Europe’s pandemic politics: How the virus has changed the public’s worldview
To load the audio player provided by Soundcloud, click the button below. This means Soundcloud will receive technical data about your device or browser, as well as information about your visit on this page. Soundcloud may use cookies and may transfer your data to servers outside the EU, where the level of data protection may not be equivalent to that in the EU. For more information visit our privacy policy.
As covid-19 raged, speculation grew that the crisis would re– strengthen public support for the state; faith in experts; and both pro- and anti-Europeanism. But ECFR’s latest research reveals these all to be illusions. Instead, the crisis has revolutionised citizens’ perceptions of global order – scrambling the distinctions between nationalism and globalism. Host Mark Leonard is joined by Ivan Krastev, co-author of the new Unlock study and chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia as well as by ECFR co-chair Lykke Friis and Ismaël Emelien, co-founder of En Marche! and President Emmanuel Macron 's former special advisor for strategy, communication and speeches. Together they discuss the findings of ECFR’s Unlock project: how has the pandemic changed European politics and the Europeans’ view of the EU and the world?
Find the paper by Ivan Krastev & Mark Leonard here.
This podcast was recorded on 25 June 2020
Bookshelf:
- “Is it tomorrow yet?: Paradoxes of the pandemic” by Ivan Krastev
- “The uncontrollability of the World” by Hartmut Rosa
- “The new progressivism: a grassroots alternative to the populism of our times” by Ismaël Emelien & David Amiel
