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Spain and EU commissioners call for common European debt instruments, newspaper reports

Europe needs debt mutualization and a common "Marshall Plan" to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, even as Germany dismissed calls for the debt-pooling idea.

A chance to tell the euro story in full

Maybe the dial in his mind was still switched to the rigors of the Dutch elections, or possibly his focus was on former colleagues who might now want to challenge him for his post as Eurogroup president. Whatever the case, Jeroen Dijsselbloem exposed one of the ugliest and most damaging sides of the discussion about the eurozone since the crisis broke out.

Useful idiots

It was during the Soviet Union's heyday that Joseph Stalin introduced the political term "useful idiot" to describe that category of citizens who embraced and upheld Moscovite policy with innocent intentions.

Train Crash in Germany Leaves at Least Several Dead

The collision of two trains in the area of Munich in Bavaria, Germany has killed at least eight people, German police say.

"Dozens" of others are injured, German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung quotes officials as saying.

Reportedly, one of the trains was derailed and a "head-on" collision followed. The reason for the incident has not yet been established.

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