EU finance ministers agree to half a trillion euro package to cushion coronavirus crisis impact
BRUSSELS—European finance ministers worked through deep differences to agree to a package of measures late Thursday totaling half a trillion euros aimed at blunting the impact of the coronavirus on the region’s fragile economy, officials said. But a bigger conflict over whether to share the costs of the health crisis was deferred.
The agreement provided a moment of unity in what has been a bruising fight among European Union members over the response to the crisis, which has slammed some countries still recovering from the...
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