With the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, Poland passed to the next stage of the global sanitary crisis. In the era of pandemics, after the presidential elections, numerous political crises, a na-tional lockdown, demonstrations against restrictions in access to abortion, and the start of vac-cinations against COVID-19, the issue of trust between the institutions of the state – including the European Union – and the society, became an important element of the construction of the post-COVID reality. Is a crisis of confidence a sign of weakness of democratic values in both state and European institutions? Will the institutional inability of the state to govern lead Poland to a crisis of trust? Does the Polish media discourse reflect this crisis of trust? The leading research method used while preparing this text was discourse analysis. In the conclusion the authors diagnose the current situation: polarization of the Polish media, fueled with many years of political, social and moral conflicts, further increased by the COVID-19, and point to the need to build a strong and uncompromising trust between the Polish society and its political leaders.

The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down life cycle of all economic sectors. The health sector was and hopefully is one of the faster-growing sectors in the world economy. The main aim of this paper is to present the theoretical aspects of the effect of pandemic on health sector and to analyse the affected international capital flows impact on European Union Member States digital health services. 
During the investigation, the broad studies on international capital flows, pandemics, and impact on  digital health services were analysed. European Union Member States indicators reflecting digital health services and international capital flows, were collected and analysed. Computed coefficients, representing the change associated with a decrease in foreign direct investments, portfolio investments, foreign debt investments and their impact on the number of newly founded digital health start-ups, and the amount of funding for digital health start-ups were presented.
Analyses conducted shows that COVID-19 affected international capital flows have impact on EU Member States digital health services. Negatively affected international capital flows – foreign direct investments, portfolio investments – have high and negative impact on both the number of newly founded start-ups and the amount of funding for digital health start-ups in developed countries and upper-middle countries.

The  paper  presents  the  strategies  of  Middle  East  and  North  African  countries  in  coping  with  COVID-19  pandemic  in  the  first  months  of  spring/summer  2020.  It  offers  a  categorisation  of  strategies basing on the available assets the countries have and political situation. According to this categorisation  there  are  countries  in  which  the  pandemic  is  one  more  burden  to  bear  that  makes  the  current  political  or  economic  situation  even  worse  (countries  torn  by  war  or  serious  internal  social conflicts); countries that cope with the pandemic as good as it gets – taking their institutional capacities  (Egypt  and  Morocco);  the  too  rich  to  fail  category  of  GCC  countries,  and  two  possible  success stories (by that time Jordan and Tunisia).