“Yes, I will do the AstraZeneca vaccine,” the prime minister said on Friday during his first news conference since entering office last month. Italy was among a dozen EU countries to temporarily ditch the vaccine after confidence in the jab was shattered by reports from Austria that a person who …
Read More »In 13 years, number of Russians who consider their country to be European has dropped by almost half, survey reveals
That’s according to a new poll from the Levada Center, a Moscow-based pollster and registered foreign agent. The survey revealed that the number of Russians who believe the nation to be European has almost halved in less than a decade and a half, with just 28% of Russians now considering …
Read More »European drugs regulator calls emergency vaccine summit after EU states press pause on AstraZeneca jab rollout
The regulator said Monday it was reviewing data on reports of blood-clotting incidents potentially related to the AstraZeneca jab. Authorities have reported one death each in Denmark and Austria related to blood-clotting in people who had received injections from one batch of a million AstraZeneca doses distributed across 17 European …
Read More »European Parliament lifts immunity of Catalonia MEPs, paving way for extradition to Spain over independence referendum
The three politicians were elected to the European Parliament in 2019, after having fled Spain two years earlier to avoid arrest warrants for sedition, after they helped to organize and run the 2017 independence referendum in Catalonia, despite it being banned by Spain’s central government. Spain had asked the European …
Read More »‘Euro-speak’: Attempt by German-led EU to monopolise European identity & values is fuelling animosity & destabilising continent
The EU’s efforts to monopolise on a fixed understanding of ‘Europe’ was intended to create a common narrative and identity to unify its members. Instead, the EU has wrecked a common language required to negotiate and harmonise the different ideas (German, British, Polish, Russian, etc.) about the continent and how …
Read More »Tough sledding: Russian European champion lugers endure disqualification for using their HANDS at World Championship event (VIDEO)
Kashkin and Korshunov, who are the European champions, were in action in the doubles event, which features two sliders on one sled as they race down the run at speeds approaching 80 miles per hour. The masterful duo’s fortunes in the first race of the day hit trouble as they crashed at …
Read More »EC president von der Leyen dares European nations to call her bluff with announcement of (mandatory?) vaccine certificates
Von der Leyen sprung the idea of a “mutually recognized vaccination certificate” as a “medical requirement” for travel on Thursday in the course of praising a similar plan outlined to her in a letter from Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “It is a medical requirement to have a certificate proving that …
Read More »Crybaby Pompeo’s cancellation of European trip after spineless Luxembourg’s snub sees diplomacy plumb new depths
Many of us display nerves of steel when playing poker with fake chips. It would be a different story, though, if our life savings were in the middle of the table. The unbridled confidence and absence of anxiety would evaporate. One is easy, but the other requires strength of character. …
Read More »‘Tipping point’ of the pandemic: WHO says 22 European countries have new Covid-19 variant
“We remain in the grip of Covid-19 as cases surge across Europe and we tackle new challenges brought by the mutating virus,” said Hans Kluge, the WHO’s regional chief for Europe. Kluge added that the new variant of the virus, which might be up to 70 percent more transmissible, has …
Read More »‘Don’t talk about European sovereignty’: Berlin WON’T do US bidding & change stance on Nord Stream 2 with Biden in charge, FM says
“We do not need to talk about European sovereignty if it means that, in the future, we will only do everything Washington wants,” Maas told Germany’s dpa news agency while commenting on the German government’s stance on the Russian gas pipeline project. “The federal government will not change its position …
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