European stocks closed lower on Thursday, the last trading session of the year 2020 that was dominated by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The STOXX Europe 600 index declined by 0.14% after a short trading session ahead of the New Year’s Holiday.
The annual losses of the pan-European index have reached 3.8%.
Meanwhile, the UKS’s FTSE100 finished lower by around 1.5% to end its worst year since 2008.
On an annual basis, the French index CAC40 decreased by 7%, while the German DAX fell by 3.5%.
The Italian FTSE MIB lost 5.4%, while the Spanish index IBEX dropped by 15%.