Friday, March 6, 2020

THE EU AND THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

When Border Closures and Supranational Collaboration go hand in hand


Federal Trust article
by Ira Straus
Chair, Center for War-Peace Studies

Unexpectedly, a virus, SARS 2 CoV-2, has become the most important political as well as human issue facing us at this time. Like any crisis of public safety, it presents the EU with an opportunity also: the opportunity to become a strong provider of security for its countries and citizens. Instead, tragically, EU is on the verge of committing a major mistake, its second potentially suicidal mistake in four years, by holding onto open borders (the Italian one) in this emergency period.

continue reading at https://fedtrust.co.uk/the-eu-and-the-coronavirus-crisis/