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Media links Covid fight and exit from Europe as the UK adopts jobs support scheme similar to kurzarbeitCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn Thursday, the UK followed in the footsteps of the German government by adopting a Jobs Support Scheme. The announcement comes as German commentators have spoken of their confusion at the zig-zag approach to tackling the coronavirus, describing a nation...

EU agrees to look for early common ground as PM asks it to ‘put a tiger in the tank’ of talks Boris Johnson has said there is no reason why the outline of a Brexit deal cannot be sealed by the end of July, after he asked EU leaders at a video summit to “put a tiger in the tank” of stalled talks.In a...

Buoyed by fire sales of public assets, a tiny minority of Greeks are thriving. Everyone else is mired in hopelessnessSpring is already in the air across Greece. Even in the bleakest of times, nature’s renaissance renders hope irrepressible. But this one is proving a cruel spring for a people caught up in a decade-old crisis yielding one ritual humiliation after another.Costas runs a small...