Italy and Spain feel abandoned, as the crisis really brings into question what the EU is all about.
Footage of EU flag-burning is doing the rounds on Italian social media.
On Thursday, he tweeted:"We have to re-examine Europe and Italy's role in it. It has not come to our aid at all."The European Commission has proposed a programme to protect jobs and workers affected by Covid-19 to the tune of €100bn . Instead, Berlin favours dipping into the European Stability Mechanism - a bailout fund created after the 2008 financial crisis.Italy complains that means it would be punished for suffering economically - not as a result of reckless government spending, but because of a deadly virus.
So, what of the European Commission? Can't it bang heads together; force EU governments to co-operate?Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen keeps repeating that"the only effective solution to the crisis in Europe is one based on co-operation, flexibility and, above all, solidarity".The EU's open-border Schengen agreement is temporarily in tatters, with travel restrictions in place between Germany and Austria, Belgium and France, France and Italy and so on.
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