“We believe that capitalism bears within itself the [(viral?)] germs of its own destruction, but not in the sense that Marx thought“, this quote comes from Schumpeter in 1919 in his writings on the “sociology of imperialism”. Indeed, if we think of the EU as a regional empire, then we can understand the hidden interests that have underpinned its “neighborhood” policy on health since the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Alain Supiot, this pandemic crisis reveals the “decrepitude” of public health services because of neoliberal policies in Europe and the whole world. In order to fill these gaps in healthcare in “peripheral” countries that threaten the European market, the “EU for…