European leaders struggled to agree on a concrete strategy to contain the fallout from a deadly coronavirus, leaving key details to be hammered out in the weeks ahead. With thousands of people falling ill and hundreds dying every day from the pandemic in the continent, the leaders spent much of Thursday arguing over whether a joint communique would hint at burden sharing as a recourse to repair the damage to their economies. Earlier this week, finance ministers deferred decisions to leaders, only for them to kick the can down the road again by tasking the finance ministers to come up with proposals within two weeks. ... (full story)