Meeting in an ‘enlarged Eurogroup’ format on Thursday 9 April, European Finance Ministers agreed on a package of measures valued at €500 billion to complete the anti-crisis arsenal already agreed for dealing with the current COVID-19 pandemic and the future socio-economic crisis (see EUROPE B12464A4).
The second attempt at this therefore turned out to be the charm and was much quicker, thanks to a prior agreement between the key actors. This package of four measures—which are on...