European Union survival at stake – Spanish PM

The European Union’s very survival is at stake and a new ‘Marshall Plan for Europe is needed’ to rebuild the continent’s economies, Spain’s prime minister writes in article published today by the Guardian.

Europe must build a wartime economy and promote European resistance, reconstruction and recovery, Pedro Sánchez says.

It must start doing so as soon as possible with measures to support the public debt that many states, including Spain, are taking on.

And it must continue to do so when this health emergency is over, to rebuild the continent’s economies by mobilising significant resources through a plan we are calling the new Marshall Plan and which will require the backing of all of the EU’s common institutions.

A critical juncture had been reached at which even the most fervently pro-European countries and governments, as is Spain’s case, needed real proof of commitment in the form of “unwavering solidarity”.

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