On Wednesday, EU finance ministers had been up all night, yet failed to reach agreement on a financial rescue package for Europe.
The same day Mauro Ferrari, the President of the European Research Council, the EU's most august and well-founded research body, issued a blistering resignation letter attacking the EU’s overall response to the coronavirus crisis. "I have been extremely disappointed by the European response," he wrote to the Financial Times, "for what pertains to the complete absence of coordination of health care policies among member states, the recurrent opposition to cohesive financial support initiatives, the pervasive one-sided border closures, and the marginal scale of synergistic scientific initiatives." At a stroke,