Hello dear subscribers,
Hope you had a sweet night. If this is not the case, rest assured by thinking of that of our European leaders, they spent it arguing and discussing to try to reach an agreement on the recovery plan. The person responsible for their insomnia is Mark Rutte, at the head of the so-called “frugal” countries. After four days of negotiations, the Dutch Prime Minister has achieved two things: wrest concessions from the fiercest supporters of the plan, and be hated by France, Germany, and all the southern EU countries. . Hopefully he will give them coffee and croissants this morning.
Have a nice day,
Ronan Planchon, journalist at Le Figaro
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The Macron-Merkel tandem stumbles on the intransigence of the "frugal"
The representatives of the "frugal" countries, the Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, and his Austrian counterparts, Sebastian Kurz, Finnish, Sanna Marin, Danish, Mette Frederiksen and Swedish, Stefan Löfven (from left to right), at a meeting , Sunday in Brussels. POOL / REUTERS
If he had any hair left, Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, would have pulled it out. It took a four day and four night marathon summit for the Twenty-Seven to reach an agreement,
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