Make or break: what the coronavirus means for the European Union

A lack of solidarity among member states puts EU in ‘mortal danger’

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Italian police block access to the coronavirus-hit Schiavonia hospital in Monselice, near Venice
(Image credit: Marco Sabadina/AFP via Getty Images)

The coronavirus pandemic presents an existential threat to the European Union, experts have warned.

Jacques Delors, the former European Commission president, has said the lack of solidarity among the 27 member states posed “a mortal danger to the European Union”.

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