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Newsday: 09/04/2020 06:06 GMT: Covid-19 disease forces France and Germany into recession

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09/04/2020 06:06 GMT

09/04/2020 06:06 GMT: Covid-19 disease forces France and Germany into recession

Covid-19 disease forces France and Germany into recession

BBC World Service - Newsday, Covid-19 disease forces France and Germany into recession

The Italian Prime Minister tells the BBC that Europe must rise to the Covid-19 challenge

The Italian Prime Minister tells the BBC that Europe must rise to the Covid-19 challenge.

Italy's prime minister has warned that the European Union risks failing as a project unless it moves to help the countries worst hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

Despite a comparatively small population in relation to other EU countries we ask why has Belgium been hit so hard when it comes to Covid-19 fatalities?

And a number of African poets living under lockdown, have recorded themselves reading excerpts from a poem by the famous Nigerian poet, Christopher Okigbo.

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