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Angela Merkel has said that Brussels should now focus efforts on creating a European Health Union. The German Chancellor added the bombshell remark at the end of her speech alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. She told reporters that after six months of Germany having the EU presidency, she is convinced that Brussels should work on a Europe-wide health union.
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Europe rallies amid crises, but its divisions show all the more Ishaan Tharoor Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Brussels on Dec. 10. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Bloomberg News)
A two-day European Union summit started Thursday in Brussels with
. The bloc’s 27 leaders are expected to sign off on a mammoth $2.2 trillion package of funds and emergency pandemic aid that officials hope may define the continent’s political and economic evolution in the years to come. But that agreement was only possible after a standoff with two obstreperous nations Hungary and Poland which threatened to veto the funds over E.U. attempts to exercise oversight of their governments through a “rule of law” mechanism that would censure Warsaw and Budapest for years of democratic backsliding.