Pandemia economică" sau schimbarea regulii neintervenționismului statului în vederea continuării afacerii

Throughout history, there have been many discussions about the manner of State intervention in capitalist economies, namely pure liberalism (and non-intervention of the State) or State interference, in order to harmonize particular interests with the general interest. Romania has adopted a series of measures regarding the economic, financial, and social consequences of the spread of COVID-19, including by granting a number of incentives, most of them temporary, to protect the business environment. Days and months of health uncertainty coincided with legislative acts and measures adopted with unprecedented rapidity - which was sometimes contested, sometimes sought for. The economic pandemic has therefore been doubled by a legislative "pandemic": from labour law measures, to major implications in litigation, from State aid measures and schemes in favour of businesses and individuals to technical unemployment and days off, from regulations on force majeure to establishing new rules for the protection of small and medium-sized enterprises. Whether or not rapid interventions and legislative solutions were the most appropriate, whether the degree of State intervention will persist even after the end of the health crisis, or whether other measures will be needed to restore economic realities are just a few legitimate questions on which the thoughts of the participants in the civil circuit focus. Certain measures taken during the state of emergency or during the state of alert could survive and, in addition, other new measures inspired by the realities brought to the forefront by the pandemic could be considered by lex ferenda.