75. The positive effects of lockdown keep on coming
I’ve
already written about positive effects of lockdown in several previous posts.
This doesn’t mean I regard it as positive, but all cloud has a silver lining,
as the saying goes. In the last few days, I have noticed yet another one. As a
result of lockdown, presential meetings are not possible in many institutions
which conduct their business that way. One of these is the EU. The consequence,
in this case, is that, as presential meetings are not possible, decision makers
negotiate and discuss on a daily basis, whilst in normal times they would have
waited for their next big scheduled summit, in which they then would frequently
run out of time to reach agreement, as starting positions would be too
disparate. Not so nowadays. Online meetings progress faster, without
procrastination for the preferred face to face. The result? A huge, ambitious
and strategic Recovery Fund, of unprecedented proportions, delivered and agreed
in record time. Some processes gain productivity through lockdown
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