Coronavirus could be final straw for EU, European experts warn

Leaders are warned that if division prevails, pandemic will be more destructive than Brexit, migration and bailout crises

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The European Union has weathered the storms of eurozone bailouts, the migration crisis and Brexit, but some fear coronavirus could be even more destructive.

In a rare intervention Jacques Delors, the former European commission president who helped build the modern EU, broke his silence last weekend to warn that lack of solidarity posed "a mortal danger to the European Union".