In the long run, the COVID-19 pandemic may change Europe’s economy for the better. People wearing face masks walk in front of a euro sign in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on April, 24. YANN SCHREIBER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Germany’s fiscal prudence hasn’t made the country popular. Over the past several years, economists have written countless op-eds blaming Germans…
FRANKFURT – More than 1,000 employees at German meat processing firm Toennies have tested positive for coronavirus, prompting local health authorities to order all 6,500 employees and their families to go into quarantine. The localized lockdown is a setback for Germany’s reopening strategy. Chancellor Angela Merkel had favored maintaining lockdown discipline for longer but eased…
President Trump on Monday is expected to sign an executive order that significantly expands current immigration restrictions to include a number of guest worker programs including the H-1B visa — an order the administration says will put Americans first for jobs as the economy emerges from coronavirus lockdowns. Trump previously signed an order in April that restricted some green…
The UN refugee agency revealed that the number of people fleeing war and persecution was more than 79 million last year — the highest such figure since the agency was founded 70 years ago. Euronews spoke to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, who explained what was driving such high figures. “It is…
President Nicolas Maduro accuses opposition leader Juan Guaido of being behind a military raid designed to oust him during an online press conference in Caracas on May 6, 2020. (CNN)Venezuela’s embattled ruler President Nicolas Maduro has made the most of the coronavirus lockdown to stamp his authority over the country’s key political institutions, all in…
US Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol agents wearing masks for protection against COVID-19 check pedestrians IDs on April 1, 2020, on the Paso del Norte International Bridge between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas. – Both Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, are on stay-at-home orders, but many people who live on…
The Bank of England (BOE) stands in the City of London, U.K., on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Bank of England policymakers will meet this week knowing that they’ll probably have to do more to combat the U.K.’s economic slump, if not now then soon. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — The Bank of England…
In closed meetings, commanders are concerned that protesters will act more aggressively, influenced by police brutality protests in the United States following the killing of George Floyd. Israeli protesters demonstrate in Jerusalem, June 9, 2020. Police commanders voiced concern over the possible influence of Black Lives Matter protests on Israeli demonstrators. Credit: Emil Salman Police…
Dr. Anthony Fauci says Covid-19 is “his worst nightmare.” It might be his worst, but it’s certainly not his first. He has spent his professional career warning of nightmare scenarios, many which never materialized. Nobody did more to kick off the U.S. AIDS alarm than Fauci, who was sole author of a 1983 piece in…
A total of 170 people died of drug overdoses in British Columbia, Canada, in May, over three times as many as died from COVID-19 that month and more than have died from the disease there over the course of the entire pandemic. A total of 167 people have died from the coronavirus in the Canadian…