LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa urged European leaders on Wednesday for a joint debt issuance worth up to 1.6 trillion euros ($1.73 trillion) to support the recovery of the bloc’s coronavirus-battered economies.
“It is essential that a strong and clear response comes out of the European Council,” Costa told parliament ahead of the European Council’s special meeting on Thursday.
(Reporting by Catarina Demony and Sergio Goncalves, Editing by Andrei Khalip)
