The Great Lockdown and the Sustainability of the European Socioeconomic Project

Dr. Ivan Rubinić is a postdoctoral researcher in European integration at Studio Europa Maastricht, Maastricht University.

This lecture’s principal purpose is charting the route towards a sustainable European integration through the lessons drawn from the nexus between the cross-country COVID-19 pandemic response effectiveness and the economic inequalities. The lecturer will provide a compelling framework supporting the progressive idea of European unity by showing that the existing inequalities contradict the implementation of the admirable European values of equality, solidarity, and cohesion. The lecture will demonstrate that the COVID pandemic mandates abandoning nation-centred decision-making and demands rethinking European values in a conceptual and practical sense.

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Working on Europe YUFE Academy is a series of student-based, research-centred lectures jointly organised by the Maastricht University and Studio Europa Maastricht under the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) alliance.