Correspondent in Brussels
"This path can take a few hours, a few days and a few nights." When he arrives Thursday afternoon at the European Council to participate in the extraordinary summit devoted to the next EU budget, Emmanuel Macron knows that negotiations are likely to be long. Moreover, the president, who calls for an " ambitious agreement ", says he is ready to take " the time it takes " to achieve his ends.
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He is far from alone in this case. Each of the Twenty-Seven must show that they are hardly impressed by the looming war of attrition. At these games, the Dutchman Mark Rutte, leader of the four "frugal" countries, is not asked. " I bought a little apple to spend the night. And the biography of Frédéric Chopin. I will read a little. What else to do? Explains the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. " Our positions are known and I do not see what there is to negotiate ", he adds most calmly of the world, with reference to this limit of
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