Covid-19 tracking mobile apps can be “a substantial support” for tracking contact-tracing when reducing lockdowns and limiting procedures, the EU commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, stated Monday (4 May). “[The EU] can take advantage of these apps to allow some taking a trip throughout the holiday,” Vestager, commissioner for the digital portfolio, informed informed MEPs of the […]

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The EU’s virus-alert agency says more money is needed to enhance security of transmittable illness. The Stockholm-based European Centre for Illness Avoidance and Control’s (ECDC) budget for 2019 was around EUR60 m. On Monday (4 May), its director, Dr Andrea Ammon, informed MEPs that a more “electronic and digitalised” European security system was needed. “That […]

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More and more cases of authorities cruelty versus Roma are appearing in the middle of quarantines, lockdowns and emergency situation procedures throughout eastern and main Europe. The most recent occurrence included an attack by a law enforcement officer on 5 little Romani children in Slovakia last month. The kids, 4 women and a kid, aged […]

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“As we fight the pandemic, the (opposition) Social Democratic party fights – to give Transylvania to Hungary”, Romanian president Klaus Iohannis stated in a current interview. This triggered a response from Hungary’s foreign affairs minister – explaining the declaration as “inciting hatred”. The row started when a draft costs giving autonomy to Szeklerland, part of […]

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The European Commission launches on Monday (4 May) the coronavirus global response framework to raise EUR7.5 bn to combat the coronavirus pandemic. This joint action remains in action to the World Health Organization (WHO) call to accelerate the advancement of vaccines, treatment and screening capability, making sure that is similarly “available to everyone and at […]

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This week is kicking off with, on Monday (4 May), the EU commission co-hosting a fundraising event to attempt to gather EUR7.5 bn to assist establish treatments and a vaccine for Covid-19 The World Health Organisation (WHO) contacted us to accelerate the advancement of vaccines, treatment, and screening capability, at “affordable prices” for everybody. This […]

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Gary Neville has actually recommended the Premier League should consider playing games in European “hotspots” without coronavirus issues, if the strategy stays to finish the season. The 2019-20 top-flight campaign has actually been stopped considering that March 13 due to the global health pandemic, though the Premier League has actually continued to make clear its […]

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Malta’s federal government apparently contracted out a push-back of migrants over the Easter weekend where at least twelve people passed away. The discovery comes through a sworn testament by a former operative inside the prime minister’soffice . “It is the first time that there has been admission of this, and the government continues to be […]

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The EU commission will propose straight purchasing the bloc’s tactical stockpiles of medical equipment, crisis management commissioner Janez Lenarcic revealed on Thursday (30 April). The EU executive in late March proposed to established a stockpile of face masks, extensive care equipment and other necessary medical gear to deal with scarcities in member states throughout the […]

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The European Commission has actually opened a 4th legal case in its quote to stop Poland from crashing out of the EU’s legal order. A brand-new Polish law, which participated in force on 14 February, “undermines the independence of Polish judges,” EU worths commissioner Věra Jourová stated in Brussels on Wednesday (29 April). ” The […]

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