Europe in the Time of Coronavirus: responding to the political and economic challenges of COVID-19 [

Speaker(s): Professor Chris Anderson, Professor Simon Glendinning, Professor Waltraud Schelkle | Periods of crisis can strip politics back to its most basic forms, and the political reality is laid bare: who, if anyone, has the power to tell other people what to do. While the European Union has a considerable stake in the crisis, particularly in the Eurozone, it is national states which have been the politically primary actors in calling for lockdowns across Europe. Real coercive power still lies, it seems, with Europe’s nations. What repercussions has this reassertion of national political power had on public opinion across Europe? Will it change how Europeans think of themselves and each other? Will it bring us together or push us further apart? And how will the Euro area cope? Chris Anderson (@soccerquant) is Professor in European Politics & Policy at the European Institute at LSE. Simon Glendinning (@lonanglo) is Professor in European Philosophy and Head of the European Institute a