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Europe’s Pandemic Debt Is Dizzying. Who Will Pay?



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PARIS — For nearly six months, Philippe Boreal and 120 of his fellow workers have been paid to stay home from their jobs at a Cannes luxury hotel that was forced to close for the pandemic.Mr. Boreal, a janitor for 20 years, is grateful for the aid, which is bankrolled by the French government under a sweeping plan to rescue people and businesses from economic calamity. But as the Covid-19 crisis drags on, he wonders how long the largess can last.“At some point you ask yourself, ‘How are we going to pay for all this?’” asked Mr. Boreal, who is collecting …

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