EPRS Strategy By / April 23, 2020

Coronavirus: Impact and challenges [What Think Tanks are thinking]

As the coronavirus crisis continues to take its deadly toll across the world, it does so with varying degrees of severity depending on the country.

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Written by Marcin Grajewski,

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As the coronavirus crisis continues to take its deadly toll across the world, it does so with varying degrees of severity depending on the country. Some states are considering relaxing preventive measures against the disease, others are doing so already. Many analysts and politicians are beginning to turn their attention from short-term measures to contain the virus and save economies from collapse to longer-term challenges, such as the pandemic’s impact on international governance, defence, foreign policy and the international debt market.

This note offers links to recent commentaries and reports from international think tanks on the coronavirus and related issues. Earlier publications on the topic can be found in the previous edition item in this series, published by the EPRS on 15 April.

How the EU should co-ordinate an end to the Covid-19 lockdown
Centre for European Reform, April 2020

Protecting employment in the time of coronavirus
Centre for European Policy Studies, April 2020

In the corona crisis, who is the more reliable international partner?
Bertelsmann Stiftung, April 2020

The EU needs a more comprehensive vision to tackle pandemics
Carnegie Europe, April 2020

The global coronavirus crisis: An uneven recovery and rising political risk
International Institute for Strategic Studies, April 2020

Covid-19: La fin du leadership américain?
Institut français des relations internationales , April 2020

From Strategic Autonomy to the internationalization of the euro: Europe’s challenges and the impact of the Covid-19 crisis
Instituto Affari Internazionali, April 2020

Year of the Rat: The strategic consequences of the coronavirus crisis
Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, April 2020

L’UE face au coronavirus: Comment financer l’économie européenne en temps de crise?
Confrontations Europe, April 2020

A coordinated, unlimited and flexible insurance policy to respond to the pandemic
Real Instituto Elcano, April 2020

Eurozone passes coronavirus rescue plan, but political unity remains elusive
Atlantic Council, April 2020

The coronavirus threatens NATO: Let’s move to protect the alliance
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, April 2020

The armed forces and Covid-19
International Institute for Strategic Studies, April 2020

Call on European Parliament: Stop freight cabotage restrictions and save the Single Market
European Centre for International Political Economy, April 2020

Humanity, politics and politicians in Covid times
Friends of Europe, April 2020

The coronavirus as a yardstick of global health policy
Real Instituto Elcano, April 2020

Europe’s missing coronavirus exit strategy
Carnegie Europe, April 2020

Lessons from comparing the Covid-19 pandemic with the global cyber threat
International Institute for Strategic Studies, April 2020

Covid-19: Les réponses européennes
Fondation Robert Schuman, April 2020

What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic
Council on Foreign Relations, April 2020

Take me to your leader! Or how the EU could emerge stronger from the corona crisis
Egmont, April 2020

Coronavirus: How are countries responding to the economic crisis?
Council on Foreign Relations, April 2020

Corona: EU’s existential crisis
Cligendael, April 2020

The EU can emerge stronger from the pandemic if Merkel seizes the moment
European Council on Foreign Relations, April 2020

Beware Russian and Chinese positioning for after the pandemic
Chatham House, April 2020

How are China and Russia responding to and capitalizing on the coronavirus crisis
German Marshall Fund, April 2020

Covid-19 in Latin America: Political challenges, trials for health systems and economic uncertainty
Real Instituto Elcano, April 2020

Pandemic may replace the nation-state: But with what?
Atlantic Council, April 2020

The perils of more debt
Bruegel, April 2020

A joint effort to increase production of medical masks in Europe
Cligendael, April 2020

The coronavirus: A geopolitical earthquake
European Council on Foreign Relations, April 2020

Covid-19 brings human rights into focus
Chatham House, April 2020

Covid-19: Can the EU avoid an epidemic of authoritarianism?
Centre for European Reform, April 2020

China was slammed for initial Covid-19 secrecy, but its scientists led the way in tackling the virus
Egmont, April 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic and European security: Between damages and crises
Instituto Affari Internazionali, April 2020

Coronavirus in conflict zones: A sobering landscape
Carnegie Europe, April 2020

Covid-19: America’s looming election crisis
Chatham House, April 2020

Europe’s debate on fiscal policy: Too much yet too little
Centre for European Policy Studies, April 2020

Covid-19: The self-employed are hardest hit and least supported
Bruegel, April 2020

A proposal for a coronabond: The Pandemic Solidarity Instrument
Centre for European Reform, April 2020

Three implications of the corona crisis in Iran
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, April 2020

Boosting Europe’s resilience with better health systems: Lessons from the Covid-19 crisis
European Policy Centre, April 2020

Will SURE shield EU workers from the corona crisis?
Centre for European Policy Studies, April 2020

Social distancing: Did individuals act before governments?
Bruegel, April 2020

Anatomy of the coronavirus collapse
Brookings Institution, April 2020

Turkey preparing early release in response to crisis: Will political prisoners be excluded?
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, April 2020

EU trade in medical goods: Why self-sufficiency is the wrong approach
Bruegel, April 2020

What the coronavirus pandemic teaches us about fighting climate change
Council on Foreign Relations, April 2020

How is the Covid-19 crisis serving the EU?
European Policy Centre, April 2020

Lessons from Taiwan’s experience with Covid-19
Atlantic Council, April 2020

A green recovery
Bruegel, April 2020

A European approach to fund the coronavirus cost is in the interest of all
Bruegel, April 202

Covid-19 and the Iranian shadows of war
Chatham House, April 2020

Could the coronavirus change the way we think about health?
European Policy Centre, April 2020

The pandemic offers new opportunities for South African leadership in the region
Council on Foreign Relations, April 2020

Bouncing back again: How past crises can help Eastern Europe fight Covid-19
European Council on Foreign Relations, April 2020

Bojo’s Coronavirus fall out
Barcelona Institute for International Affairs, April 2020

The impact of the coronavirus on mortgage refinancings
Brookings Institution, April 2020

The refugee drama in Syria, Turkey, and Greece
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, April 2020

Don’t sacrifice democracy on the altar of public health
European Policy Centre, April 2020

Trouble for the EU is brewing in coronavirus-hit Italy
Centre for European Reform, April 2020

Defeating Covid-19 in Gaza: Is it enough?
European Council on Foreign Relations, April 2020

Coronavirus: Between the global and the national
Barcelona Institute for International Affairs, March 2020

Coronavirus: Infodemics and disinformation
Barcelona Institute for International Affairs, March 2020

Conflict and peace scenarios in times of Covid-19
Barcelona Institute for International Affairs, March 2020

Covid-19: Le prix de l’incurie
Institut français des relations internationales , March 2020


Read this briefing on ‘Coronavirus: Impact and challenges‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

Read all EPRS publications on the coronavirus outbreak


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