Europeans have lost none of their “good” old habits. While some people were adamant that in the era of the coronavirus, meetings by videoconference could not drag on because it was very difficult to have real discussions, the leaders of the Union retained all their endurance. This is even more true when it comes to big money. The finance ministers thus managed to last sixteen long hours. Their meeting started on Tuesday at 4 p.m. It ended on Wednesday just before 8 a.m. A marathon during which some people still dived. " At 6 am, Klaus Regling (the boss of the MES, European Stability Mechanism, editor's note) was sleeping in front of his screen, " said a source close to the negotiations. " I saw several others dozing. They are humans, after all, ”adds another.
The finance ministers had maximum pressure. They had to succeed where European leaders had
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