Impact of pandemics and war in EU’s cohesion policy:problematics and challenges

The impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine, as another external shock, in EU’s economy and society is clearly high. It arrived just when another external shock (the convid-19 pandemic) was getting absorbed and overcome. This research frames this war in an historic evolution of multiple political factors in Europe and then characterizes the consequences of this external shock. Then an analysis of the degree of asymmetry in the distribution of those impacts across the EU regions is made and a framework for the following years is proposed: the quadruple transition. The paper finishes with an assessment of how these four transitions are assuming different paces in different EU regions, calling for an intervention of EU’s cohesion policy.