Efforts by European Union finance ministers to strike a deal on a package of coronavirus-related fiscal measures have failed early on Wednesday, with talks due to resume later this week, dpa reported. After 16 hours of discussions that began on Tuesday afternoon, "we came close to a deal but we are not there yet," Mario Centeno, head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, wrote on Twitter. The talks are to resume on Thursday, he added. EU leaders had given the finance ministers two weeks to agree on a set of proposed measures, at a summit on March 26 at which they were unable to reach a compromise on the thorny issue.