COVID response to help China become world’s biggest economy five years early
China is set to overtake the US to become the world's biggest economy five years earlier than previously thought, thanks…
Month: December 2020
Vaccination campaign: Spain to register people who refuse from Covid vaccine and share the data with the EU
Spain will set up a registry of people who refuse to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus and share it…
Navalny received an ultimatum: return to Russia till Tuesday morning or face an imprisonment
Russia's prison service on Monday (28 December) gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a last minute ultimatum: fly back from Germany…
Chinese journalist jailed over reporting on Wuhan virus
Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was sentenced to four-year imprisonment for covering the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. According to…
Great Britain: junk food will be banned from checkouts at supermarkets as of April 2022
Supermarkets in England are to be barred from displaying unhealthy food and drinks at checkouts or using them in buy…
EU to launch inquiry into complicity in Croatia border violence
The European Ombudsman’s office has announced it will open an inquiry into the European Commission’s possible complicity in Croatian border…
Brexit will end medical cannabis access for sick children
Following the end of the UK’s Brexit transition period on 1 January 2021, British children with severe medical conditions will…
Vaccination campaign in the EU: Member States follow different strategies
EU countries on Sunday (27 December) embarked on a vaccination campaign to defeat the "nightmare" of Covid-19, with the first…
About 200 lorries are still waiting to cross English Channel border
Fewer than two hundred lorry drivers are waiting to travel to France following a week of disruption at the English…
Alexei Navalny ally arrested by Russian police
Lyubov Sobol, like Navalny, has been a strong critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Video footage has emerged of Moscow…