The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented legal challenges to the EU institutions and to the EU Member States. On the first anniversary of the pandemic, the European legal space is immersed in a process of profound reflection and envisaging a redesign of some of its core features, reaching from fundamental principles and values such as the rule of law or solidarity, to sector specific elements related to the Economic and Monetary Union, health and risk regulation, and State aid control.
This book looks at the EU’s legal response to the pandemic across a wide spectrum of areas of law. Structured into 35 chapters written by leading legal experts from the EU institutional and academic landscape, it offers a narrative of the evolution, scope, and spirit of the EU’s approach to a crisis like no other in the history of European integration. It thus provides for a comprehensive overview of the legal dimension of the COVID-19 crisis in the unique supranational arena of the EU that can be of interest to policymakers, practitioners, and academics in Europe and beyond.