helle thorning—schmidt, what is your answer?estion is something everyone is asking right now. looking at the kind of market that caused this in china, i have no doubt that after this we will have to have new regulations, regulating these kind of markets, not only in china, but in many places. we will have new regulations and i am hoping that the who can be leading in actually getting the regulation for stopping this kind of trade and in these kind of markets. but i don't think it is the time to evaluate what was done right now. we can do that after and until then we all have to be very happy that we've actually got an international body which is trying to solve some of these major issues that no country can solve on their own. so the jury is out, you are saying, on whether the world health organization did drop the ball on the initial spread. not the time now to look into that. richard horton, the wet market suspected to be a source of coronavirus, do scientists now think that is indisputable? that that is how coronavirus origin

let's speak now to helle thorning schmidt, who was prime minister of denmark from 2011 to 2015.orjoining us. what are your thoughts about the impact of the this coronavirus crisis on europe and the european union? well, first of all, i think we have to see it in two halves if you wish. the first half has been appalling, the member states of eu commission, the who and they realised it was a disaster too much too late. 0ne reason is health is not a real competence for eu. it is something that member states deal with themselves. the other thing was that when they finally realised there was a disaster looming, they started act ing for themselves and hoarding special equipment and putting an export ban on ppe and then they, the border controls without co—ordinating with each other. the first half has of this hz not been pretty and where solidarity was needed, each member state was thinking about themselves. i think they failed the first half of the coronavirus test. in some ways, we have seen very different results in different countries. for example, germany, which seems to be very