Economics

Euro Area Under Threat From Uneven Virus Shock, EU Warns

  • Weaker southern members hit harder by the economic fallout
  • Pressures building on political leaders and on the currency
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Barely a decade after the euro-area sovereign debt crisis threatened to blow up the currency zone, the pandemic has put Europe’s south back in the eye of the storm.