As European diplomats haggled over the threatened Polish and Hungarian vetoes that could block the Covid bailout plan so laboriously negotiated earlier in the year, Portugal’s Socialist Prime Minister António Costa took the occasion to propose a plan to shrink and simplify the European Union.
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A German flag and an European Union flag are seen at the German Interior Minister's conference about the planned dismantling of border controls into place during the novel Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, in Berlin, on June 10, 2020.
