Correspondent in Brussels
Economic issues were not on the menu of the video conference of the Twenty-Seven devoted, Thursday evening, to the Covid-19.
The leaders had to stick to “testing-tracing”, vaccines and, of course, restrictive measures imposed in their respective countries.
But, Emmanuel Macron went into the field of the financial response to the second wave of the pandemic, essentially asking the question of the relevance of the EU stimulus plan built at the time of the first wave.
"He estimated that a reflection is to be carried out quickly on an additional economic response to face the new wave of the epidemic
", confides a European source.
"
Some have asked for more flexibility in the recovery plan, that is to say to be able to use the money to finance new emergency measures
," said another, speaking of an initiative by the French president.
"Emmanuel Macron mentioned an adaptation of the recovery plan
,
"
confirms a third.
Difficult
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