Mayor Beppe Sala of Milan demands clarity about how a fire in a residential tower could spread so quickly. He compares the situation with the deadly fire in London’s Grenfell Tower in 2017. As far as is known, the fire in Milan has caused no victims. However, the footage […]
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In the southern French region of Var, thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes after fierce forest fires broke out last night. Tourists on campsites have also had to look for safer places. 750 firefighters have been deployed to extinguish the fire. Last night, heavy forest […]
Maria Kolesnikova, the last leading opposition figure remaining in Belarus, has appeared in court with her lawyer and co-defendant Maxim Znak. She has been in jail since September 2020. Other Belarusian protest leaders, such as Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Veronika Tsepkalo, have fled the country. Last week, Kolesnikova called on […]
The eurozone economy has emerged from recession in the second quarter, thanks to the easing of corona measures and the global economic recovery from the corona crisis. According to new figures from the European statistical office Eurostat, growth was back in the second quarter, after two previous quarters of […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged that his government is “indebted” to French Polynesia for nuclear tests France conducted on the islands from 1966 to 1996. There has been no formal apology. Macron is on a four-day state visit to the Pacific archipelago. It belongs to France but does […]
Over the next two years, the ECB will extensively explore the possibilities of a digital euro. But, according to the bank, the first experiments are positive. The European Central Bank wrote a report on the digital euro nine months ago and has since successfully conducted some experiments. “This made […]
The European Commission is delaying a legislative proposal for an EU tax on internet companies and other digital platforms, the so-called digital tax. According to a spokesman, the daily EU board first awaits the further elaboration of the tax agreement that was reached this weekend in Venice among the […]
Press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has added Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to its list of “enemies of the free press”. Orbán is the first EU government leader on this list. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman are also on it now. […]
As far as the European Commission is concerned, Germany can receive 25.6 billion euros in subsidies from the European corona recovery fund. The recovery plan submitted by the government in Brussels meets the conditions and will help Germany emerge stronger from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the EU daily […]
German authorities have identified fewer than 500 new corona infections for the first time since August last year. The RKI health institute, the counterpart of the Dutch RIVM, announced on Monday morning that 346 people had tested positive in the previous 24 hours. According to news agency DPA, the […]
