Correspondent in Brussels
The agreement on the European recovery plan is " historic " and Emmanuel Macron had to convince the French who are worried about the crisis and those who fear new prerogatives given to Brussels. " It is not the French taxpayers who will pay this debt " of the recovery plan, promised the president. " This is the most important moment in the life of our Europe since the creation of the euro», He insisted.
Returning from Brussels on Tuesday morning, the president was the same evening the guest of the TF1 JT to defend the decision of the Twenty-Seven. The recovery plan is indeed revolutionary in the sense that it corresponds to a change of paradigm. For the first time, a common loan will be taken out. Which, beyond its pharaminous amount of 750 billion euros, amounts to breaking a taboo and binding Europeans a little more in a common future. These sums will allow transfers between Member States for more solidarity.
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