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How Europe mounted a united economic response to the pandemic
Ian Explains: How Europe Mounted a United Economic Response to the Pandemic | GZERO World
October 01, 2020
Ian Bremmer looks at how 27 nations in the European Union were able to put aside decades of inter-continental grievances and come together to aggressively and almost immediately respond to the economic toll wrought by the coronavirus. One person, in particular, played an outsize role in bringing about that unlikely outcome: Christine Lagarde.
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