# In a co-authored op-ed, Professor Marti Subrahmanyam warns that the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a stark light on the dissimilarities between the national economies of European Union members and urges leaders to agree on a new arrangement of mutual aid

1 Faculty News May 2, 2020 ![Fortune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031172.jpg?itok=61CxYB-R)>

Excerpt from [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2020/05/02/eu-debt-crisis-bailouts-coronavirus/) -- "The European Union is in trouble. From the start, its countries haven’t been on equal footing. But COVID-19 has shone a stark light on the dissimilarities between its national economies. The crisis has also laid bare that EU members have significantly different views on what obligations they have to one another."

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