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From Diversity to Coordination: A European Approach to COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the face of Europe. Member States? divergent
responses to this crisis reveal a lack of unity in the face of a humanitarian
catastrophe. At best, this undermines the effectiveness of health protection
within the European Union (EU). At worst, it risks breaking up the Union
altogether. Divergent national responses to COVID-19 reflect different national
preferences and political legitimacy, and thus cannot be completely avoided. In
this article, we argue that these responses should be better coordinated. Without
coordination, the price for diversity is high. Firstly, there are damaging
spill-overs between Member States, which undermine key pillars of European
integration such as the free movement of persons and of goods. Secondly, national
policy-making is easily captured by local interest groups. Our proposal is that
the EU indicates ? not mandates ? a European exit strategy from asymmetric
containment policies of COVID-19. In particular, the EU should help Member States
procure and validate tests for infection and immunity. The EU should also
indicate ways in which testing could be used to create safe spaces to work,
thereby restoring the free movement of persons and of goods. We see a great
advantage in such EU guidance: it could improve mutual learning between Member
States, which have faced different timings of the epidemic and learned different
lessons. Although the local political economy has so far delayed learning and
undermined cooperation, the EU can mitigate both effects and indicate the way for
Europe to resurrect united from the ashes of COVID-19.