#MustRead article in the Guardian about #Rutte and co., and their refusal to have solidarity with their fellow EU-members.

David Adler, Jerome Roos / The Guardian: *If coronavirus sinks the eurozone, the 'frugal four' will be to blame*

"The Dutch-led opposition to a ‘coronabond’ to raise funds for nations hardest-hit by the pandemic is self-defeating"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/mar/31/solidarity-members-eurozone-coronavirus-dutch-coronabond

"Last Thursday, the leaders of the European Union convened a video conference to deliberate the escalating Covid-19 crisis. On the agenda was a simple proposal co-signed by nine different eurozone governments: the “coronabond”, a new type of public debt instrument backed by all the members of the currency union as they come together to combat the virus.

After a long decade of crisis fighting in the eurozone – pitting north against south, creditor against borrower – the proposal marked a …"

#Coronabond #Germany #Merkel #Netherlands #Austria #Finland #Italy #France #Spain #Eu #EuroeanUnion #Eurozone #Coronacrisis #Coronavirus #Covid19 #Solidarity