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Corona gatecrashes EU trade meeting
By EUobserver
EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and German economy minister Peter Altmaier are in quarantine after an Irish delegation member at this week's informal trade ministers' meeting in Berlin tested positive for coronavirus. Irish trade minister Leo Varadkar is also in self-isolation, but several ministers participated by video-link. The EU recently cancelled a summit after Council president Charles Michel's bodyguard tested positive, amid a second wave of infections in Europe.