Can EU get a grip on coronavirus?

Coronavirus wrangling highlights EU's fault lines

Italian Twitter was littered with expletives on Thursday - and those were just the posts from politicians.

And secondly, when it comes to economics, when wealthier countries like the Netherlands and Germany hear the words"debt-sharing" or"solidarity", what they worry that their voters will understand by that is -"richer EU countries in northern Europe have to foot the bill for poorer ones in the south".

"Austria, France and Germany have all sent protective masks to Italy. Germany has taken in Covid-19 patients from Italy and neighbouring France. That is very clear solidarity."German hospitals like this one in Dresden are treating patients from Italy and France On the economic side, EU leaders agreed to allow governments the freedom to prop up businesses in trouble because of the coronavirus - throwing normally strict EU state aid rules out of the window.

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