stops When it comes to money, friendship. Applying this truism to the European level, is to formulate the second half of the sentence so as to: then you look behind solidarity appeals and confessions, how good are also meant. So it’s no Surprise, with what tenacity, Yes grimness of the negotiations at the summit meeting of the EU led to have been. Under the impression of the Corona pandemic, it has not become less legitimate to ask, who Finance the building program, who control it, who should receive the funds and for what purpose. It is in the nature that conflicts of Interest arise, in part in Principled reasons. In the wedding, the European debt crisis, not unlike the summit at the time, no Abnickrunden goods.

Still, you cannot help but determine, depending on the position of recognizing or upset – that the so-called “Thrifty Four”, on whose side the Finnish government proposed, argued their position with great intransigence. That and the stubbornness of the governments of Hungary and Poland, the issue of resource allocation and the rule of law show how hard it is to find a reasonable Agreement on a broad basis.(Of course, insist on the Budapest and Warsaw on redistribution, as long as the is in your favor.) It is no longer enough, if Germany and France agree on a course; the expectation that the Partner would follow, is outdated. Leadership in the EU of Persuasion is always on.