nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200421-182602-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200421s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200421-182602-0 doi eng 342 23 Ganty, Sarah Author aut Belgium and COVID-19: When a Health Crisis Replaces a Political Crisis Ganty, Sarah Verfassungsblog 2020-04-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The COVID-19 health crisis is happening in the context of a political crisis in Belgium. As the virus was spreading in the EU in early March, political parties were still negotiating the formation of a federal government. The need to provide a unified and strong answer to the situation added another layer to the political crisis and seems to have put the main political disagreements on the backburner. Even though, many institutional and constitutional challenges have been solved without considerably affecting basic democratic principles. This is not true when it comes to fundamental rights, especially fundamental rights of vulnerable groups such as migrants and prisoners, female victims of violence etc. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Belgium Coronavirus COVID 19 emergency powers Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/belgium-and-covid-19-when-a-health-crisis-replaces-a-political-crisis/ raw object