Europe’s coronavirus death toll jumped above 30,000 and the EU's economy has been severely hit by the crisis. However, European leaders have been squabbling over a push by Italy, Spain, Portugal and France to issue joint “coronabonds” to help finance an economic stimulus and weather the crisis. “It is clear that the European Union is an egoistic coalition,” Mr Mélenchon, a member of the French parliament and president of the leftist France Unbowed party, told France Info radio.