Correspondent in Brussels
The coronavirus spreads like wildfire. The world is in dire straits. But Europeans plunge back into their chicanery without worrying about the spectacle they offer to the citizens of the Old Continent. The coronavirus crisis could prove to be much more devastating than those of the debt in 2010 and of the migrants in 2015. The risks are such that Jacques Delors has chosen to break his silence. "The climate which seems to reign between the heads of state and government and the lack of European solidarity pose a mortal danger to the European Union ", warned on Saturday the former president of the European Commission, reacting to the passing of arms between the Twenty-Seven on the "coronabonds". The countries of the South (Italy and Spain at the head), hard hit, would like to see the EU launch European loans to support the economies. The Netherlands, Germany, Finland and Austria refuse to do so. Hence the alarm cry of Emmanuel Macron in the press
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