Firstly, let us pay tribute to the 75,000 people who have died and been laid to rest during social distancing, to the carers working tirelessly behind the scenes and those looking for solutions – all of them Europeans!
The major epidemics, including the infamous Black Death in the 14th century, are engraved in Europe’s collective memory. Some of them have had a greater influence on the course of history than certain wars. But it is now more than a century since our continent has seen...