After almost two months without corona restrictions, Denmark will reintroduce the corona pass due to the sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 cases. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced this on Monday. Denmark was previously the first country in Europe to dissolve almost all corona rules. “The competent committee […]
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Prime Ministers of German federal states want action to be taken now to prevent a lockdown and an overload of hospital care. The number of coronavirus infections is rising rapidly in the country, and more and more corona patients are being admitted to hospitals. “If we take too much […]
Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, often described as Poland’s most powerful politician, will step down from his government position early next year. According to sources from the Polish news agency PAP, he informed party members. Kaczynski would like to free up more time for his work as the […]
The German industry is suffering from supply problems such as the shortage of chips for the car industry. Industrial production in Europe’s largest economy fell 4 percent in August from a month earlier, far more than experts had anticipated. On average, they assumed a 0.5 percent lower production. The […]
Industrial companies in the eurozone further increased their prices in August. Compared to the same month in 2020, their products became 13.4 percent more expensive. Prices rose sharply, especially at energy companies. Now that the recovery from the corona crisis is going fast, shortages of materials, parts and labour […]
Investment fraud caused damage of more than 13 million euros in the first nine months of this year, says the Fraud Helpdesk. This concerns both people who accepted an advertisement and victims who were approached by email or telephone with different products. For the whole of 2021, the organization […]
German inflation rose above 4 percent for the first time in 28 years in September. This is according to an initial estimate by the German Federal Statistical Office. The annual currency depreciation amounted to 4.1 percent. A change in the VAT rate partly caused a sharp increase in inflation. […]
European companies are becoming increasingly concerned about China’s new economic course. They see “worrying signs” that the country’s economic focus is increasingly inward, the president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said. Jörg Wuttke believes that there are “significant doubts about the country’s future growth”. The […]
The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia did not tell the European Union that they were working on a new military alliance. The European Commission has asked the three countries for explanations about the security pact, which they concluded on Wednesday, and will discuss the consequences with the […]
Former Venezuelan military intelligence chief has been arrested in Spain. Hugo Carvajal, 61, is suspected of drug smuggling by US authorities. He had been on the run since 2019. The arrest, a collaboration between Spanish and American police, took place in an apartment in Madrid. The Spanish police report […]
