Sweden’s European partners have heaped criticism on its approach: risky, experimental, cynical, naive, slow, and crazy are some adjectives they’ve hurled at their normally compliant neighbour
Marlene Riedel quoted on the little restrictions Sweden implemented during the corona crisis
Societies can’t be mobilized in perpetuity. There’s inevitably a fatigue, and people will ask more difficult questions.
Mark Leonard quoted on the rise of popular support for governments during the corona crisis
In the short term this crisis snuffs out a lot of activism, but once the health situation becomes manageable, this potentially unleashes a wave of challenges for incumbent elites
Julien Barnes-Dacey quoted on the risks covid-19 bring about for the MENA region
The EU will really have to come out of the crisis first in order to undergo any structural transformation
PiS is determined to hold as it has been planned on 10 May although the number of [COVID-19] infections and deaths is still on the rise and there is no campaign. […] This is deeply immoral and undemocratic.
A new Marshall Plan to rebuild post-pandemic Europe could help its economy to bounce back. And we may find that the populist wave has reached its limits
After coronavirus: how will Europe rebuild? Vessela Tcherneva provides her answer in The Guardian.
Many felt as if they were reliving what happened at the time of the euro-crisis or the refugee crisis: a selfish Germany, insensitive to the problems of other European countries and, above all, concerned only with its own interests
Health becomes the greatest security concern for Europeans
