Abstract:

The public health crisis is also a socio-economic crisis, showing deep inequalities between people in different areas of life. It particularly highlighted the weakness of health and social security systems. What's more, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the virus is cross-border and we are all treated equally regardless of gender, race or religion. The priority is global, international solidarity as a sine qua non for an effective response to the threats generated by the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the Council Of Europe (CE) goes far beyond the area of merely providing an abstract European constitutional identity and alerting when Member States seem to depart from it significantly. The activities of the CE also include promoting the convergence of legal systems relating to respect for human rights, which at the same time set another key goal, namely, the direction towards the implementation of human rights standards e.g. in medicine and other sphere.