Paris, 18 September 2021
This year we have had to deal with the continuing crisis of COVID 19 under difficult conditions for our multilateral meeting, which had to be organised by videoconference.
Our 21st multilateral meeting took place on 18 September 2021 on "Confronting COVID 19: a European challenge", with two successive sessions.
The first was a comparative look at European policies on COVID, and the second looked at the prospects for a Europe of health. After a welcome address by Jean-Paul Doguet, we heard contributions from Mark Patterson, Stavros Vardalas and Jean-Paul Doguet on the respective policies in Great Britain (Brexit and Covid 19), Greece and France, since the Finnish speaker withdrew at the last minute.
In the afternoon, we had a long presentation by Jessica Chamba (MEF) on "Towards a European health policy", followed by Sylvain Kahn (Sciences-Po Paris) on "The challenges of a Europe of vaccines", with questions.
I have to say that I found this first experience a little disappointing, partly because I hadn't yet mastered the video-seminar tool very well, particularly as regards simultaneous translation.
