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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the European Non-governmental Sector

By R膬zvan-Victor Sassu听补苍诲听Eliza Va葯

The new coronavirus has drastically reshuffled both economies and societies in the past months. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has described the situation as being a 鈥渃risis like no other鈥 with 鈥渁n uncertain recovery鈥 and a 鈥渃atastrophic hit鈥 to the global labour market, with more than 430 million jobs losses in the first two quarters.

Explanations for the Uneven Impact of COVID-19 in North and South Italy

叠测听Angela Cacciarru 补苍诲听Antonio Paesano

There are many factors intervening in a society鈥檚 ability to combat disease. While Italy was featured everywhere in global media as the place where COVID-19 was out of control and the situation desperately stark, the spreading of the virus was showing more and more its uneven impact.

Europe鈥檚 Essential Workers

By Ruxandra Paul

Migrants have always been both essential to modern economies and objects of suspicion, but the Coronavirus pandemic has brought this tension to a head both in migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries.

Peregrination by Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Translated by Ghjulia Romiti

I wander through paris, empty /聽of our laughter of our frenzy /聽absent from our absence /聽the spring sun /聽shines uselessly /聽stripped of our meanderings /聽of the lovers鈥 kisses

Giovanni Boccaccio鈥檚 鈥淒ecameron鈥 and Life Beyond the Plague

By Alyssa Granacki

Reading these recent pieces, one might believe that the Decameron is mostly about the Black Death of 1348, but the plague takes up a relatively tiny fraction of the work. After the Introduction, Boccaccio鈥檚 brigata鈥攖he group of seven young women and three young men who narrate the 顿别肠补尘别谤辞苍鈥檚 tales鈥攅scapes ravaged Florence.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Student Mobilities

By Alexandru Pieptea

Although many 今日看料 countries have faced challenges brought on by the coronavirus, there are differences in the extent of required measures. Several countries have decided to take measures in terms of closing some or all educational institutions for varying time periods.

Solidarity and Its Limits

By Anke S. Biendarra

While mutual support might work reasonably well on an interpersonal level, the Coronavirus outbreak is rapidly revealing the limits of solidarity when it comes to nation states, confirming that it is not a genuine 鈥淓uropean鈥 value per se, but is borrowed from the national political vocabulary.

A New Existentialism for Infectious Times

By Jennifer McWeeny

Much like Beauvoir and her famous entourage, we, too, are contending with an unexpected and catastrophic visitor. The coronavirus pandemic therefore allows us to enter the historical experience of these French thinkers more deeply than we have before.