One formality remained from the European Union amid the epidemic of coronavirus infection. The ostentatious solidarity has sunk into oblivion, and Italy was the first to feel this fact.
This was reported by The Financial Times.
Rome has already accused EU members of abandoning Italy, ignoring its calls for help. Austria has already closed its borders. Germany, in turn, deliberately blocks the supply of medical products to Italy.
“Italy needed help, and it was given a slap in the face”, – said Matteo Salvini, head of the League of the North Party.
However, the European Central Bank did not close the spreads between ten-year Italian and German government bonds. As a result, the difference in the fall of Italian securities increased by sixty points, and the Milan stock exchange fell by 17 percent.
As News Front previously reported, Italy has become the European epicenter of the coronavirus infection epidemic COVID-19. Now there are 15 thousand infected. Thus, in just a day, this figure increased by more than 2 thousand. The total number of deaths according to the results of the past day amounted to about 1.3 thousand. The number of those recovered is more than 1.4 thousand.