The Latvian Center for Disease Prevention and Control announced Wednesday that 5,082 SARS-CoV-2 infections had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, an unprecedented number, and that 17 patients had succumbed to COVID-19 complications. The rapid spread of the most infectious Omicron variant of the virus is causing the new wave. The cases broke records […]
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Latvia: Anti-government demonstration against Covid-19 measures
Several thousand people gathered in the center of Riga this afternoon, protesting against the measures taken to deal with the pandemic and at least one policeman was injured, French Agency journalists reported. “We will take power again,” the crowd shouted as police tried to calm them down. As the country has declared a state of […]
Latvia bans unvaccinated MPs from voting, cuts salaries
The Latvian parliament today approved a proposal to ban MEPs who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19, to take part in votes in the legislative work, but also in debates. Latvia, which has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the European Union, was the first in the bloc to impose new measures this fall, […]
Germany urged to take away the ice hockey world championship from Lukashenka. No effect yet
Germany proposed not to limit itself to statements of solidarity with the protesters against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, but to confirm this in practice: to deprive the Belarusian authorities of the right to host the World Ice Hockey Championship, which starts in May. The press service of the German Foreign Ministry writes about this, […]
Spain also suspends its flights and the United Kingdom is isolated due to the new strain of coronavirus
At the end of last January, when the coronavirus was spreading across China but had not yet reached Europe, British Airways decided to suspend all its flights with the Asian country. It was the first airline to take this measure, which was to last until March. By then the virus had already roamed Europe, and […]
Uncertainty among Spanish farmers before the new CAP due to its broad environmental requirements
With “caution”, “concern” and “uncertainty”. This is the mood of Spain’s farmers and ranchers after learning of the agreement reached by the agriculture ministers in the Council of the European Union who will regulate the basic rules of the agricultural sector until 2027, a pact which must still be ratified by the European Parliament and […]