The 27 heads of government and EU heads of state are coming to Berlin next month for a special summit on China. The meeting has been delayed because the 27 at their two-day summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday barely got round to discussing relations with China, despite […]
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to impose stricter measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The maximum number of visitors to meetings outside must be reduced to fifty, and the ultimate inside is set at 25, reports DPA news agency based on sources. It is not yet clear […]
In the past 24 hours, 3130 infections with the coronavirus have been detected in the Czech Republic. It is the first time that the Central European country has crossed the threshold of three thousand infections per day, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The total number of […]
Dozens of French schools have had to close shortly after the start of the school year due to corona outbreaks. Last week there were 28 institutions, but according to Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, that number is already 81. “We have about 1,200 new corona cases among school students compared […]
An Italian murderer who fled prison for the seventh time earlier this month was arrested on Tuesday while hiding in a sheepfold, police said. Giuseppe Mastini, 60, nicknamed ‘Johnny the Gypsy’, benefited from a temporary release from a maximum-security prison in Sardinia on September 6 and did not return […]
One month after the cancellation of the data treaty between the EU and the US, privacy activist Max Schrems is taking websites to Court that still send data to the US. Schrems and his foundation have filed a complaint with the European privacy committees against 101 European websites. According […]
France sends the navy ship the Lafayette with two Rafale-type fighter jets to the eastern Mediterranean. The Ministry of Defense reported that this is part of plans to expand the military presence in that area. Tensions between Greece and Turkey are mounting there as a result of Turkish projects […]
Germany is introducing mandatory home quarantine for people returning from the Spanish regions of Catalonia, Navarre and Aragon. These three areas will count as risk areas from Friday onwards because the number of infections with the coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants is above 50. People travelling to Germany from one […]
Theatres, cinemas, sports centres, swimming pools and discos are closing in the metropolis of Barcelona again to prevent a new spread of the dreaded coronavirus. The Catalan government determined this on Friday. It is thereby significantly expanding the area where corona measures are once again in force in Catalonia. […]
A judge in the Spanish region of Catalonia has turned against a very strict lockdown in and around the city of Lérida. The regional government quarantined the region a week ago in an attempt to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Now the government also wanted to oblige the […]
