As usual, Angela Merkel backs up against the controversy. The media storm hits Germany, accused of selfishness in the health and financial crisis that risks sweeping Italy. And the chancellor, placed in quarantine since she came into contact with a contaminated doctor, does not respond. Spoken in a short audio message on Wednesday, his last words were reserved for his fellow citizens who were to stay at home until April 19. Ten days ago, when announcing the first restrictive measures in the country, she had not mentioned Europe once.
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Berlin doesn't want to hear about coronabonds, but Angela Merkel puts it in her own way: " We said, on the German side ... that this was not the conception of all the member states ", to issue these European loans, she said at the last virtual European Council on March 26. Already in 2012, addressing its coalition allies of the liberal FDP party,
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