ABSTRACT
The Visegrad Group countries, in addition to the problems related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which are universal in nature, are more susceptible to breaking and circumventing the applicable law, because they experience an increased number of irregularities and abuses of power related to the current level of socio-economic development, and governments, due to political connotations, have a greater tendency to manage through restrictions, and the effects of the pandemic will be more profound than in other EU countries. In the case of the analysed Visegrad Group (V4), however, they are of a limited nature and consist primarily in coordinating and organising cooperation in the most important ad hoc problems resulting mainly from difficulties in the flow of people, services and goods in connection with the pandemic and cross-border cooperation. They complement actions carried out mainly at the EU level in the field of border management and strengthening cooperation between health services between its Member States. The phenomenon of the politicisation of the pandemic found its dimension in initiating institutional transformations by governments (normative, structural, related to the organisation) of the state apparatus, introducing legal solutions favourable to ruling parties and eroding the democratic system.
