EU leaders managed to agree upon a plan to inject billions of euros of emergency aid into Europe’s damaged economies during a virtual meeting on Thursday afternoon. The recovery fund will be closely tied to the bloc’s seven-year budget. They...
The Financial Times said that under Christine Lagarde’s leadership, the European Central Bank (ECB) is the only EU institution that can ‘save the eurozone’ in the midst of the economic impact that the coronavirus is having on Europe’s economy. This...
EU leaders are bracing themselves for another tough week as the coronavirus continues to take its toll on Europe’s health and economy. On Monday, Italy’s borrowing costs rose again as investors anxiously await a crucial EU meeting on Thursday where...
If anyone in Italy were asked where the nightmare began, no one would have difficulty in indicating a town, Codogno, and a date, 21st February. In fact, when we caught a glimpse of the first flames and started shouting “Fire!”...
It is difficult to predict what long-term impact the coronavirus will have on global politics, but it is unlikely that this pandemic is going to stem the rise of populism. Ivan Krastev of the New Statesman wrote that it would...
We have been into an intensive care hospital in Lombardy, the mostly hit region by COVID-19 in Italy. Here doctors are fighting every day to save lives. Read the full report here
Nine Russian military planes landed in Italy on March 22 in an aid operation to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. From Russia With Love “From Russia with Love” — as coined by Moscow —the Ilyushin Il-76 transport planes carried medics,...
The coronavirus is changing our world radically. It has changed the day to day lives of hundreds of millions of people but it is also changing – perhaps in a less visible manner – international relations as well, and has...
The doctors in the intensive care department are at the point of exhaustion: “Here there are just desperate cases, we pray that a patient or two will wake up”. They are there behind that glass. The shapes are human but...
Covid-19 in Italy: medical staff from the hospitals of Bergamo, Brescia, Rome
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