For Clément Beaune, Secretary of State for European Affairs, Europe has come a long way since the adoption, a year ago, of a Union-wide recovery plan.
He refutes the idea that the Old Continent is stalling from the United States, but insists on the projects to be carried out, today and in the perspective of the French presidency of the EU in the first half of 2022.
LE FIGARO.
- The European recovery plan
was approved on July 21, 2020
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Why do you think this anniversary is important?
Clement BEAUNE.
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This agreement represents a major breakthrough.
The European Union had not taken such a step since the creation of the euro.
The amount - 750 billion euros - is considerable.
Taboos have fallen: the principle of a common debt has been accepted.
It happened in just two months.
The psychological, political and economic signal is clear: faced with a major crisis, even in the context of a decision unanimously required, Europe
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