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COVID-19 and the Future of Liberal Democracy

Date

16 Apr 2020 15:30 to 16:30

Address

  ONLINE
Belgium

Section

InfoSociety

Event Description

Livestreaming will be available on our Facebook page, click here to join us online.

This online event aims to look at how the pandemic is changing the relationship between governmental authorities and citizens in Europe and beyond. Governments all over the planet are adopting intrusive and restrictive measures, including the use of advanced technologies to track and control their population. They are encountering little resistance and even a fair degree of social consensus in the process. The example of ruthlessly effective authoritarian regimes such as China risks becoming more alluring and increasing divides within the EU. As often in the past, a potential trade-off between national health and security on the one hand, and civic and individual freedoms, on the other hand, is becoming evident. Does this pandemic herald far-reaching changes in the nature of our political systems? Will it result in permanent restrictions of some individual and civic freedoms and encourage more invasive forms of governmental control? How should we assess developments so far and how will our social contract look like in the post-pandemic era?

 

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