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There is a glimmer of hope': economists on coronavirus and capitalism
In this article, “Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams” discuss “the hope for a global new deal” (Varoufakis and McWilliams, 2020).
Coronavirus has revealed the EU's fatal flaw: the lack of solidarity
"In a recent interview, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, laid out how European leaders had a rendezvous with history and needed to come together... By all measures, this rendezvous with history was missed. European leaders in effect agreed to keep calm and carry on." (Vallee, 2020)
Bill Gates on How to Fight Future Pandemics
"The coronavirus will hasten three big medical breakthroughs. That is just a start… When historians write the book on the covid-19 pandemic, what we’ve lived through so far will probably take up only the first third or so. The bulk of the story will be what happens next." (Gates, 2020)
World Federalism, Global Democracy and Coronavirus
"The coronavirus crisis shows the consequences of the enormous contradiction under which seven billion human beings live now: a world globalized by technology and economy but politically divided into almost 200 national states all taking separate and uncoordinated measures. Does anyone still believe this can work?" (Iglesias, 2020)
Europe Poised to Repeat Austerity Mistakes in Coronavirus Response
“The European Union is ill suited for crisis...it’s all happening again over Covid-19, this time amplified by fear and death on a continent struggling with half of the world’s 1.4 million confirmed cases” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
Coronavirus and the Dawn of Post-Democratic Europe
"Hungary has used the pandemic to abandon its last vestiges of democracy—and to dare the EU to do anything about it" (Hockenos, 2020)
Coronavirus Tests Europe’s Cohesion, Alliances and Even Democracy
“With the rapid spread of the virus, Brussels is fumbling, nations are diverging, populists are salivating and the U.S. is erecting barriers against allies” (Steven Erlanger, 2020).
A Voice for Global Citizens: a UN World Citizens’ Initiative
This report recommends that the United Nations (UN) should develop its democratic legitimacy through the creation of the instrument of a World Citizens’ Initiative (WCI) by which global citizens can place proposals on the agenda of the UN General Assembly or the UN Security Council. (Organ and Murphy, 2019).
China and the world: Inside the dynamics of a changing relationship
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The case for a UN Parliamentary Assembly and the Inter-Parliamentary Union
This paper looks into the relationship between the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the proposed United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA). It outlines their characteristics and provides an assessment of similarities and differences with special consideration of the IPU’s collaboration with the UN and its capacity to address the UN’s democratic deficit. (Bummel, 2019).
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