The French Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire, called on his European counterparts, on Thursday 2 April, to grasp the importance of the COVID-19 pandemic for the European structure and to use the current crisis as an opportunity to demonstrate that Europe is capable of acting in accordance with its fundamental values.
“If Europe regains its political roots” - solidarity, security, human dignity - in the face of disease, “it will become stronger, or Europe gives in to panic and national...