Covid-19: US and EU, Why the Outbreak Could Induce an Institutional Evolution

Palermo, Carlo Maria

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“…. Such a situation contributed to creating harsh reactions in early affected countries (Palermo, 2020), fuelling the idea that the European Union could not intervene rapidly and effectively to support the Member States in need. Such posture exacerbated differences between the centre and periphery within the European Union and the Member States.…”

Section: The Health Legacy Of the Great Recession And Austeritymentioning

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“…Thus, coordination emerged as a primary need, particularly felt in most affected member States during the first wave of the Pandemic. Lack of solidarity has been considered, as we mentioned earlier also, a weakness of the European Union (Palermo, 2020; The National governments, in most of the case, had just Non-Pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the first and the second wave to try to slow the propagations of outbreaks in the continent. Thus, the NPIs (e.g.…”

Section: Covid-19: (Limited) Health Coordination In the Eumentioning

confidence: 99%

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The State of the Health (Dis)-Union in the EU: the legacy of austerity under the trial of Covid-19

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Palermo²

2021

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Covid-19 highlights the inadequacy of EU governance cross-border challenges, especially transnational health challenges, supporting the call for a Health Union. Health policy remains a near-exclusive national competence whose budget was heavily impacted by EU-driven austerity, especially in Southern Europe. The work provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the pandemic case evidencing the limits of the current governance framework and tabled reform proposals. The analysis contributes an extended understanding of the implications of the lack of an effective EU public health competence. We assess comparatively (austerity-induced) geographic heterogeneities in health-care preparedness, outbreak, crisis management and outcomes, delineating the extent to which inequalities remain in the absence of a Health Union. Findings evidence an empirically grounded case for sovereignty pooling in the core transnational domain of public health while providing a preliminary policy evaluation of the proposal for a Health Union.

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Section: The Health Legacy Of the Great Recession And Austeritymentioning

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The State of the Health (Dis)-Union in the EU: the legacy of austerity under the trial of Covid-19

Ceron

Palermo²

2021

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Covid-19 Response Models and Divergences Within the EU: A Health Dis-Union

Ceron

Palermo²,

Grechi

2021

Statistics, Politics and Policy

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The symmetric shock of the Covid-19 pandemic has come with heterogeneous consequences across the world. Within the common institutional framework of the European Union, the outbreak has put under extreme stress governance and interplay between the national and supranational level. Under some coordination, responses have remained largely in the hands and on the shoulders of the Member States. In this context, the article classifies pandemic outbreaks and responses along the containment and fiscal support dimensions to uncover whether a common model for Covid-19 crisis management arises across the EU27 or rather different policy choices patterns emerge within the continent. Based on indicators covering the three dimensions derived from the Oxford Covid Government response tracker, the John Hopkins CSSE Covid-19 database and the European Commission Autumn Forecasts, the paper employs hierarchical cluster analysis to uncover response group across countries and characterize them by the outbreak, containment and fiscal support strengths, delineating as well the geographical distribution across and within the clusters. The findings present the heterogeneity of response models, robust to alternative specifications and timeframes across the first and the second wave, deriving broader implications for the outlook for the vaccine-roll out and exit from the crisis. The dynamics in 2020 are also considered in the context of the shortcomings of supranational governance within the EU and the current policy reform debate, highlighting the high stakes for the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe. The contribution of the work is furthered by offering a systematic methodology and framework to study heterogeneities of pandemic responses within the EU paving the way for further analysis of contributing factors explaining decision-makers policy choices as well as performance concerning political, social and economic outcomes across the models.

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COVID-19, National Responses and NGEU: Uniting a Divided Europe?

Ceron

Cm²

2020

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Covid-19: US and EU, Why the Outbreak Could Induce an Institutional Evolution

Cited by 3 publications

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The State of the Health (Dis)-Union in the EU: the legacy of austerity under the trial of Covid-19

The State of the Health (Dis)-Union in the EU: the legacy of austerity under the trial of Covid-19

Covid-19 Response Models and Divergences Within the EU: A Health Dis-Union

COVID-19, National Responses and NGEU: Uniting a Divided Europe?

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