crespo has already had to close one of his 3 stores the spanish economy suffered an 18.5 percent slump in the 2nd quarter while the average across europe was a solid 12 percent. drop. now shopkeepers like crespo fear a renewed increase in the number of infections because another lockdown would be his ruin. can't europe's economy survive a 2nd coronavirus wave. it's a big question we're asking. the question. explain survive. spain can only survive if it's being helped by the other european countries because unfortunately in europe we have this divide between countries like let's say spain or portugal or greece and rich countries like germany for example the germany problem to survive carbone also fall because what the government did was just to print new money by taking out loans and there's no limit for the german government when it comes to. taking out loans but for those poor countries it's really difficult to get finance so what we need is the whole of europe. on a package that has already been proposed. 750000000000 euros. supposed to be voted for in parliament and then to go to th