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Today’s German elections mark the effective end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year rule. Yanis Varoufakis writes for Jacobin about how she became Europe’s most dominant peacetime leader — at the expense of Europe itself. ...[Read more]
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Travel to the European Union is currently extremely limited except for a handful of countries with low infection rates. But with the summer tourism season looming, the European Commission hopes the new recommendations will dramatically expand that list.
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The proportion of cases resulting from the coronavirus mutation first detected in the UK is doubling every week, officials say. ...[Read more]
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Dutch TV news has aired footage of customs officers confiscating ham sandwiches from drivers arriving by ferry from the UK under post-Brexit rules banning personal imports of meat and dairy products into the EU.
Officials wearing high-visibility jackets a ...[Read more]
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A deal was found on Christmas eve and while both sides, Britain and the European Union, may have lost, the British loss seems bigger.
The 1256 pages of the deal are mostly about trade in goods, not about trade in services. While there will be no tariffs a ...[Read more]
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France’s decision to block lorries arriving from the UK for 48 hours in response to the emergence of a new strain of Covid-19 will have a “devastating effect” on the supply of food and other consumer goods to Britain, industry representatives have w ...[Read more]
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China has reached its 2020 solar power target three years ahead of schedule, after installed capacity topped well over its 105GW target. Europe has been urged to show similar ambition. ...[Read more]
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Hate speech restrictions are used in European countries to suppress, outlaw, and punish more than far-right bigotry. Those laws have frequently been used to constrain and sanction a wide range of political views that many left-wing censorship advocates wo ...[Read more]
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In contrast to their reaction to other terrorist attacks, the authorities of Berlin and Paris didn't light up city landmarks in a show of solidarity with the victims, a decision which was greeted with disapproval by French and German citizens. ...[Read more]
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Bordeaux Mayor Alain Juppe conceded his defeat in Sunday’s runoff of the center-right primaries and wished his challenger a victory next May.
Fillon won the primary with ~70% of votes. Fillon advocates cooperation and reconciliation with Russia and is a ...[Read more]
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