He remains cautious about the delivery of tanks to Ukraine and rejects the principle of new European loans.
Correspondent in Brussels
Mark Rutte takes the lead, two weeks before a European Council devoted to immigration and the EU’s response to American subsidies. Traveling to Brussels on Tuesday for a lunch with his Belgian counterpart Alexander De Croo and a meeting with the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Dutch Prime Minister also took the time to see some journalists from the European press, including Le Figaro.
Objective: to make known the positions he will defend on February 9 and 10 during the meeting of the Twenty-Seven. First on immigration, a subject that was put on the agenda at his request, when, he underlines, “we kind of forgot about this problem” with the pandemic and that “we are now waking up regularly again with high numbers” of arrivals.
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