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The European recovery fund advances. Austria and Poland, the last two countries to ratify it, approved it in their parliaments on Thursday. With the approval of the 27, the way is paved for the implementation of the European recovery plan of 750,000 million euros, as announced by the Budget Commissioner, Johannes Hahn. “All the remaining steps can be completed in May, which would allow us to start borrowing in the capital markets as early as June,” Hahn said in a tweet. The United States on Thursday called for the World Health Organization to conduct a second phase of its investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, with independent experts having full access to the original data and samples in China.
You can follow the intervention of Pedro Sánchez at the national fair for the repopulation of rural Spain:
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