Albania Is in Real Danger of Lasting Authoritarianism after Coronavirus Crisis From: Altin Gjeta 04-05-2020 at 19:33 The western world is facing one of the biggest health crises in a generation since the COVID-19 spread rapidly in Europe and the US from Wuhan in China. The speed of transmission of the infection, the immediate and threatening consequences on human wellbeing and implications it is bringing to the economy as well as social life have brought to the attention of commentators, researchers and the public the role of the state in society. This is partly due to the fact that the virus seems to have struck with an unprecedented force the ‘white’, ‘civilized’ and developed world in terms of the political system, knowledge, wealth and technology it possesses, where life is conceived as an absolute privilege. In unprecedented move since the end of World War II, fashion catwalks and ringing cathedrals in Milan and Rome were closed, museums, subways and buz...
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