Tag: Europe
Cheap destinations: where to go in Europe for a city break?
Are you looking for an unmissable, idyllic or even little-known destination to go on a cheap trip? Whether in Europe or elsewhere, here is our selection of cities and countries…
30 years after the fall of the USSR, the exile of dissidents continues
Thirty years ago, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR, disappeared, marking the end of the Cold War and of a process that had started at the end of…
Finland starts EPR nuclear reactor twelve years late
Twelve years late, Finland is finally starting its EPR nuclear reactor. It is the first time in fifteen years that a nuclear reactor has started up in Europe. The Finnish…
a child of freedom
On December 26, 1991, the USSR was officially dissolved, the end point of the dislocation of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and part of Central Asia. On the occasion of…
Boris Johnson stuck between science and his political camp
The British Prime Minister must manage a phenomenal increase in contamination linked to the Omicron variant. Between the scandals over parties organized during confinement, the split that is taking place…
Fall of the USSR: in Russia, the teaching of history is still far from objective
Our series on 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union. A page of recent history which has become a very sensitive political issue, its teaching, especially from the…
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…