the chairman of The Board, Charles Michel, defended on Thursday in the european Parliament the agreement reached at 27 on the recovery plan and the long-term budget of the EU, believing that it was " a signal of confidence, of strength and solidity ".

But the president of the european Commission, and Ursula von der Leyen, was then pointed out to the chamber that the cuts approved in the european budget to reach this agreement was a " hard pill to swallow ".