Spain: Hereinafter referred to as coronavirus such as influenza

Spain’s plan to monitor the coronavirus like the flu, the OSCE’s role in the Russia-West negotiations and the French election campaign in the press.

“Spain wants to return to normalcy with a new approach and watch the coronavirus like the flu,” the Düsseldorf financial newspaper Handelsblatt reported. The paper says: “The World Health Organization estimates that half of the EU population will be infected with the coronavirus in the next six to eight weeks. Infections are rising sharply in many countries. That is why Spain is working on a new approach to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in an interview with Cadena SER radio that other monitoring methods may be needed. ” “Carefully discuss the technical and European level and evaluate the development of this disease with different parameters than before,” said Sanchez.

The report goes on to say: “Sanchez confirmed in an article in the El Pais newspaper that his government no longer wants to record the pandemic on a case-by-case basis, but wants to be monitored in general across the country by GPs. According to Sanchez, the Spanish government has been working on such a plan for weeks, and according to El Pais, the plans are now in the final stages. carry out pilot tests on the new surveillance model … However, it will not be implemented before the end of the current sixth coronavirus in Spain “.

Russia should listen to the rest

Western-Russian negotiations on European security continue at the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Commenting on the role of the OSCE, FAZ wrote: “The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is a good forum for discussing the growing tensions between Russia and the vast majority of other European countries. Do all those involved sit on an equal footing? Russia will have to listen to the OSCE and the representatives of the countries that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently called ‘territories’ left ‘orphaned’ after the collapse of the Soviet Union.The OSCE is also a good place to remember “No one has made the post-Cold War commitments that Moscow itself has made but has not fulfilled within the framework of this organization.”

Pre-election campaign in France

Finally, the Mittelbayerische Zeitung refers to the election campaign in France and the French President and writes: “President Emmanuel Macron was outraged by his harsh statement that he was willing to break it with the unvaccinated. With the language scandal he wants to mobilize his followers, mainly young, bourgeois, well-educated, vaccinated people who long to return to their normal lives. “The biggest factor of uncertainty for Macron is not the political opponents, but Omicron.”

Maria Rigoutsou

Source: Deutsche Welle