The European Union Solidarity in relation to COVID - 19 situation.

Abstract

This independent study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in European Studies Inter-Department of European Studies, Chulalongkorn University. This paper aim to study and examine the situation of the European Union Solidarity in relation to the Coronavirus or the Covid – 19 situations.

The outbreak of the corona virus or the COVID-19 crisis around the world, is something that no one has never expected to happen in this century, as there are currently infected people in 185 countries. According to nowadays, the European Union is one of the most successfully union in tern of economic, politics, solidarity and unity as one of the biggest group of country which are consisted of 27 member countries has cooperate with one another for 60 years and becoming one of the global player in the international affairs as well as play an significant role in the global market. In accordance with the situation of the Coronavirus or the Covid – 19 outbreaks. The situation of the epidemic of the corona virus in Europe is of great concern and severe. In a nutshell, the top 10th countries of world's which have highly cases of the Coronavirus are members of the European Union which are Spain rank as number 4th , Italy rank as number 6th, France as 7th and Germany as number 8th as according to the information on May, 21th 2020.However, the European Union is providing all necessary steps to it member states in order to providing guidance, collaboration to solve the problem and to show the European solidarity and unity of the member countries, even before they were have a difficult situation during the Brexit which shaking the European solidarity but since the past month of June, the number of new cases of Covid -19 infections has decreased. Therefore, the European Union and its member countries are actively working together giving emphasize to this situation and alleviate the economic and social impact of the epidemic period, maintain work and not given up from any work in this situation.