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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12486

14 May 2020
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BEACONS
BEACONS: Infected – the European Commission’s cartoon strip that predicted almost everything

Infected is the title of a cartoon strip dreamt up in 2011 by the European Commission. Its aim was twofold: firstly, to explain the concept of a pandemic, with the potential damage it can cause, to a broad public of adolescents. And secondly, to show that at international level, multilateralism can help to stamp out these increasingly common phenomena.

Its authors compare Infected to Contagion, a hit film made in the same year. Unlike Steven Soderbergh’s Hollywood blockbuster, the scale of...

Contents

BEACONS
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
SECTORAL POLICIES
ECONOMY
EXTERNAL ACTION
SECURITY - DEFENCE
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
NEWS BRIEFS