'We've learnt nothing' from euro crisis, ex EC president Juncker says

In an interview with Politico's Brussels Playbook, former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has expressed his disappointment over the discord that emerged between euro zone countries in their attempts to come up with a joint response to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. 

"We've learnt nothing," Juncker said. "The way the Dutch finance minister expressed himself in the direction of Italy is again fueling the conflict between North and South," he said, referring Wopke Hoekstra last month reportedly calling on the European Union to probe why some countries didn't have the financial buffers to cope better with the economic shock. "Now we have let the North-South conflict flare up again without any need," Juncker said. 

Juncker declined to speculate on whether the size of the financial package agreed by EU finance ministers is adequate,...