The Coronavirus Pandemic Should End Europe’s Comfort Zone

The deadly coronavirus that has killed so many Europeans, especially in Italy and Spain, ought to jolt Europe out of its complacency. Don’t bet on it.

Whenever there is a crisis, European Union leaders have the habit of saying that the bloc will emerge stronger. They have been repeatedly disproved of this s The war in Yugoslavia, which led to the killing of tens of thousands during the 1990s, didn’t push the EU into developing a credible foreign or defense policy.

The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 followed by the near collapse of the EU’s euro currency weren’t enough to convince European leaders to pursue more economic integration.

The war in Syria, now in its tenth year, should have shamed European leaders into some kind of action to stop the misery and killing. Instead, with few exceptions, European leaders turned inward, unwilling to take any kind of political or moral leadership.

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Πηγή: carnegieeurope.eu