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STATUS QUO:

During a Pandemic, ‚How Are You?‘
is a Bad Question

Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly
with regard to social, political or economical issues. It is part of the diplomatic
language. In the STATUS QUO chapter, we will look through statistics, graphs
and eyewitness contributions at how the situation is, the STATUS QUO in
different countries of the world.

Martina Dlabajová
is a Czech businesswoman, international consultant, former
president of the Regional Chamber of Commerce of the Zlín
Region (2012 – 2014) and since 2014 Member of the European
Parliament. She is also a wine lover. In the past she founded
and managed several companies in the Czech Republic, Slovak
Republic and Italy. One of them was focused on wine imports.

IN VINO VERITAS the COVID-19 pandemic in the beginning of
I have always admired winemakers having last year and had not started to dictate all its
a close relation to them. The history of their operations in the following twelve months at
trade is several thousand years long and it has least, European winemakers’ lives would not
always deserved esteem and respect. It is a fair have been a bed of roses anyway and eve-
and lovely trade which, however, apart from ry day would have brought them something
devotion, also requires proper knowledge, they would have had to deal with. Growers of
skills and often also a great deal of determina- varieties of which Spanish cava is made could
tion, endurance and persistence. tell a lot about it as they lost two thirds of their
Even if the world had not been affected by harvest last year. Their grapes were fatally
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