• Council: The summit of the summits begins and these are the 10 blocks of European discord

The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, today warned that all European leaders are "obliged" to reach an agreement in the European Council that begins this Friday and that they have to decide on the recovery fund after the coronavirus and the budget multi-year.

Upon arrival at this summit Sánchez has indicated that the approved fund should serve to transform the economies of the EU and make them "much more resilient, green, digital and inclusive".

For her part, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has also indicated that she hopes that the negotiations on the European reconstruction fund and the medium-term financial plans will be "very difficult" since the divergences between the various positions "remain very large. "

"We come to the negotiations with a lot of momentum, but I must say that the differences are still very large and I cannot predict if this time we will have a result," said the foreign minister upon arrival at the Council.

Commitment ability

"It takes a lot of commitment on the part of everyone to achieve something that is good for Europe and for the people of Europe, in view of the pandemic, and to respond to the economic difficulties we are facing," said Merkel.

For the French president, Emmanuel Macron, "the European project is at stake for many" at the summit. The Gallic leader stressed that the crisis caused by the coronavirus "requires much more solidarity and ambition."

"It is a moment of truth and ambition for Europe. We are experiencing an unprecedented crisis in health, but also economic and social, which requires much more solidarity and ambition," he said in statements in Brussels and collected by French media.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte also spoke on arrival at the council , who said he is not optimistic about the possibility of reaching an agreement this weekend at the summit.

"Content is ultimately more important than speed, a weak compromise does not move Europe forward," he warned upon his arrival in Brussels in statements to the media, before meeting with the 27 European leaders who will negotiate today a fund of 750,000. million euros to support the recovery of the economies most affected by the pandemic.

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