Op-ed: EU faces historic test of relevance as 70th anniversary takes place during pandemic
, the project that was launched to end centuries of war is in an existential struggle with a pathogen that knows no borders.
What is not well enough understood even by Europeans, let alone by Americans, are the global perils in a weaker and more vulnerable European Union. With a major power competition heating up between the United States and China, alongside a systemic struggle between authoritarian and democratic forms of government, how the European Union emerges from its Covid-19 challenges could be of decisive significance for world democracies.
It was a cruel irony that in this anniversary week the German Constitutional Court would conjure up a new, fundamental challenge to the European Union. The judges put the European Central Bank on notice, arguing that the ECB had failed to conduct a "proportionality assessment" of bond buying to ensure "economic and fiscal effects" didn't exceed the bank's mandate and outweigh other policy objectives.
However, the specifics of the German court's ruling aren't as significant as the signal they send to other European countries looking to challenge the authority of EU institutions. The decision comes against the current European background music, heard particularly in Italy and Spain, where European solidarity has been lacking in the virus fight.
Although the European Union has been slow to move, this week brought encouraging news of new momentum, including what The Economista $3.3 billion commitment to help countries of the Western Balkans fight the pandemic, at a time when concerns were growing several countries were more closely aligning themselves with Russia and an increasingly assertive and generous China.said
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