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Many European governments are experiencing a rise of popularity in the polls. Epidemics seem to make people support the status quo. But not in Spain. So what went wrong? Starting with a scene from 1869 opera "Les brigands" by Jacques Offenbach, where the fundamental questions of solidarity, poverty and trust come to the fore, we'll talk with Madrid-based economist and political scientist Martín Rodríguez Alberdi about the mistakes made by Spain's Sánchez-government and why the Northern European governments' reluctance to meet the South's financial demands is both logical and problematic. Picture: "Five of Coins - Solidarity in Poverty", by Pamela Colman Smith (1910)