"The world will be completely different after the pandemic, and we're yet to see how different"

Photo: Tanjug/Sava Radovanovic

The world will be a truly different place after the coronavirus pandemic, and how different, we are yet to see, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today, stressing that not everything is over yet and that the health and economic fight will still be fought internationally.

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"I think that these will be dramatic changes and that they will be reflected in whether the world continues with globalism or not and whether multilateralism survives and in what form. Also, what role will certain countries play as leaders of a new world order," Brnabic said at the international conference "World After Coronavirus" held within the "Belgrade Strategic Dialogue" initiative.

Brnabic pointed out that we have seen those changes in international relations, but they are happening now and are not over.

"We still don't live in the post-coronavirus world and the virus is still present, the world is still fighting against it and a lot of time will pass before we will see what the world will look like geopolitically after coronavirus. We will wait for a period of economic recovery," Brnabic added.

She stated that there are two most important topics, first, whether there will be a second wave, how we will fight and prepare for it and what life will look like until a vaccine is found, while the second topic is economic recovery.

That will further determine what the world will look like, Brnabic added.

Photo: Tanjug/Sava Radovanovic

"It was curious to me how quickly the EU countries reestablished their borders within just a few days, and each country began to fight individually for its safety and its citizens. The European continent changed almost in a day," said Brnabic, noting that the EU countries were under great pressure and had a lot of victims.

She said that after that, Europe started to return to its old ways, but that she thinks changes are yet to be seen in the coming period regarding that issue.

Brnabic stressed that Serbia was more emotionally than materially affected by EU's decision to close its borders for export of medical equipment, and that this was certainly a signal that will be heard for some time in this area, in those countries that want to become EU members.

As she said, it was not the happiest time for making more politically thoughtful decisions, but it was necessary to take into account what kind of signal was being sent to the countries that want to join the EU.

The ambassadors of China and Russia, Chen Bo and Aleksandr Botsan Kharachenko, also participated in the panel dedicated to geopolitical consequences of the pandemic.

(Telegraf.rs)