The United States has imposed sanctions on three Russian citizens and a Ukrainian MP, described as a “Russian agent.” According to the US Treasury Department, this is a sanction for interfering in the US election and a “clear warning to Moscow” about the November election of the US president, the AFP agency reported. The sanctions … Read more
Michel Barnier, chief negotiator on behalf of the European Union, blames the British for a lack of flexibility in the negotiation of a trade agreement. This is what Barnier says in his report of the last round of negotiations with the United Kingdom, published on Thursday. According to Barnier, the British are refusing to make … Read more
The EU is giving the United Kingdom until the end of September to remove the provision that makes it possible to overrule parts of the so-called Northern Ireland protocol from the controversial ‘Brexit law’. Maros Sefcovic, who represents the EU when it comes to the implementation of the withdrawal agreement, announced this on Thursday. Sefcovic … Read more
Frankfurt / Main / Bremen (dpa / lni) – The pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) assessed 28 airports in its “Airport Check 2020”, including Hanover and Bremen. For the sixth time in a row, the Bremen location was the best airport in Northern Germany for security equipment with a grade of 1.7 (previous year: 1.7). … Read more
In the section of the Tallinn highway from the two-level intersection with the Vidzeme highway to the parking lot at Lake Pulksteņezers (0.00-13.85 km), the number of road traffic accidents (RTAs) is increasing every year, and last year there were 42 such cases. Of the five people killed there, four have died in frontal collisions. … Read more
A wild boar in eastern Germany has been diagnosed with deadly African swine fever, German Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner announced on Thursday. This makes the fear of many German pig farmers a reality, because this will hit exports to countries outside Europe hard. German pig farmers already started to sweat in April when a first … Read more
According to economists, the cabinet should do more to stimulate employment. In a survey published on Thursday, three quarters of the economists surveyed say that the Dutch government should spend more money so that extra jobs can be created and that demand also grows. The survey was provided by the Our New Economy platform, the … Read more
It is only a theory, but an interesting one: if you wear a mouth mask, an immune reaction against the coronavirus could arise because you are exposed to a small amount of virus particles. They call it variolation. But again, it’s just a theory. Scientists write about it in a commentary vakblad New England Journal … Read more
Have you just bought a black kitchen because it was hip, one from your apartment urban jungle made and everything else neatly painted white, fashion changes again. We’re going back to a lighter version of the eighties brown, that is Brave Ground, that sounds a bit nicer. It is also not quite the tile brown … Read more
The WOZ value of homes was higher on 1 January 2020 for the fifth consecutive year. On the date mentioned, the average WOZ value stood at 270,000 euros per home, an increase of 8.9 percent compared to a year earlier. The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reports this on Thursday. The strongest increase in the … Read more