In Croatia, an allegedly independent group of experts have pulled the strings in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But this crisis management has in fact been deeply political, writes journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulić. Dependent on tourism, EU’s youngest member state plays a risky game where political power and economy stand against the lives of the most vulnerable. In the end the future of democracy could be at stake.
The EU will never be a functioning democracy without a corresponding functioning public sphere. Investigative journalism has a major role to play in taking the European institutions, leaders and actions accountable, like it does at the national level, says Dutch anthropologist and author Joris Luyendijk.
The €750 billion meant to help Europe recover from the coronavirus crisis could have a profound impact on the very functioning of the EU. However, it will be necessary to ensure that the EU has the adequate means available to transform this experiment and consider its future beyond the crisis, says expert Tremeur Denigot.
Faced with the alarming state of aquatic ecosystems in Europe, the European hub of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) asks the European Union, as well as its member states, to commit themselves to the recognition of the Rights of Aquatic Ecosystems and requests the recognition of planetary boundaries as a binding norm in the guiding principles of European law.
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