“The trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback” : this proverb Dutch fond Mark Rutte has served as a compass in the intricacies of the negotiations of the european recovery plan. Because, in Brussels, the trust has reached them only belatedly, in small steps, in who is limping. And the leader of the so-called “ frugal (hers, Denmark, Sweden and Austria) has many threatened to overthrow the table of the negotiations. His credo : no blank cheque for countries in the south of Europe and a distrust, equally large vis-à-vis Poland and Hungary in respect to the State…

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