http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200409-153015-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/from-one-state-of-emergency-to-another-emergency-powers-in-france/ From One State of Emergency to Another – Emergency Powers in France Platon, Sébastien eng 2020-04-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus COVID 19 emergency powers France Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 2 years and less than 5 months after the end of the two-year state of emergency triggered on the wake of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, a brand new “state of health emergency” was activated in France on the 23rd March to cope with a new attack led, this time, by a small and invisible enemy, Covid-19. The so-called “state of health emergency” currently constitutes the legal framework and basis of the measures in force to cope with the epidemic, including nationwide lockdown. What is this new regime? Is it a threat to individual freedoms? What are its limits and guarantees? Was it legally necessary?