Neither widespread popular disaffection with the government nor equally widespread disenchantment with the European Union have helped Vox advance in the polls.
Knee-jerk reactions to Romanians returning home reflect broader processes of social distancing, set in motion long before the virus appeared on the scene.
As the Italian case suggests, addressing the democratic deficit of European institutions is critical if we are to prevent this crisis from forging the end of the European Union. Español
Covid-19 needs to be remembered, not as a new crisis, but as part of a long trajectory of failure to recognise the extraordinary biological precariousness of political and social life.
