Research Director at Institut Montaigne, Nicolas Bauquet has been keeping a close eye on the French government’s management of the Covid-19 crisis. At a time when the French people and the public authorities fear a second wave, and even a new lockdown, Nicolas Bauquet evaluates how government...

Francesca Colombo, Head of the Health Division at the OECD took part in the webinar "OECD Health Systems in the face of Covid-19: How did they deal with the emergency and how do they prepare for the aftermath" organised by the Institut Montaigne on June 9. She discussed the management of the...

One might have initially hoped that the South American continent would be spared from the coronavirus. The reality is nothing of the sort. The epidemic is wreaking havoc, which is exacerbated by the poverty of the population. The populist profile of many of the continent’s leaders, starting with...

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed some critical vulnerabilities in the production and supply chains the EU relies on. The first vulnerability is strategic: that of excessive dependence on China in sectors critical to the health and wellbeing of the EU’s population. This point was crystallized by...

The Covid-19 crisis has driven a discussion around the need to diversify European supply chains. Given that the EU is reliant on China and wider Asia for much of its production, arguments abound for increasing the resilience of these supply chains by increasing their diversity. Specifically,...

The coronavirus crisis marks a great comeback of the European Union Member States. Faced with a pandemic for which it was unprepared, the European Union chose to take a step back. The suspension of budgetary rules and competition law, the re-establishment of borders and the suspension of the main...

Different sectors of the labor market are experiencing varying degrees of impact in the Covid-19 economic crisis. Some of these differences can be observed along gender lines, with women occupying major parts of the tourism and service industry. What is the extent of the gender gap in this crisis?...

In his essay “Is It Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe?”, political scientist Ivan Krastev analyses a paradoxical world emerging from the Covid-19 crisis and structured around a new power dynamic. How to analyse the European response to the crisis? And what lessons can be learnt for...

In his new policy brief: From slowdown to lockdown, India’s economy and the Covid-19 shock, Christophe Jaffrelot assesses the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the Indian economy. He argues that the lockdowns are aggravating the slowdown that India was already experiencing as a result of...

The United Kingdom has taken a singular approach to deal with the coronavirus crisis. How did the British public experience it? What were the consequences for the government and the National Health Service (NHS)? Georgina Wright, Senior Researcher on the Brexit team at the Institute for Government,...

The coronavirus crisis has forced countries to make hasty transformations to their educational methods, including closing schools and implementing distance learning. While some States started this digital shift long ago, others had to rapidly implement tools to best meet the needs of both students...

After months in the shadow, the European Union is finally back at the forefront. In order to allow the European economy to bounce back, the European Commission presented a recovery plan of 750 billion euros. An unprecedented proposal that could not have emerged without the support of the German...

Institut Montaigne hosted a webinar on May 7, in which Dr Janet Yellen, Chair of the Federal Reserve Board from 2014 to 2018, in conversation with Eric Chaney, Economic Advisor to Institut Montaigne, discussed economic observations during the crisis of Covid-19. The following article presents the...

Timeline February 4: First coronavirus case confirmed in Belgium. It's a woman who is one of nine Belgians returning from the city of Wuhan in China. March 11: First three coronavirus-related deaths reported in the country. The WHO declares a "global pandemic". March 12: The federal...

The spread of the epidemic has generated fear in our societies, which have become remarkably vulnerable in the face of the virus. But Dominique Moïsi reckons that another sentiment could take over: that of public anger. This anger is all the more toxic because it draws on resentments that, fueled...

Several debates on the StopCovid digital tracking application have taken up a lot of space in French press columns in recent weeks. Although the application should be available at the beginning of June, a new system has been built in parallel: the manual monitoring of infected persons through...

With nearly 6,500 cases reported as of May 13, Morocco is the third African country most affected by Covid-19. Considered a model of Covid-19 crisis management, especially by its neighbours, Morocco has not spared any resources in dealing with the crisis, especially financial ones. While the total...

Special Advisor to Institut Montaigne, Francis Vérillaud did a virtual "Tour de France" of universities to see how they fulfilled their mission during the health crisis we are going through. This tour had four stops: the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), the University Savoie-Mont...

The fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which strikes countries irrespective of their ideological or economic positions, could have been an opportunity to bring together yesterday's enemies – China and the United States in particular – in a common fight against the disease. However, that is...

Timeline February 26: The first case of coronavirus is detected in the north of Greece, in Thessaloniki, where a woman returning from Milan is quarantined. A few days later, in the northern city of Kastoria, which is known for its fur industry, two individuals who had attended an exhibition...