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In the headlines of the European press this morning, the inability of the EU heads of state and government to agree on the post-Covid recovery plan, after three days of discussions.

The Financial Times speaks of a “marathon” which exposes the “deep differences” between the European partners, between the so-called “frugal” countries, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, and the others, of which are those who most need European funds to revive their economy. Among them, Italy, which demands at least 70 billion euros, according to La Repubblica - which evokes a Europe "lacerated", an "extremely tough confrontation" between each other - but also "hopes That an agreement can finally be reached. Without an agreement, the whole European Union is likely to find itself "paralyzed", ABC recalls. On the front page of the Spanish daily this morning, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz shows his complicity with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte - who has become the leader of the countries which say they expect more "accounting rigor" from the EU .

For Liberation , this displayed "frugality" would rather be put on the account of greed: "The stingy are the resistance," pings the newspaper. According to Libé, by battling against the recovery plan, defended in particular by France and Germany, his slayers are making solidarity between states "the new dividing line within the EU", at at a time when the risk of a real second epidemic wave would however require "even more solidarity" between Europeans. "To make matters worse," L'Opinion notes , "central Europe is playing its part, with Poland and Hungary who flatly refuse to accept the condition that European funds be allocated to the rule of law." An attitude that further complicates a situation for which the newspaper also attributes responsibility to Paris and Berlin, which could not have countered "a rhetoric based on an irrational cost-expenditure calculation that does not take into account the advantage of belonging to the common market ".

In France, the fire on Saturday of the cathedral of Nantes, fifteen months after the one that ravaged Notre-Dame de Paris, revived the debate on the safety of cathedrals. The Cross recalls the complexity of the subject, "because of the dual cultural and cult vocation" of cathedrals - which the State owns and whose dioceses are the managers. "Who has the keys, literally and figuratively?" Calls the newspaper - worried that "by blurring and diluting responsibilities, we run the risk of collective neglect". Questioned by Liberation , the president of the Sites et Monuments association compared the fire at Nantes cathedral with that of Notre-Dame de Paris, accusing the state of having learned "no lesson" and of continuing to act "Through neglect and ignorance of an exceptional heritage". A problem to which is now added the difficulty of financing the renovation of the Nantes cathedral. Le Figaro evokes a site "of several tens of millions of euros", which will require "several years of work", in a context of "lack of resources from the Ministry of Culture".

Le Figaro , always, finally tells the great adventure of a young Greek student, who found himself trapped in Scotland, after failing to fly to get home, at the end of March. Never mind. The young man decided to take his bike to return to Greece. He left on May 10, and without being, it seems, a great cyclist, Kleon, that's his name, managed to cover 3,500 kilometers in 48 days. The newspaper does not specify how he managed to cross supposedly closed borders, but the young cyclist says to have learned "a lot of things about (himself), about (his) limits, (his) strengths and (his) weaknesses "

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