More than 400 intellectuals from all over Europe published, on 14 March, an appeal to be signed by all citizens (www.cesue.eu/en/appeal.html) calling for a European response to the threat posed by the coronavirus.
"We call on the European Commission and Parliament to propose, and on national governments to adopt, the following urgent measures, using the Lisbon Treaty ‘passerelle’ clause": - make public health and the fight against epidemics a shared competence of the Union, subject to...