EU leaders clash over trillion-euro Covid-19 aid in online meeting
by Jennifer Rankin in Brussels from on (#52J5T)
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European Union leaders have clashed over how to rescue their economies from an economic slump caused by the coronavirus pandemic and forecast to be unparalleled since the 1930s Great Depression.
Meeting via video-conference summit, as the confirmed Covid-19 death toll passed 108,000 lives across the European Economic Area and UK, the 27 leaders instructed the head of the EU executive, Ursula von der Leyen, to draft a recovery plan.
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