Its spread, analysts and experts say, may be a decisive moment in the fervid debates over how much the world integrates or separates. Among all the challenges to globalisation, many of them political or ideological, this virus may be different. “But this virus has put forward all these questions about the interconnectedness of the world as we’ve built it. The spread of the deadly epidemic to Europe’s fourth-largest economy has heightened fears of disruption in the global supply chain. But the spread of the virus to Europe will also have a significant impact on politics, likely boosting the anti-immigrant, anti-globalisation far right, Tilford said.

Source: bd News24 February 26, 2020 13:18 UTC