Luc de Barochez © Illustration : Dusault for “The Point”The coronavirus is unfair. In the european Union, he does not hit all countries with the same gravity. Those in the South who pay a heavier price. In Italy, Spain and France, the dead are more numerous than in Germany or the netherlands. The country where you died the most are the most heavily indebted ; countries that are relatively spared budgets with the chalk line. This is not altogether a coincidence. If a State does not control its public finances, it is often because it is poorly managed. Its health-care system suffers as a result.
The Italian case is emb…
