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Macron steps up as Merkel cowers. French jets buzz Turkish ships in East Med (Video)

Via Ekathimerini (https://www.ekathimerini.com/255905/article/ekathimerini/news/during-eu-teleconference-greece-and-germany-disagree-on-turkey-stance)…
During an EU teleconference of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on Friday, Greece and Germany disagreed on the content of the statement officials had planned to issue after the talks, according to diplomatic sources.

EU leaders agree to debt mutualization with digital & green taxes (Video)

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the EU’s coronavirus recovery fund, where EU leaders agreed to a historic slush fund for the bloc, doling out €750 billion in grants and loans.
The EU has taken to itself the legislative and executive powers found in a national government, as well as spending powers.

German Government Bails Out Owners of German Corporations

Eric Zuesse
Just as the corrupt U.S. Government is bailing out owners of U.S. corporations while the American public experiences a recession that is heading into a depression, the corrupt German Government likewise is bailing out investors. It’s not illegal for the Government to do that — not even when the corporation that they might bail out next is the nation’s flag-carrying airline, which already receives unfair advantages in competing against other airlines in that country.

Merkel Survives the Coronapocalypse, but the EU Won’t

No matter how hard I try to dig German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political grave she proves more adept at staying alive than a cockroach in a woodpile. And the recent fight amongst European Union members over “Coronabonds” has proven yet another escape path for her to avoid political termination.
Thanks to Merkel holding the line on debt mutualization and EU fiscal integration, which is very unpopular in Germany, her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is now polling at levels it hasn’t enjoyed since before the last general election in 2017.

Eurobonds or Bust? That’s the Next Phase of the EU

Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog:
We’ve reached the next stage of the EU’s evolution, whether it will adopt a common bond market or not. It’s been clear for a long time that something had to change if the European Union was to survive its political transformation.
And that issue is the formation of a shared debt structure underpinning the euro, commonly referred to as Eurobonds.