The second networking workshop of OpenEUdebate was meant to be celebrated in April 27-28 2020 at SNSPA in Bucharest to gather academics, journalists and practitioners in 5 panels and representatives of civil society, EU institutions and politics in the plenary; as well as writers, diplomats and general public. The event had to be cancelled due to the COVID19 crisis and lockdowns. Instead, the events were moved to an online format and the COVID19 crisis was turned into a real-time case study on the politics of the fragmented public sphere.