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29 June 2020It is important that we end by the summer break ", says EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in an interview with the Handelsblatt, about the negotiation on the Recovery Fund. If in the face of the current differences at the half summit July will not reach an agreement, another will be needed: "either we can get to the first or we will need a second, however we have to work to the point that the package is started. We can't afford a summer break until then, "he says. 

We have rightly chosen that the recovery plan should include two thirds of grants and one third of loans. The economic package must make the European countries more resistant, and precisely the most indebted. "He continues" We cannot take on any country more and more debts and in an unlimited way, otherwise the increasing weight of rates runs the risk of suffocating them ", he adds "It is about promoting the well-being of Europe", he concludes. 

EU, economic sentiment continues to recover, Italy third
Meanwhile, economic sentiment is increasing in the Eurozone and in the EU (+8.2, +8.1): the ESI indicator records significant growth in France (+9.4), the Netherlands (+8.3), Spain and Italy (both +8.2). The indicator of employment expectations also improved markedly: +12.7 points in the Eurozone, and +11.9 in the EU-27.