After the “Second World War”, there has been a general will to found International Organizations having the goal of maintaining a world balance and averting new wars with an uncertain (but certainly inauspicious) outcome for the whole of humanity!
This goal is today being pursued by almost all the States, especially by the Western ones.
Therefore, starting from those years, most of the States have aimed to manage international relations with greater reasonableness and propensity to agree (whenever possible), trying to avoid any form of armed conflict that could degenerate into a total war with an uncertain and anything but predictable outcome.
Nevertheless, there were crises among States, there still are, and there will probably be in the future as well, but all in all things (almost always) get resolved for the best so as to preserve that much desired and precious “status quo” achieved up to now.
Crises occur because the economic, cultural, linguistic, religious, and development diversity makes the World a heterogeneous community which however seeks to share common ideas with the aim of creating well-being and prosperity for peoples and for future generations in every single State.
This can generate conflicts or fractures!
However, the possibility to witness profound international crises, which may cause the rupture of the equilibrium reached or even total wars, is decreasing more and more as they would have led to a real separation among States or from International Bodies through which these balances are maintained.
One of the cases in which this is happening is just the difficult pandemic condition we are experiencing.
This is because in situations of extreme danger (which threaten human life) every State tends to protect its own population, thus affirming a principle of independence and one-sidedness that undermines the foundations of the efforts made to create International Organizations which had the task of managing these inauspicious international contingencies in the best possible way, such as: the European Union.
The blocking of flights, the closure of borders, the limitation to travel, the reduction of imports, and all the other restrictive actions (which we witnessed during the first period of the pandemic phase) were almost all of them unilaterally implemented by every single State; without any kind of interaction or joint intervention plan coordinated with other States and without any kind of agreement arising from International Bodies such as the European Union, thus acting only in defense of its own people and nation.
And when the problem affects several States, the situation may even get worse!
Continuing divergences on the actions to be taken, on the time required, on the funds to be used, and on the other plans to be implemented mean that in the end every State acts independently.
In a nutshell: every State does what it wants!
Thence, if every State does what it wants or what it sees fit for the well-being and prosperity of their people, a question arises: what is the meaning of the Institutions, Bodies, and International Organizations…?
What is the meaning of the European Union…?
It is just in these difficult international contingencies that all the strength, capacity, and will of this Organization should be brought out so that things could be resolved for the best for the entire European population and not only for the individual member State.
Instead, just in this difficult international contingency, we realized that the European Union has proved weak and fragmented in solving common problems of enormous gravity. Every State has made its own interest… and this is not the spirit which Europe was founded with.
Therefore, when sooner or later this calamity will be part of the past, it will be necessary to rethink the values and spirit which the European Union was founded with, in order to address any upcoming calamities with greater effectiveness and collectivity; because if this time Europe has managed to overcome the abyss by a hair’s breadth, next time we may not have a Europe to discuss on!
