in Nico Steytler (edited by), Comparative Federalism and Covid-19 Combating the Pandemic, Routledge, 2021
The European Union (EU) experienced two waves of infection during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. ... more The European Union (EU) experienced two waves of infection during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The first wave, extending from March to May, came to notice when infections began to be detected in northern Italy on 21 February, after which the coronavirus spread across all 27 EU member states, with Italy and Spain initially the hardest hit countries. At the end of summer in Europe, this was followed by a second wave of the pandemic, in which contagion again affected the entirety of the EU but was characterised by faster rates of infection and had a heavy impact even on states, such as Germany, which fared relatively well in the first wave. As at 31 October 2020, the EU had recorded a total of 10,020,313 cases and 273,734 deaths; economically, the effects of the first wave were keenly felt by the most fragile states, such as Italy and Spain, but during the second wave, it became clear that the pandemic was posing a serious economic threat to both the EU as a whole and each and every member state. The outbreak of Covid-19 put a major squeeze on the EU's institutional and economic framework, and the crisis it brought about shook the foundations of European integration. This was all the more so because the pandemic found the EU already divided from within, on the one hand facing contestation by numerous member states (notably Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Hungary) and, on the other, deeply concerned by Britain's exit, which came to pass on 31 January 2020, only a few weeks before the start of the pandemic. As a result, many reforms to the European Treaties were on the table, especially in regard to the empowerment of the European Parliament. In this context, the economic crisis underlined the division between the richer (the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany) and poorer (Italy, Spain, and Greece) EU countries.
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Due panel nell'ambito della ricerca RED-SPINEL, organizzati dall'unità LUISS
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Due panel nell'ambito della ricerca RED-SPINEL, organizzati dall'unità LUISS
Il primo panel si propone di esaminare con approcci e metodologie diverse il concreto dispiegarsi del valore della rule of law nelle dinamiche tra Stati membri e Unione tanto come pre-condizione per l’adesione all’UE quanto come standard contestato nel controllo sull’identità costituzionale dalle corti nazionali, sia, d’altra parte, nello strumentario usato dalla Corte di giustizia europea per cercare di arginare le derive illiberali.
Il secondo panel propone una riflessione sulla natura, sui punti di forza e di debolezza dei meccanismi di condizionalità quali strumenti per la tutela della rule of law nell’Unione. Gli speaker tratteranno il tema da prospettive differenti, seppur strettamente collegate tra loro.
Aside from designing the institutional architecture and power division within a state, constitutions are also repositories of shared values (...)