The "battle of masks" between Brussels, Rome, Berlin and Paris will remain a symbol of the failure of European solidarity towards its most wounded member.
Has Europe already lost Italy?After 2008 and the migrant crisis, the nightmare of COVID-19, which brought Lombardy to its knees before spreading to the rest of the country, is a new trauma that binds the Italian national community together, while at the same time distancing it from a Europe that is conspicuous by its absence. The "battle of masks" between Brussels, Rome, Berlin and Paris will remain a symbol of the failure of European solidarity towards its most wounded member. On March 6th, two days after France and Germany decided to block all exports of protective equipment, the Italian Health Minister's call to his European colleagues in Brussels for an extraordinary meeting was met with a polite refusal.
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