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4 November 2024
Central Europe has been through an eventful and not very uplifting week. Whereas the immediate risks related to COVID-19 are better understood, long-term economic risks and hidden threats also warrant attention.
To keep up the appearance of normalcy in the Visegrad Group countries has become an increasingly difficult task, as elsewhere in Europe. The picture of Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová and the newly appointed government led by Igor Matovič was perhaps most striking in its conveyance of the current state of affairs in the fight against the coronavirus.
With a plethora of restrictions in place, measures which keep the majority of Central European citizens at home, also images of deserted streets and squares have become commonplace.
With the depths of the COVID-19 crisis yet fully within our grasp, both the impact and the duration of far-reaching interventions in our daily life remain hard to predict.