Management of vaccination in dispersed order, dissonant partitions on the closing of borders: Europe seems to be caught up by its old demons of division and inefficiency.
And yet, if we look in the rearview mirror this past year of unprecedented health and economic crisis, the European construction has taken steps, which its hottest supporters qualify as giant.
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The essential progress
, judge Grégory Claeys, of the Bruegel think tank,
is this recovery plan financed by common debt
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In July, led by the Franco-German tandem, the heads of state adopted the aid plan of 750 billion euros financed by European debt.
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A taboo has been broken
", summarizes the European expert.
During the 2011-2012 crisis, known as the sovereign debt crisis, the idea of eurobonds, a debt pooled at community level, encountered frank hostility from Germany and the countries of the North.
The context this time is different.
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