By Sergio Goncalves and Ingrid Melander
LISBON (Reuters) – The coronavirus seems to be a “temporary shock” to the euro zone economy but the bloc’s member states must be prepared to act in a coordinated way if the impact becomes a more long-lasting one, the chairman of euro zone finance ministers Mario Centeno said.
“It’s the new risk and it’s obviously a downside risk to our economies,” Centeno told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
“It looks like it’s going to be temporary, but the impact is there, and … we need to coordinate our actions in case this becomes a more global scenario,” he said.
(Reporting by Ingrid Melander and Sergio Goncalves; Editing by Jon Boyle)
