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Now playing Next world news Coronavirus: how much is the world economy expected to shrink? The world economy is expected to suffer triple the damage it sustained after the 2008 financial crisis, and then struggle to regain traction. 20/05/2020
Now playing Next Europe News Analysis: Is the €500bn recovery fund plan Europe's 'Hamilton Moment'? Euronews' political editor Darren McCaffrey on France and Germany's plan for financing the EU's recovery from COVID-19. 19/05/2020
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Now playing Next Europe News Coronavirus: EU Commission VP warns against 'mini-Schengens' Margaritis Schinas' comments come after Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania opened their internal borders to each other last week in a bid to give their economies a timely boost. 19/05/2020
Now playing Next France French president Emmanuel Macron loses absolute majority in parliament Seven MPs from his LREM party defected to create a new parliamentary group they said would be "independent" and sit "neither in the majority nor in the opposition". 19/05/2020
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Now playing Next world news Analysis: Should children go back to school during a pandemic? Today, Belgium joins Denmark and many others in reopening primary and secondary schools. But, in other countries, rows are raging over getting pupils back into the classroom. 18/05/2020
Now playing Next world news Macron and Merkel back EU bond to raise €500bn for Europe's recovery Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has already indicated that his position and that of several member states collectively known as the Frugal Four "remains unchanged", signalling that the proposal will face strong resistance. 18/05/2020
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