World Transformation After the COVID-19 Pandemic: The European Context

The regularities of the cyclical occurrence of infectious disease pandemics were studied using the examples of successive emergence of four pandemics in the early twenty-first century: coronavirus SARS-CoV, Swine flu, Ebola and coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) which occurred over the past 20 years. Their impact on the development of the world economy and global society was studied. The negative consequences of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy and international business are analyzed. An attempt has been made to predict the transformation of the World and Europe after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the pandemic will destroy the old sectors of the economy, which are based on low-skilled labor and low technology. Six new sectors of the world economy that might be in demand by the world community and may have a rapid development are analyzed. New opportunities have been discovered for some sectors of the world economy, which have received a significant impetus for development, based on the new demands of people and business, in particular, in the organic food industry, teleworking technologies, medical diagnostics, distance learning, distance business and other areas.