EU leaders in bitter clash over Covid-19 recovery package
Orban accuses Netherlands' Rutte of communist' tactics on tense third day of talks
Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, accused his Dutch counterpart of using the same methods as his country's former communist leaders on Sunday, as EU leaders publicly clashed during tense and acrimonious negotiations over the terms of a proposed 1.8tn budget and recovery package for the bloc.
A third difficult day of a summit of the EU's 27 heads of state and government - the first in person for five months - saw movement towards agreement as talks stretched deep into the night, but laid bare the deep splits between north and south, and east and west.
What are EU leaders arguing about?
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Epidemics of infectious diseases behave in different ways but the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people is regarded as a key example of a pandemic that occurred in multiple waves, with the latter more severe than the first. It has been replicated - albeit more mildly - in subsequent flu pandemics.
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