Hello everyone,
Ninety hours, four days, two nights of negotiations, and not even a record for the longest European summit in the key (within 34 minutes). While the negotiators no longer believed in "hope changed sides, the fight changed soul" (Victor Hugo): the Twenty-Seven threw their last forces into the battle and reached a deal. Today, European leaders are claiming victory, but they know that the hardest part is ahead of them - well, especially in front of their successors - sooner or later they will have to go to the cash register.
Happy reading and have a nice day,
Ronan Planchon, journalist at Le Figaro
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Europe: questions on a "historic agreement"
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Charles Michel, President of the European Council, after the adoption of the plan. POOL / REUTERS
Finally, they got there. Tuesday, at 5:31 am, the Twenty-Seven finally agreed on a European recovery plan size XXXXL: the common loan amounts to 750 billion euros, "historic" according to Emmanuel Macron and the deputy European Jean-Louis Bourlanges very happy that a compromise was found even
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