DECRYPTION – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is hosting the summit of the Twenty-Seven in Budapest, promises to “ Make Europe Great Again », inspired by the slogan of his American “friend” Donald Trump.
Will the election of Donald Trump be the shock that Europeans have been waiting for to reverse the decline of their economy compared to the United States? This is the challenge to which the twenty-seven heads of state and government were called upon to respond, during an informal summit on the competitiveness of the continent, in Budapest, on Friday. By publishing a report of nearly 400 pages on the subject in September, the former president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi, nicknamed « the savior of the euro »promised them a “slow agony” if they did not act now.
“The recommendations in this report were already urgent given our economic situation ; the sense of urgency is greater today than a week ago »declared the former Italian prime minister upon his arrival in the Hungarian capital, three days after the American election. Donald Trump considers Europe as a « mini-Chine »Who…
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