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The Federal Minister of Finance commented:
The coronavirus pandemic presents Europe with an unprecedented challenge. We are facing the worst recession since the Second World War, climate protection remains an enormous task, and digitization offers great opportunities. At the same time, the political and economic landscape is changing. That is why we must now do everything we can to emerge from the crisis with full force.
The agenda of the virtual ECOFIN meeting included the Presidency programme and an exchange about the current situation of the European economy with regard to the coronavirus pandemic and the recovery and reconstruction measures that have been introduced.
The convergence reports of the European Commission and the European Central Bank and the final report of the High-Level Forum on the European Capital Markets Union were also discussed.
“We had a good and constructive ECOFIN meeting. There were a great many issues we had to discuss with each other,” said Federal Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz at the conclusion of the meeting, underscoring participants' unity on those essential issues relating to the EU's common future.