'Challenging' summit provides opportunity for EU to send message on crisis - Martin

Ireland's Prime Minister Micheal Martin arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Monday, July 20, 2020. Leaders from 27 European Union nations stretch their meeting into a fourth day on Monday to assess an overall budget and recovery package spread over seven years. (Stephanie Lecocq, Pool Photo via AP)

Taoiseach Mícheál Martin has said the European Union has an opportunity to send a strong message to citizens with its fiscal handling of the Covid-19 crisis.

Mr Martin was speaking to press as he arrived for the fourth day of an ongoing summit of EU leaders to continue negotiations on the union's €750bn emergency recovery fund.