Italy's Conte demands more 'courage' from EU to fight virus

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EU leaders failed to find a common response last week and gave their finance ministers until next Thursday to agree on something useful.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Friday extended his feud about coronavirus money with EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen in the pages of a newspaper.

Conte wants the whole bloc to share the risk by issuing billions of euros in so-called coronabonds, helping Italy to borrow more cheaply to fight a pandemic that has killed nearly 14,000 people and shattered the country's economy. "When fighting a war, you must do everything possible to win and equip yourself with all the tools needed for the reconstruction," Conte wrote.He said the bonds were"useful to finance the extraordinary efforts that Europe will have to put in place" and"are in no way aimed at sharing the debt that each of our countries has inherited from the past".

 

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