Tag: Europe
A new vaccine for Europe
A new vaccine (“Nuvaxovid”) from the American biotech company Novavax has been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Jean-Marc Sabatier (DR) By Jean-Marc Sabatier * The European Medicines Agency…
WHO advocates caution at Christmas and wants to “end the pandemic” in 2022
As the Covid-19 pandemic and the new Omicron variant wreak havoc around the world, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on Monday, December…
Olaf Scholz appoints Joachim Nagel as head of Bundesbank
It is ultimately the economist Joachim Nagel who will be proposed by the government to head the German Central Bank, the Bundesbank. Close to the SPD, the party of Chancellor…
Fall of the USSR: on March 11, 1990, Lithuania declares its independence
In December 1991, Lithuania had already left de facto of the USSR. On March 11, 1990, the Supreme Soviet dominated by Sajudis unanimously declared independence. Margarita Seselgyte is then a…
Thousands of Poles march to save media independence
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Warsaw and in more than 120 cities in Poland on Sunday December 19. They were protesting against the adoption on Friday of…
in Kiev, some are already preparing for war
Moscow has set the bar very high in discussions with the West. In the event that the talks end in an impasse, many Ukrainians wonder if only military language will…
pound collapse leads to drug shortage
The currency crisis is worsening in Turkey. And one of the side effects of economic hardship is the growing drug shortage. Treatments against diabetes, cancer or a simple cold, a…
The architect Richard Rogers, one of the designers of the Pompidou center, is dead
Architect Richard Rogers has died at the age of 88. He was one of the designers of the Pompidou Center, which houses the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Its…
Greece: in Lesbos, after Moria, an increasingly closed camp
On the Greek island of Lesbos, the Moria camp, which has become a symbol of migratory flows to Europe, was destroyed by fire in September 2020. Since then, a temporary…
Washington dissatisfied with Moscow demands
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain a sensitive subject in Washington. Friday, December 17, Moscow unveiled its demands for a de-escalation. Requirements, many of which are unacceptable, Washington believes. With…