Due to its borderless nature, COVID-19 has been a matter of common European interest since its very first detection on the continent. Yet this pandemic outbreak has largely been handled as an essentially national matter. Member States adopted their own different, uncoordinated and at times competing national responses according to their distinctive risk analysis frameworks, with little regard1 for the scientific and management advice provided by the European Union (EU), notably its dedicated legal framework for action on cross-border health threats.2 To justify such an outcome as the inevitable consequence of the EU’s limited competence in public health is a well-rehearsed yet largely inaccurate argument3 that calls for closer scrutiny.

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欧洲对 COVID-19 的反应：从监管模拟到监管协调？

由于其无国界性质，自在欧洲大陆首次发现 COVID-19 以来，它一直是欧洲共同关心的问题。然而，这场大流行病的爆发在很大程度上已被视为基本的国家事务。会员国根据其独特的风险分析框架采取了各自不同、不协调、有时相互竞争的国家应对措施，很少考虑1欧盟 (EU) 提供的科学和管理建议，特别是其针对跨境健康威胁采取行动的专门法律框架。2将这样的结果证明为欧盟在公共卫生方面能力有限的必然结果是一个经过充分演练但在很大程度上不准确的论点3这需要更仔细的审查。