The coronavirus is not only spreading but also infecting societies with a sense of insecurity, fear and fragmentation. Confronting a virus that respects no borders, this modern Europe without borders is building them everywhere. “The paradox of a virus that knows no borders is that the solution requires borders, not just between countries but within them,” said Nathalie Tocci, an adviser to the European Union. “It is now the individual you fear,” Krastev said. “Today,” he said, “the dominating emotion is fear.”“The crisis of COVID-19 is adding uncertainty to uncertainty, fear upon fear, accelerating a process of anxiety about a world that is moving too fast,” Moïsi said, referring to the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Source: bd News24 March 16, 2020 05:15 UTC