🆘 As ~150 million Europeans are homeconfined, Germans & Belgians walk freely across their cities. British kids still go to school. Shops are open in Sweden.
How to make sense of these conflicting realities when we — EU citizens — are all equally affected by #COVID2019 ? THREAD
How to make sense of these conflicting realities when we — EU citizens — are all equally affected by #COVID2019 ? THREAD
How do we assimilate that each European country and people contributing differently to the attainment of a shared aim: the containment of the disease in a border-free Europe? #COVID2019 #CoronavirusOutbreak
But who’s really to blame for the current EU uncoordinated situation on #COVID2019 ? The EU cannot close schools, or lock down European cities. It cannot even close borders to curb the spreading of the virus. Only its member countries can do that (and some just did) #COVID2019
Despite the inherent limits of the Union, the EU-27 health ministers could — on a voluntary basis — decide to pool their sovereign emergency powers. They could start coordinating their health response, by taking a common line on testing, containment, quarantine, social distancing
