SubjectEconomy and business
![Espectacle inaugural del Festival Grec 2020. © Edu Bayer / Ajuntament de Barcelona](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_debat_grec.jpg?itok=oIseCSyn)
Cancelling, postponing or rethinking. These are the options Barcelona’s cultural initiatives have had to decide between during the Covid-19 lockdown. Each project has chosen its own path...
![Il·lustració © Raquel Marín](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/dossier_1100x548_3.jpg?itok=SzMCOHpk)
The COVID-19 crisis has been an anthropological shock, in other words, a dreadful experience for millions of people that will be forever etched on their memories and that will...
![Il·lustració © Raquel Marín](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/dossier_1100x548_1.jpg?itok=qUtTUWAB)
Rather than thinking of the city as a doomed reality, as a certain catastrophic environmentalism does, we can see it as a yet-to-be fulfilled promise that the ecological transition can...
![Il·lustració © Raquel Marín](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/editorial_1100x548.jpg?itok=_rnRoV9z)
Times of crisis are also times of danger for democracy. Fear of the future can fuel the temptation to embrace an authoritarian response. What do we need to do to make democracy come out...
![Il·lustració © Laura Borràs Dalmau](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/sumari_2_1100x548.jpg?itok=_328JaRy)
It is not by chance that the pandemic has especially hit big cities like Barcelona. Open to the world, its power of attraction and connectivity have made the city more fragile. We must...
![Persones caminant entre les parades de llibres el dia de Sant Jordi del 2018. © Vicente Zambrano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/01_debat_portada_1100x548.jpg?itok=lM3JoNwu)
23 April 2020. Like every year, Sant Jordi [St. George] has to slay the dragon, but this year the story has taken a different path and the enemy has mutated into a virus that cannot be...
![Il·lustració © Laura Borràs Dalmau](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/07_barreiro_ilus_1100x548_8.jpg?itok=RBWpLU4U)
The coronavirus pandemic, despite the economic impact that many predict, will not generate a widespread crisis of disaffection such as the one triggered by the Great Recession if...
![Il·lustració © Laura Borràs Dalmau](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/03_innerarity_ilus_1100x548_6.jpg?itok=TwIyCdXK)
The coronavirus crisis will not mean the end of globalisation or of European integration, but an incentive to configure them differently. In the wake of crises there are lessons learned...
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