It was one of the quintessential European travel experiences. With passengers cradled to sleep by the clank of the wheels on the rails, the network of night trains that spanned the continent inspired travelogues, thrillers and films. But the cost required to keep them running,
Belarus’ top opposition candidate against long-time President Alexander Lukashenko is safe in neighbouring Lithuania, the Baltic state said on Tuesday, following two nights of a violent police crackdown on protests throughout Belarus. Election results announced The candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was forced to leave Belarus and
From Romania, Poland, Morocco and Thailand, thousands of people flock to Western Europe each year to help farmers harvest precious crops, often paid low wages for long, backbreaking days of work. The migrant labourers’ often poor work conditions are a point of recurring controversy, but
Europe is sitting on a wealth of data that is the 21st century equivalent of a precious metal mine during the gold rush. But instead of exploiting it themselves Europeans may be allowing American tech giants to gain control of all the excavation equipment, some
Many workers’ lives have been abruptly upended by the coronavirus pandemic, as job losses in tourism, air travel, food and drink and other industries hit those both on fixed contracts and in the informal sector. From employees making a comfortable living, to others just scraping
Endangered species face a higher risk of poaching as the coronavirus crisis reaches local communities, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has warned. Emergency EU funding Six million euros (7 million dollars) of emergency EU funding will be made available to bolster conservation,
The eurozone’s gross domestic product (GDP) plummeted by a record 12.1 per cent in the second quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to quarter-on-quarter estimates from the EU statistical office Eurostat released on Friday. Largest GDP decrease since 1995 It is the sharpest GDP decline
The European Commission has signed a contract with US pharmaceutical giant Gilead, securing 30,000 doses of the Covid-19 drug remdesivir for EU member states and Britain. First drug to receive EU approval Remdesivir is the first drug that received EU approval to treat severe cases of