The Netherlands tried Friday to calm outrage in southern Europe over its stance on the economic response to the coronavirus after a Dutch minister's comments were branded "repugnant" by Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa.
In an unusually blunt rebuke to a fellow European Union member, Costa lashed out at Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra after a tense videoconference with fellow EU national leaders on Thursday night. Spain also weighed in on Friday to publicly chide Hoekstra in a north-south quarrel that reopened wounds still raw from the eurozone debt crisis a decade ago.
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