Wopke Hoekstra, the Dutch Finance minister, leader of the rigorists, did not yield an inch in the course of the sixteen hours of negotiations of the Eurogroup. A challenging discussion through video conferencing interspersed with calls to the bilateral, which resulted in a failure in the morning : the Eurogroup could not agree on a document to develop the tracks of the economic recovery, proposed to the heads of State and government. Sixteen hours of battle to… a press release. The 27 Finance ministers of the european Union were expected to resume the dialogue on Thursday.

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