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Merkel warns coronavirus crisis ‘still just the beginning’

Loud Silence Staff by Loud Silence Staff
April 23, 2020
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Chancellor Merkel has been widely praised for her handling of the crisis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country must remain “clever and cautious” in handling the coronavirus crisis, as “it’s not the end phase but still just the beginning”.

“We will be with it for a long time,” she warned parliament, ahead of an EU video summit on the crisis.

She stressed the need for European cohesion in fighting the virus.

And she said Germany should be ready to “make very different, meaning much higher contributions to the EU budget”.

The extra funding should be provided “in a spirit of solidarity” and for a limited time, she said.

Italy, at the epicentre of the pandemic in Europe, has been especially vocal in urging its EU partners to jointly guarantee debt, as part of a huge rescue package.

But Germany, the Netherlands and Austria oppose any mutualisation of debt, in the form of so-called “coronabonds”. Under current EU rules countries cannot be made liable for each other’s debts.

On Thursday EU leaders are expected to sign off on a new €540bn (£470bn; $575bn) emergency fund to protect European workers, businesses and countries worst affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The details are yet to be worked out.

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Germany has brought the infection rate down considerably

Italy and some others want the emergency funds to go as high as €1.5 trillion. One plan is to expand the EU budget so that the European Commission can provide much bigger loan guarantees.

French President Emmanuel Macron has lined up with Italy and Spain on the issue, warning that this crisis threatens the very existence of the EU. Italy, Spain and France – in that order – have the highest European death tolls from Covid-19.

Many Italians feel abandoned by the EU

The old rifts from the eurozone crisis of 2009 – a supposedly frugal northern Europe versus a spendthrift south – have re-emerged with this outbreak.

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The view from Rome is that a shared crisis needs a shared solution. Facing fierce opposition mainly from Germany and the Netherlands, Italy may no longer be wedded to its idea of “coronabonds” – debt mutualisation – but is still pushing for a financial package that does not penalise any single economy. That, after all, is the spirit of the common market that Italy helped create.

Many Italians feel abandoned by an EU that has hoarded protective equipment and closed borders.

Polls show anti-EU feeling is at its highest ever here. The leader of the hard-right Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni, told me the EU had shown its inadequacy and distance from the solidarity its members craved, peddling the idea of Italy as a beggar, wasting its money.

“The EU exists thanks to Italy,” she said. “But it’s now a system that favours others.” Hers is the party steadily rising in the polls.

On Thursday German officials said coronavirus cases nationally had risen to 148,046, and the number of deaths linked to Covid-19 had risen by 215 to 5,094.

Mrs Merkel said “it’s the biggest challenge since World War Two, for the life and health of our people”.

She urged “maximum discipline”, to avoid stop-start lockdowns.

“We must not waste what has been achieved already,” she said, praising the efficiency of Germany’s healthcare system and the armed forces’ assistance in the national effort.

Her government’s decisions in this crisis “have no historical model”, she said.

“The question of how we can prevent the virus from overwhelming our health system and subsequently costing the lives of countless people, this question will for a long time be the central question for politics in Germany and Europe.”

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Media captionThe BBC’s Secunder Kermani and Anne Soy compare how prepared Asian and African countries are

Mrs Merkel said Europe must strengthen its capacity to produce specialised medical kit, instead of depending on global supplies, which are now very stretched.

She also called the World Health Organization an indispensable partner in the fight against the virus. President Donald Trump has suspended US funding of the body.

“I know how difficult the restrictions are, it’s a challenge to democracy, it limits our democratic rights,” she said, adding that democratic transparency, such as a free press, helped to make the situation tolerable.

“It’s amazing how much understanding people have shown for each other,” she said. MPs frequently applauded her.

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