The coronavirus crisis may be a natural disaster but, Sheri Berman writes, how governments are responding is a product of their politics.
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Europe’s failure to address Covid-19 shows the need for a European ‘health citizenship’
A Europe-wide public-health authority should be a priority to counteract collective-action problems among EU member states.
Has the coronavirus brought back the nation-state?
The coronavirus crisis has remade the case for public authority—but that can only work in a complex network of multi-level governance.
The EU responds to the coronavirus: déjà vu all over again?
The European Union must manifest real solidarity in response to the coronavirus crisis. Muddling through will not do.
Keeping business alive: the government will pay
To prevent the coronavirus shock to demand precipitating a long-lasting depression, government needs to become short-term payer of last resort.
Europe’s refugee policy: walking headlong into disaster
The EU failed to learn from the crisis of 2015—and is now paying the price. Its refugee policy is even worse than back then.
How the new EU gender strategy fails east-central European women
The coronavirus epidemic exposes the care crisis and underlying class and regional inequalities—which the new strategy does not equip us to handle.
The corona crisis will define our era
Karin Pettersson writes that the pandemic has highlighted the frailties of a short-sighted and hyper-individualistic social system.
Plagued by Trumpism
For 40 years, US Republicans have been insisting that ‘government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem’. The bankruptcy of this has been laid bare.
Whose is the European Green Deal?
The challenges of social and environmental injustice are as intense as ever. But which social forces can act as the agents of change?
Advancing gender equality requires a new fiscal pact
Women’s strikes today draw attention to the need for global tax reform, so that investment in services can ease the burden of women’s domestic labour.
A great equaliser
Branko Milanovic writes that the coronavirus is reminding some of the world’s privileged what it is like to experience its daily stigmas.
