Europe: from bankruptcy to hope

Le Regard Libre N° 64 - Clément Guntern

While China is already announcing that its political model has emerged victorious from the pandemic, and the United States has been hit by the weakness of its government, Europeans are harshly judging their Union for having failed. But there has indeed been a revival - in the European way, of course. Time to hope come?

«Faced with Covid-19, the EU is on life support». This is the headline that the press has generally used to describe the European Union's response to the coronavirus crisis. The widely shared observation is that the European level acted too little, too late. At the height of the crisis, it was precisely the lack of coordination between states that was pointed out, as well as a number of incidents, notably the blocking of health supplies at borders. The same applies to the implementation of