Far apart: EU leaders hold budget summit in pandemic times

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are meeting Friday in the largest room they could find at their summit center so they can keep apart as a health precaution. That’s not the only way in which they are far apart — they are also a long way from one another on the subject of the meeting: plans for an unprecedented 1.85 trillion euro ($2.1 trillion) EU budget and recovery fund. French President Emmanuel Macron led the early negotiations,…