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Mark Rutte takes the lead, two weeks before a European Council devoted to immigration and the EU's response to American subsidies.
Traveling to Brussels on Tuesday for a lunch with his Belgian counterpart Alexander De Croo and a meeting with the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Dutch Prime Minister also took the time to see some journalists from the European press, including
Le Figaro
.
Objective: to make known the positions he will defend on February 9 and 10 during the meeting of the Twenty-Seven.
First on immigration, a subject that was put on the agenda at his request, when, he underlines,
"we have somewhat forgotten this problem"
with the pandemic and that
"we now wake up regularly again with high numbers'
of arrivals.
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