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With business vaporizing, Europe focuses on avoiding layoffs

| April 3, 2020 12:09 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — As the new coronavirus spreads across Europe, ravaging economies and killing thousands, governments and the European Union are focusing much of their economic rescue efforts on containing a boom in joblessness, particularly by helping companies not fire workers.

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