After a year of slight contraction in 2018, the European parquet market improved in 2019. Unfortunately, this positive result and the good start of the year observed at the very beginning of 2019 have to be balanced with the upsurge of the Covid-19.  In a nutshell, the situation is getting worse when going from north to south of Europe which was hit earlier and harder by the pandemic. Italy, Spain, but also France or Belgium have been locked down for weeks.  Non-German speaking parts of Switzerland and Austria were also confronted to this kind ...