In the 1970s the neocorporatist theory of interest representation was presented as an alternative to plural-ism in a historical phase where several factors of political crisis were particularly considerable. In the following decades, this vision of policy-making went through different vicissitudes, but nevertheless remained in political debates due to the experiences of those political systems where it was applied more or less regularly. In the framework of the current health and economic emergency caused by the spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus, in several European and extra-European countries governments and economic interest organisations joined forces for the design and implementation of emergency policy initiatives. This paper considers the application of the tripartite approach in the EU countries, according to the currently available data (end of October 2020). Apparently, the neocorporatist approach proved useful since there was a remarkable resort to concertation. On the other side, the persisting emergency and the uncertain social and economic prospects only lead to momentarily partial conclusions.
