COVID, Europe, and the Self-Asphyxiation of Democracy
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I have no crystal ball with which to assess or predict the long-term impact of COVID on our democracies; long experience has taught me to avoid punditry—I always get it wrong. But the current circumstance has been helpful in highlighting and accentuating longstanding problems of democracy in and of Europe (Member States and the EU itself) which predate the pandemic and are likely to outlive it. And though the focus of this chapter is on Europe, the underlying issues are, I believe, relevant far more widely.
Source Publication
Democracy in Times of Pandemic: Different Futures Imagined
Source Editors/Authors
Miguel Poiares Maduro, Paul W. Kahn
Publication Date
2020
Recommended Citation
Weiler, Joseph H. H., "COVID, Europe, and the Self-Asphyxiation of Democracy" (2020). Faculty Chapters. 1476.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1476
