The European Union is casting Africa's health system as a potential threat to Europe should the pandemic ever spread to the southern continent.
"We have to help Africa in our own interest because if the pandemic spreads there, it will could [come] back to Europe," said Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief.
Speaking to reporters via videoconference on Friday (4 March), Borrell said Africa is now an even greater concern to the EU.
"Their problems will also be our probl...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.