FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron attends a virtual meeting with European leaders to discuss the bloc's budget and recovery fund, in Paris, France June 19, 2020. Eliot Blondet/Pool via REUTERS
PARIS (Reuters) - Emmanuel Macron will travel to the Netherlands on Tuesday to try to break Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's resistance to the European Union's 750 billion euro aid package that the French president wants to see approved at an EU summit in July.
Rutte has led a coalition of fiscally conservative northern European countries opposed to the proposed recovery fund, which would see the EU raise debt and transfer cash to the countries hardest hit by the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis.
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