Coronavirus in Europe: the Twenty-Seven deadlock over "coronabonds"

It was to be a demonstration of unity and solidarity as European citizens see the number of deaths and infected people on the Old Continent increase. But, Thursday evening, the Twenty-Seven were not there. Their videoconference devoted to the coronavirus crisis will only have contributed to highlighting the divergences observed in recent days on the question of economic and financial support when all the European economies are at a standstill.

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It is as if both had started to replay the film of the financial crisis of 2010 or, that of the stormy and vain negotiations around the European budget, at the end of February in Brussels, during their last meeting in the flesh. The North against the South. The frugal against the expensive. And the words that go with it. The Portuguese Antonio Costa thus described as “repugnant” the attitude of the Dutch.

At least there were ultimately conclusions, allowing the Twenty-Seven

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