‘What are the main features and consequences of the current health crisis, what has been our response to it and what lessons should the international community draw from it?’
Introduction: Start with a reference to a recent event or statement of
importance relating to the question. For example:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/ten-covid19-lessons-from-the-pandemic-ipsos/
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/02/08/who-covid-treaty-pandemic-preparedness/6686628001/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/covid19-top-news-omicron-coronavirus-8-february-2022/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/3-keys-to-a-resilient-post-pandemic-recovery/
Line of argument: this essay will
argue first that the current pandemic has shown that the world was poorly prepared
for such an event, though there had been warnings from the WHO and other authoritative
bodies. So there is a lesson for the world community to learn. Moreover, this
crisis has demonstrated the need for international cooperation in dealing effectively
with a major shared challenge, from sharing data to policy development, to
public/private collaboration to research and produce not one but a series of
possible vaccines and treatments. Hopefully, this will encourage states to be
more aware of the need to work together and more willing to cooperate in other
fields, such as dealing with migration and climate change.
Give a brief outline of the nature, evolution, spread, scale of the
pandemic in its first phase and the lack of preparedness, focusing on Italy and
Europe and providing a few facts and figures and a timeline. By looking at the
first wave explain why the Italian government decided to impose a national
lockdown
The economic and social impact, consequences and costs of the Covid-19
pandemic and the lockdown, globally and
in Italy and the EU, using a few figures and estimates
from Italian institutions (e.g. the Bank of Italy), EU institutions and
international organizations like the WTO, WB etc… / the acceleration of society’s
transition to using more IT and smart working / impact on developing world and
SDGs – see links below.
The summer of 2020 and then the second wave in autumn / the change of
strategy and the rationale for that strategy / the development of a vaccine /2021/the
current situation and strategy in 2022 / lessons to be learnt from all of this,
public transparency, decision-making, inequalities, successes and failures.
The EU recovery
plan – NextGenerationEU, and the Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e
Resilienza, The National Recovery and Resilience
Plan (NRRP)
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_en
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Nazionale_di_Ripresa_e_Resilienza
https://www.mef.gov.it/en/focus/The-National-Recovery-and-Resilience-Plan-NRRP/
and current economic outlook
https://www.bancaditalia.it/media/notizia/economic-bulletin-no-1-2022/
Argue that
the NextGenerationEU plan could be a model for and a first step towards greater
international cooperation and EU integration.
Conclusion: Thus, given what we have said above, it seems clear that when
necessary, and sufficiently scared and motivated, both the international
community and the EU are capable of moving from purely national strategies to a
collective one involving rapid developments in terms greater and more effective
cooperation. The real lesson is that we need to move from cooperation on a
mainly ad hoc basis towards a permanent framework for a collaborative approach
to global challenges. And we need truly global strategies, not strategies geared
purely to the needs and capabilities of developed economies.
Maybe finish with another reference to a recent event or statement of
importance related to the topic. For example, on a positive note:
The extremely negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
on the SDGs (obviously, much less optimistic)
https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal1
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/hunger/
https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal3
https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/goal-of-the-month/
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2022/01/25/world-economic-outlook-update-january-2022
https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un_framework_report_on_covid-19.pdf
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/11/1077542
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