The French Senate recently walked back a state of emergency provision that shielded decision-makers from criminal responsibility related to their actions during the COVID-19 crisis. Law researcher Sophie Duroy analyses the provision, its rationale, and proposes an approach to high-risk decision-making that ensures legality while safeguarding effectiveness.

The extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19 put severe limits on movement in the EU, setting up a potential conflict between air carriers and ticketed passengers who could no longer depart. Will the Commission’s guidelines on the matter help or hurt consumers? Law researcher Marc Steiert takes a look.

Will efforts to recover from the economic damage wrought by COVID-19 accelerate the EU’s development of a European industrial strategy? Political Science researcher Luuk Schmitz reflects on what could happen.

In this article, STG Policy Leader Fellow Sebnem Kenis discusses the gendered implications of COVID-19 across a range of human rights.

Jonas Brendebach and Nathalie Tocci examine the challenges and opportunities COVID-19 has posed to multilateralism and global cooperation, indicating some key take-aways generated by a panel debate held during the 2020 The State of the Union Conference.

George Papaconstantinou and Sebastian Diessner lay out key take-aways from a high-level discussion on economic policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Political theorist and Max Weber Fellow, Eniola Anuoluwapo Soyemi examines compliance with COVID-19 restrictions among citizens in African countries, and locates high levels of cooperation in the mutual respect and obligation people feel towards each other, rather than to state governments.

EUI researcher Risto Conte Keivabu illustrates the green effects of the economic lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis using data from the ESA’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.

Survey data collected by YouGov in April 2020 indicate that, in this time of pandemic, Europeans are favourable to policies that support solidarity across the Union. Read the analysis by political scientists Björn Bremer and Philipp Genschel.

International trade experts Bernard Hoekman, Matteo Fiorini and Aydin Yildirim urge countries to share information and pursue plurilateral agreements to guarantee supplies of crucial medical equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.