Elbow bumps and bows: masked EU leaders start physically distanced summit – video

The leaders of EU27 countries wore face masks as they greeted each other with elbow bumps, nods, bows and some variations at a summit to thrash out a deal on a multibillion coronavirus recovery fund for the bloc's economies.

There were birthday gifts for the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who turned 66, and the Portuguese prime minister, Antonio Costa, who turned 59