The United Nations will turn 80 on October 24th, immersed in its worst crisis. Not only because of the frontal attack staged on Tuesday by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, with a speech at the General Assembly where he accused him of all the evils and where it certified the distancing of the world's leading power from the multilateral system created after the Second World War. The crisis is also financial and one of resources, because Trump's drastic cuts have forced the Secretary General, António Guterres, to propose a 20% reduction in next year's budget, which will entail thousands of layoffs.

In an article published simultaneously by newspapers around the world, 24 heads of government - including Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, French Prime Minister Emanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel - call for a global anti-pandemic treaty. The leaders insist that covid-19 is the biggest challenge since the Second World War and recall that the question is not "whether there will be another health crisis, but when". They call for "building a stronger international health architecture that protects future generations".