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Far apart: EU holds masked budget summit in pandemic times

by Associated Press
| July 17, 2020 3:03 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — Near the end of Friday's opening summit day, European Union leaders acknowledged they were about as far apart from reaching a deal on an unprecedented 1.85 trillion euro ($2.1 trillion) EU budget and virus recovery fund as the seating distance imposed upon them for health reasons.

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