The European Union's 27 member states emerged from an intense four-day and four-night summit branding a huge virus recovery plan and a trillion-euro long-term budget.
Here are five key points about what German Chancellor Angela Merkel called an impressive response to a historic recession and the worst crisis in the European Union's history. Joint debt The €750 billion coronavirus rescue is a package of loans and - more controversially - grants, to help hard-hit countries through the recession triggered by the epidemic.
The sum will be borrowed on the markets by the EU executive, the European Commission, and is thus based on the biggest ever issuance of joint European debt.