"Plenty of evidence of resources being shifted across borders to help the worst affected area."

Not what I've been reading 59,

"A further example of the damage to the European project wrought by the epidemic is the break-down of European solidarity. Never a perfect concept in the first place, that solidarity under crisis is patently ceding to nation state reflexes. Italy, the first into the crisis and woefully lacking in surgical masks and ventilators, was pained by France and Germany’s refusal to release some of their stocks."

And what has the EU got to do with any of this anyway, in times of crisis nation states assist each other as and when they can, the EU is superfluous, it's like Ben Gibson, an expensive ornament.