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I'm at a loss to understand how an organisation that has no medical infrastructure, personnel, equipment, expertise or role was supposed to provide contingent or actual response to a pandemic.
I’m talking about the EU. What was the EU supposed to do for Italy and Spain? The EU is no more responsible for health services in Italy and Spain than it is for the NHS in the UK.
What makes you think the disaster in Italy is the EU's fault, or the EU could have prevented it?
The EU has no role in driving ambulances. It's no more repsonsible for ambulance drivers in Italy than it is for ambulance drivers in the UK.
There have been multiple pandemics while the EU has existed: crises and pandemic response are not unprecedented.
Everyone is overwhelmed, true. That the EU hasn't had a unified response? Definitely true. Whether the EU has any 'fault' in hindering response may be debatable.
Everyone is overwhelmed, true. That the EU hasn't had a unified response? Definitely true. Whether the EU has any 'fault' in hindering response may be debatable.
But what about the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918? It's all the EU's fault!
I wish to have an EU that acted with more solidarity but there’s a fire all over Europe and everyone is trying to contain theirs. We already saw the “solidarity” some EU countries showed when we had the refugee crisis
The EU is not doing nothing. French and Italian COVID-19 patients flown to Germany via trains, helicopters and airplanes, since they do still have empty beds. Austria, France and Germany have also sent millions of face masks to Italy as well as protective suits.
