For Europeans, awareness has been slow.
In early March 2020, Rome's desperate call for help was ignored.
Then everything accelerated, under the sign of improvisation and urgency, before efforts to act collectively emerge.
Good intentions have been undermined by each new wave of contagion.
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Among the freedoms that were thought to be untouchable, free movement has been particularly eroded.
Within days, the 27 had curled up on themselves.
At the end of March, the Union's internal borders were closed, blocking trucks for miles and emptying supermarket shelves.
In addition, there are struggles to get masks, gloves, gowns and respirators out of stock.
The German decision to ban exports was a shock.
It is not
"a glorious hour for the Union"
, sums up Guntram Wolff, director of the Bruegel think-tank.
"We quickly adapted, while we were starting from zero",
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