European Union leaders are preparing to thrash out a massive recovery plan to help resuscitate their coronavirus-ravaged economies as some citizens start heading cautiously back to work.
FILE - in this Wednesday, April 22, 2020 file photo, a man with a face mask and a child with an European flag attend an event of the Pulse of Europe movement to collect signatures for more support for Italy during the coronavirus and the COVID-19 outbreak in front of the Italian embassy in Berlin, Germany.
The summit — their fourth video-conference since the outbreak struck northern Italy two months ago — comes at an extremely delicate time, with more than 100,000 Europeans known to have died, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The aim is to have that so-called “safety net” to help pay lost wages, keep companies afloat and fund health care systems in place by June 1.
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