The Carrefour de l'Europe Press Club
A café terrace in Brussels, May 9, 2021. Second day of the reopening of the terraces in Belgium.
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By: Daniel Desesquelle
2 min
All over Europe, the terraces are reopening and with spring, Europeans are gradually finding their smile again.
In some countries such as France, the bet is daring because the virus is still very virulent but the vaccination rate, which is increasing day by day, allows renewed optimism.
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From now on, we vaccinate proportionally more within the European Union than in the United States or Great Britain.
The anemic economy is picking up again and the European recovery plan, still blocked by some countries, should give the necessary boost for a more sustained recovery.
It is not yet the world before but already, no longer really the time of strict confinement.
On May 9, 2021, the feast of Europe, was solemnly launched, from the Parliament of Strasbourg, the Conference for the Future of Europe.
But, we do not necessarily see the future in the same way when we are in the North, South, East or West of Europe.
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With:
- Joël Le Pavous / The Evening / The Time in Budapest
- Paolo Levi / Italian News Agency ANSA in Rome
- Sasha Mitchell / Courrier International
- Héléna Petaïsto / MTV in Helsinki
- Pascal Thibaut / RFI in Berlin.
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