaches of the Costa del Sol or the terraces of Tuscany. "It looks like the South, time lasts a long time ... And always in summer ..."
The summer lavishness does not, however, prevent frugality the rest of the year… For the past few weeks, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel have had a bitter experience. They are struggling not without difficulty to try to convince a handful of northern countries to agree to finance the massive aid plan of 750 billion euros to help the countries most weakened by the crisis, those of the South in this case. . The former criticize the low budget seriousness of the latter. Conversely,
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