Europe Returns to Lockdowns With No Guarantee They’ll Work – Yahoo Finance Australia

(Bloomberg) — A virtual summit of European Union leaders has morphed into a crisis meeting after its two biggest economies imposed the kind of harsh restrictions many had sworn not to do. Its a moment of reckoning with a virus that in its second incarnation caught the bloc on the back foot.
On a video conference on Thursday, there will be the inevitable sense that leaders were wrong to think the worst was behind them and that the pandemic could be contained with targeted measures. Every day brings…

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