Facing resurgent virus infections, Spain’s government has unveiled an EU-funded recovery plan aimed at creating over 800,000 new jobs and yanking the country out of its worst economic slump in decades. The pandemic has pulverised Spain’s tourism-dependent economy, with the government warning Tuesday that GDP
In the dead of night, a French trawler cuts through the Channel’s pitch-black waters on a hunt for cuttlefish that takes captain Pierre Lepretre and his crew across British lines. For decades French fishermen have cast a wide net across the strait that acts as
Within the next two or three years, Croatia will enter the Eurozone, with the euro becoming the country’s official currency. Entry is expected to have an impact on both foreign trade and society at large, coming with increasing constraints and opportunities. Right after the latest parliamentary
The first estimates of a national survey published on Friday, October 9th revealed that 4.5% of the French population had developed antibodies against the COVID-19 during the month of May. A vast study The results of the survey, known as EpiCov, drawn up by Inserm
According to a survey conducted by the Order of Nurses from October 2nd to 7th, nearly 40% of French nurses want to change careers. “When will this stop?” Facing the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic, the Order of Nurses carried out a survey of
Average temperatures are rising more and more in the Zagreb region, while snow cover is decreasing year after year. However, Jagoda Munić, Director of Friends of the Earth Europe says that “Croatia is a very passive observer of developments around the European Green Deal.” The
The discovery in the last few years of large gas reserves in the region has whetted appetites in Ankara, which has been forcefully demanding its piece of the pie, even at the risk of contesting the limits of respective economic zones as well as provoking
The European Parliament has backed plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by 2030 – setting up a potential fight with coal-reliant EU member nations. The EU currently has a bloc-wide target of a 40-per-cent reduction by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), people who decide to withdraw from social life, for fear of the COVID-19 epidemic, could cause economic paralysis. “The analysis suggests that…” When asked why the global economic rebound is not happening given that the lockdown restrictions have
Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region of Azerbaijan mainly inhabited by Armenians and backed by Yerevan, has been the scene of deadly clashes for the past week. Here is a timeline: ‘Counter-offensive’ Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet republics in the Caucasus, have accused each other of