EU calls on Poland, Hungary to support economic recovery

EU leaders said Thursday they would intensify efforts to convince Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki to drop their veto of the EU coronavirus economic recovery plan, which has plunged the bloc into a new crisis threatening joint efforts to fight the epidemic. EU TACKLES PANDEMIC. European Council President Charles Michel (on the screen) speaks during a press conference following a video conference meeting with members of the European Council on the EU response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brussels on November 19, 2020. The bloc’s 27 heads of state and government spent fewer than 15 minutes on the issue at the start of a video summit, with German...