Michael Kontouris
VoxEurop
European countries are set to invest up to 2.82 billion euro by 2100 to avoid losing as much as 1.27 trillion euro due to climate-driven coastal flood damage, a new analysis by the EU Joint Research Center shows. Cartoon
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Jean-Dominique Giuliani (Schuman Foundation): ‘Europe will be democratic or not at all’
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Citizens Take Over Europe initiative: ‘We want a Europe that cares and is taken care of’
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COVID-19 and mobility: The coronavirus crisis opens a new fracture in Europe
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Press freedom in Europe: Situation is ‘deeply unsatisfactory’
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Music in the time of Covid-19 : How the pandemic is affecting Spotify use
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Sport in times of Covid-19: Will football go bust?
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Looking at post-coronavirus Europe: A roadmap for exiting the crisis
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RSF press freedom index 2020: Journalists confronted with growing physical, online, and economic pressure
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Authoritarian drift in Hungary: Europe must find the antidote for Viktor Orbán’s latest power grab
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The EU and the Covid-19: Can borders stop the outbreak?
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Exiting Covid-19 confinement: Post-pandemic Vienna
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Call to the EU leadership: Save the European patient (before it’s too late)!
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Voxeurop editorial: Europeans demand more from the EU
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The EU and the Covid-19 crisis: Eurobonds can wait – for now
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Luca Jahier on the COVID-19 crisis: ‘The EU has to go the last mile, now’
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Open letter to the EU and European leaders: ‘We need Renaissance bonds to face the health and economic crisis’
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Facing the coronavirus crisis: ‘The time has come for a new European patriotism’
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Call to the EU : ‘Why we need coronabonds to help EU states face the crisis’
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EU and the COVID-19 crisis: Not helpless nor hopeless
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German-Italian appeal to EU Member States: European solidarity now, in the interest of all
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State of emergency in Hungary: Viktor Orbán’s corona coup
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COVID-19 and disinformation: The infodemic is as virulent as the pandemic
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State of emergency in Hungary: Viktator
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EU and the COVID-19 crisis: The nation-state strikes back
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COVID-19: Life support
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In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, the founding act of European construction, on the 9th of May, we spoke with the president of the Schuman Foundation to discuss the state of this process and his perspectives. 
On 9 May, Europe Day, the Citizens Take Over Europe alliance launches its Assembly, a citizens' conversation on the future of Europe. The Assembly is necessary because civil society has been sidelined from the Conference on the Future of Europe promoted by the European Union, explain the representatives of the initiative, Marta Cillero, Michele Fiorillo and Martin Pairet. 
How has the mobility of Europeans evolved with the different measures and degrees of containment to slow the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic? Follow the changes thanks to the application developed by our partners from Civio. 
Physical attacks on journalists and threats to media freedom are on the rise, says the latest report of the partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform to promote the protection of journalism and the safety of journalists. 
Those confined and working from home have more time to watch, listen and read. Music services should benefit from this, but the data suggests the opposite. 
The interruption to football championships – local, national and European – caused by the coronavirus pandemic is plunging the sport into a crisis. For a sector with billions in annual turnover, tomorrow’s world is looking very different to yesterday’s.
If Europe wants to avoid the mistakes it made after the 2008 financial and the later eurozone crisis, it needs to mobilise its institutions, governments, economic and social actors as well as civil society. Guillaume Klossa suggests a possible path to a sustainable recovery that involves the EU budget. 
The latest Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders highlights yet again the risks journalists face worldwide. Coronavirus is only the latest threat to a profession already under fire even in relatively safe Europe.
Led by our partners Civico Europa, political and cultural figures from across the continent call on the institutions and citizens of the EU to take action against the Hungarian Prime Minister's latest power grab, enacted on the pretext of combating the coronavirus epidemic. 
While the EU may not have any jurisdiction in matters of public health, it can facilitate coordination between member states so that border security can identify and isolate infected people, and allow the movement of patients from one country to another to ease pressure on overcrowded hospitals. 
Three hundred fifty years after the Great Viennese Plague and 75 years after the moral and material disaster of World War 2 and the Holocaust, Vienna’s landmarks are helping inhabitants come to terms with Corona. Or are they really? 
A group of Polish intellectuals, researchers and activists call for a series of strong measures to help Europe recover from the crisis generated by the coronavirus epidemic in this open letter to the presidents of the European Parliament, Commission and Council, and to "all the politicians of goodwill". It has already been signed by more than 240 leading European personalities. 
As Covid-19 ravages Europe, the grassroots call for more coordination and intervention at the European level gets louder by the day. 
The European summit of 26 March, held by videoconference, ended in failure. The 27 heads of state and government failed to agree on a united response to the economic crisis triggered by Covid-19. They simply asked the Eurogroup (the eurozone's economy and finance ministers) to make proposals to them by 7 April.
The Coronavirus crisis is the first of its kind for the European Union. However, it is far from being the first existential crisis in the history of the Union, says the chair of the European Economic and Social Council in this new episode of the podcast The Grassroots view.
In this open letter to EU heads and national leaders, over 1,500 economists, academics, and professionals from all over Europe propose a series of urgent measures in response to the Covid-19 epidemic. They also demand that the EU create a common fund that would issue European securities called "European Renaissance Bonds" to help EU countries overcome the crisis. 
In this open letter first published by EUobserver, several European academics call for the EU to show it can help and bring hope to citizens facing the challenges the Covid-19 pandemic is posing to our societies. 
In an appeal published by Die Zeit and Le Monde, several German personalities including political scientist Ulrike Guérot and philosopher Jürgen Habermas are calling for the creation of a European "corona fund". The fund would help European countries struggling to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. 
Contrary to what is being said and written by many, the European Union can do a great deal to protect its citizens from the pandemic, and to compensate for shortcomings due to lack of coordination between member states. 
As the coronavirus crisis spreads across Europe, there are increasing calls for greater coordination and solidarity at the European level. Here is the latest one, already signed by several European personalities. We support it, and invite you to sign it. 
A new emergency law has given Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán sweeping powers, turning a free-speech nightmare into a Corona-driven reality. Will liberal democracy manage to avoid contagion? 
From genocide accusations to alleged cures, the coronavirus pandemic is accompanied by a swathe of conspiracy theories. These are perpetrated not only by clickbait websites but also authoritarian regimes who exploit the crisis for political purposes and try to shift the blame from their inadequate responses. An international survey and a detailed case study. 
While initial responses to the coronavirus crisis have favoured national sovereignty and public authority, effective solutions will only emerge from a complex network of multi-level governance.