Greece looks for EU support this week in tough upcoming talks with Turkey after securing a diplomatic boost from the visiting US secretary of state. An ongoing crisis over maritime borders and energy exploration is to be discussed at an EU leaders’ summit Thursday and
Britain! After years trekking through countless countries, weeks in a filthy camp on the French coast, seven gruelling hours on a small boat tossed about by the Channel, Walid has finally made it. He’s managed to cross the so-called death route. His friend Falah, though,
Greece’s government has cautiously welcomed a plan from Brussels to reform the EU’s shaky asylum system, but charity groups working with refugees on the ground have blasted a continued “outrageous containment policy”. The “New Pact on Migration and Asylum” unveiled on September 23 calls for
More than one million people have died from coronavirus, according to an AFP toll, marking a grim milestone in the spread of the disease that has ravaged the world economy, inflamed diplomatic tensions and upended lives from Indian slums to New York City. In the
The first Western country to be struck by the devastating coronavirus pandemic, Italy is today an outlier in Europe with limited new cases compared with neighbours. The question is why — and will it last. While France reported a record 16,096 new Covid-19 infections on
European businesses are concerned about the lack of progress in the ongoing negotiations between Britain and the European Union and warned of a no-deal Brexit. Business Europe is concerned “We are sleepwalking into a precipice,” Markus Bayrer, director general of the employers’ association Business Europe,
The novel coronavirus pandemic, soon to pass the milestone of one million deaths, has a higher toll compared with other modern viruses although its ravages to date are far less than the Spanish flu a century ago. As the pandemic continues, the death toll from
Could the mask — already seen by many scientists as the most effective shield against Covid-19 — have yet another benefit? Some researchers now believe that they expose wearers to smaller, less harmful doses of the disease which spark an immune response. This as yet
On January 11, the first coronavirus death was officially recorded in China. Eight months after the identification of the disease that appeared in Wuhan in December 2019, the world is on the brink of recording one million deaths. 1,000 deaths in the first month The
The European Commission is to propose a long-awaited overhaul of the European Union’s migration and asylum system on Wednesday, likely setting off an explosive debate over what is one of the bloc’s most politically sensitive issues. Bottlenecks The EU’s migration system has come under increasing