{"id":5346,"date":"2020-04-14T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationaldiplomat.com\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:43:00","slug":"europe-before-and-after-the-coronavirus-19-by-mri-political-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=5346","title":{"rendered":"EUROPE before and after the Coronavirus 19 By MRI, Political Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>EUROPE before and after the Coronavirus 19<\/strong><em> By MRI, Political Analyst<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The health and lives of citizens must be a priority again.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Citizens are tired and upset by the chaotic way of managing crisis.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lack of a common European strategy is evident.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Apologies and solidarity are not enough.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A concerted response and a common European strategy is needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>How was Europe before the Coronavirus outburst\u00a0?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before the sanitary crisis started mid-March 2020, Europe was characterised by a shaky world economic environment, the Brexit and the decadence of the European integration process.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Individualism and consumerism\u00a0seemed to be accepted and sustained by the world leaders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Discourses were oriented towards economic growth, the SPREAD, the rule of the 3% deficit: the theory of liberalism in all its beauty.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nothing could shake the belief that capitalism and consumerism combined were the only ways to find happiness.\u00a0The world was animated by the politics of power and self-interest.\u00a0The Brexit had given a bitter taste to Europe, while disaffection for its (dys) functionning and for its institutions grew.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There was the climate change movement.\u00a0No plan B for the planet!\u00a0The youth came out in the streets to manifest against the previous generations that apparently had not thought about their future.\u00a0How could have leaders of the world forgotten the protection of the waters, of the animals, of the air, and of the earth in general\u00a0?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The economic growth dogma coupled with the belief that more goods and more commercial services would make the humanity happy, seemed to be shaken by a new concern:\u00a0save the planet\u00a0!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While the anti-European Union movement had also started to grow in Italy and in Poland, the idea of a continent that was united only in self-interest protection was promoted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Citizens continued to complain about this Europe that did not do enough for its peoples.\u00a0\u00a0In less than 20 years, the system had created resistence and opposition by citizens.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The communication efforts had been coupled by the use of social media to make the message go through to national audiences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The result was an increase of hostility and dis-belief.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then, in blink of an eye \u2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2.\u00a0 The CORONAVIRUS\u00a0came to Europe\u00a0!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Coronavirus started first in China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So far away from Europe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a few days the epidemy spread all over Europe. Italy was the first European country touched at its heart. In a few weeks the only word that was heard in Europe and Italy, in particular was:\u00a0Death\u00a0! Death\u00a0! Death\u00a0!\u00a0Death\u00a0!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stay home\u00a0! Confinement\u00a0!\u00a0The panic crossed our lives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The power of money was suddenly relative compared to the proximity of death.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Death was not anymore only a remote possibility, but a very probable fact.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The symptoms of the sick Western system came out once again as being evident:\u00a0Italy was the most affected country to start with.\u00a0Spain followed. The United States. And many others.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Where was the European solidarity\u00a0?\u00a0Where were our neighbours\u00a0? France\u00a0? Germany\u00a0? Where was Europe\u00a0?\u00a0Once again the missed opportunity of showing deep cohesion among Member States, rather than communication strategies emptied of substance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Italy had asked in the beginning of the\u00a0\u2018epidemic crisis\u2019 the support of the European Central Bank, and we know what happened\u00a0: Christine LaGarde dismissed Italy\u2019s request.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Starting from the British prime Minister that adopted a different approach to confinement, and announced to the British people to be prepared to seee theirs cherished ones die.\u00a0To discover at a later stage that he was tested positive to the Coronavirus. Followed by the French media, stating that they would not face the same crisis as in Italy as their hospitals were better equipped, and managed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">National responses have shown the selfishness of the European Nations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One day 35 doctors came from Cuba. These doctors from Cuba interviewed spoke about solidarity and their sense of collective necessity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why in Europe we cannot move in the direction of the solidarity, and of public services as a means of keeping social solidarity\u00a0? While European countries seemed skeptical in taking patients from Italy straight away ?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The solitude of countries facing the Coronavirus has shown the limits of Europe as a solidarity actor.\u00a0Solidarity does not seem to be a value for Europe.\u00a0We talk about the solidarity on the ground, the one thar enters in peoples\u2019 lives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To have an impact the European solidarity must be structured around institutional responses.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>3. How will Europe be after the Coravirus\u00a0?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Will Europe change after this experience\u00a0? Maybe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Will the \u2018fast and furious\u2019 rythm change\u00a0?\u00a0\u00a0Maybe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Will we have a new project of life\u00a0? Both collective and personal\u00a0?\u00a0Will we re- think our societies\u00a0?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only time will tell.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The reflection has started. The process of changing habits and beliefs is not easy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once this crisis will be over the risk of going back to business as usual is high.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This experience has also shown that being in a market economy does not\u00a0mean that citizens do not need the State.\u00a0On the contrary, the\u00a0State is a key actor in the this process and the integration of Europe is necessary as well.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Why\u00a0?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To rebalance the existing unbalanced system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the collective interest, Europe must move towards more integration and common responses to collective challenges.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EUROPE before and after the Coronavirus 19 By MRI, Political Analyst The health and lives of citizens must be a priority again. 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