BRUSSELS – European governments remained at loggerheads Wednesday over measures to help the economy weather the coronavirus outbreak, breaking off a meeting of finance officials who clashed over aid conditions and a proposal to borrow together to pay for the health crisis.
Finance ministers from the 19 countries that use the euro haggled into the night for 16 hours by videoconference starting Tuesday.
The meeting ended without a deal is to resume Thursday. European governments are scrambling to put together hundreds of billions of euros to save lives as well as companies and families from going bankrupt.
Many countries hit hardest by the virus are also those that can least afford the costs, like Italy and Spain. But they are divided over