Coronavirus Reveals Cracks in European Unity
... times of crisis, Europe’s bureaucratic machinery is painfully slow. These three examples are only the latest to prove that the European Union does not stand as united as it likes to believe. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said, " We didn't need ... ... but, truthfully, they have been there from the start and have been widening since then. A History of Discord Ivan Timofeev: COVID-19: Toward New Forms of Social Organisation? A more historic example of discrepancy in unity was the preferential treatment of the United Kingdom in terms of their financial contributions to the EU budget. The so-called “UK Rebate,” active from 1985 to ...