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Europe is currently not at war, despite Macron, Johnson and Trump usingthe term, and the European states are not at war with each other.Nevertheless, it is a time of international crisis.The reaction into it appears currently as follows: There are multiplenational responses by European states despite pleas for a more commonapproach. Also, experts have suddenly come back into fashion again. TheCovid-19 health crisis also leads to calling into question out currentstatus quo: Which jobs are relevant for our system and how should theybe rewarded? President Macron went even so far as to doubtneoliberalism. New possibilities arise as well: frequent home office,more teleworking etc.Our research project looks at expert behavior in a specific crisis,World War II, but as others have shown the experts in the postal andtelecommunications administrations have a tradition of fighting againstthe odds of non-coordinated or even hostile European states - they didso during World War I and would do so again during the cold war.So what can we learn from those experts? Maybe that it is more evidentto rely on one's own nation in times of crisis but that some problemswill remain international. It takes courage and perseverance to actdifferently and it is hard work to convince governments of the worth ofinternational cooperation in times of crisis. However, this might bebadly needed. Countries will need financial aid or will need to makedebts somewhere else, they will need medical supplies that theircountry can't produce on their own and experts will need to cooperate in order tobest treat the infected. And most importantly: If a cure is found, itneeds to be distributed quickly to the ones who need it most - and itshouldn't matter which nation they are from. (Sabrina Proschmann)