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Latvia's response to COVID19 crisis has helped to rein in the spread and find a way to build national identity

Latvia spots identity middle ground while keeping a lid on COVID19

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Latvia, a small country on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, has so far been one of the least affected by the virus. Foreign Policy is looking into the phenomenon. Here is my take-away from the article. It appears that a medical crisis has helped Latvia resolve its identity crisis and enhanced the public’s sense of safety, as well as the feeling that the national government cares about its citizens.

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A Stockholm bar open during COVID19 crisis

Post-lockdown Sweden healthier than the rest of Europe

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Slowly entering a post-lockdown phase, one starts to assess the costs of the antivirus measures. Sweden is expected to limit the damage its economy will inevitably suffer due to the post-COVID19 recession. The country is unique in Europe not only due to its “easy” lockdown but also because of some much more fundamental choices nearly impossible for most other countries to replicate.

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EUR 500bn package adopted, no coronavirus bond

EU finance ministers agree on EUR 500bn rescue package

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The hardest-hit member countries, businesses and people will get help. So decided the finance ministers on Thursday, 9 April. The half-trillion-euro deal will be channelled to the corona victims using three vehicles: the ESM, the EIB and a new employment initiative called “Sure”. The “coronavirus” bonds are still off the table.

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Corona distancing in Berlin on Palm Sunday 5 April 2020

Defy the panic, keep it safe and get back to normal soon

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One cannot defy a virus, but one can and must defy the panic and that standstill that is dragging us into a recession that will prove a much traumatic experience for a huge part of the society, eventually everyone. I hope that a week of good Easter weather will show that the spike in the spread of the virus has nothing to do with people willing to get back to normal.

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