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
“We don’t want to completely stop the economic, social and cultural life of the French people,” said the Health Minister, Olivier Véran, during an interview with the show Le Grand Jury on Sunday, September 27th. Tightening restrictions rather than another lockdown Facing the increase in
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 Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, declared on Sunday, September 27th, that France is “at war against Islamist terrorism”. “We must win this war” During his visit to the Boulogne-Billancourt synagogue on Sunday, Gérald Darmanin told a handful of journalists: “We are at war against Islamist
Greenpeace, which conducted a survey on school canteens in France, called for action to serve more vegetarian menus in schools, for the benefit of children and the climate. Community efforts More and more public and private schools are serving a vegetarian menu per week to
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
As part of World Car Free Day on Tuesday, September 22nd, a survey conducted by the IFOP institute for the website Caroom revealed the wishes of the population living in large urban centres. Reduce the importance of the car in municipalities 1,031 people took part