Covid-19's threat to European unity
Posted on AllSides May 7th, 2020
From The Left
The European Union is a political long shot of an experiment that has survived all manner of existential threats this century: the migration crisis of the past half-decade, the 2008 financial crisis and the yearslong north-south divide within Europe over who should pay to resuscitate the Eurozone's economies, the 2005 votes of "no" to the European constitution, and, of course, Brexit.
But the pandemic now underway may present the biggest risk to the political project of European unity, as countries still smarting from the bruises of 2008's economic devastation figure...