The Swedish government has presented an emergency law that should make it possible to impose stricter restrictions in the fight against the coronavirus. The new powers would take effect next month and make it possible, for example, to close companies or to shut down public transport. The emergency law […]
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Hungary is still going to vaccinate people this year against Covid-19, that disease caused by the coronavirus. According to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, this will start on 27 or 28 December. Some other EU countries also want to start vaccinating citizens before the end of the year. They are […]
Belarus is closed because of the corona crisis. The government announced that the land borders would be closed to Belarusian citizens later this month. An opposition news medium compared that crisis measure to a notorious Soviet-era barrier: the Iron Curtain. The decree published Wednesday evening states that the measures […]
Turkey has committed “too many provocations” in recent months to ease tensions between Turkey and the EU. EU Foreign Ministers are considering what “consequences” this should have, says German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. Germany is chairing the European Union for this six months but is still manoeuvring cautiously in […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is “very shocked” by the images of the police in Paris beating a black man. The French channel BFMTV quotes from a response from the Elysée because Macron has not yet spoken publicly about the images. The French news site Loopsider published a video of […]
The number of corona patients in Belgium that died has passed 16,000, reports the health institute Sciensano. Since the outbreak, 16,077 people have died from Covid-19. The number of confirmed corona cases since the start of the pandemic stands at 564,967. The number of new infections, hospital admissions and […]
The number of new daily infections with the coronavirus is increasing in Germany after a few days of decline. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German counterpart of the RIVM, reported on Tuesday morning that the lung virus was diagnosed in 13,554 people in the last 24 hours. On […]
The European Union may have to pay more than 10 billion euros for the hundreds of millions of corona vaccines from pharmaceuticals Pfizer and BioNTech. News agency Reuters reports on the basis of insiders that the makers of the vaccine and Brussels have agreed on a price per dose […]
French bars and restaurants may remain closed until mid-January as the government tries to stop the resurgent coronavirus outbreak, radio station France Info reported Tuesday. The French government closed all non-essential businesses at the end of October as the number of virus cases increased rapidly again. The national restrictions […]
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski has been hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus. The 42-year-old politician wants to isolate himself well and prevent other people from being exposed to the virus, his spokeswoman said. The president would not be seriously ill. In addition to Zelenski, hundreds of thousands of […]
