In addition to Hungary and Poland, the two Member States are formally under investigation in infringement under Article 7 of the Lisbon Treatya, the European Commission has identified other countries where the independence of the courts is under “serious threat”. In Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia and Romania, “the resilience of the rules that safeguard the rule … Read more
This follows from the data of the World Gold Council. “The main advantage of gold is its high liquidity, but at the same time it retains its value in the long run. This explains the growth of gold demand from central banks, because gold meets their basic goals, which is security, liquidity and return, “said … Read more
President Milos Zeman proposed that the votes cast in the Belarusian presidential election be recalculated. Zeman spoke with this view on Frequency 1 on Sunday. Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (CSSD) has previously called the elections in Belarus unfair and the inauguration of President Alexander Lukashenko illegitimate. According to him, President Milos Zeman, who has … Read more
The hackers interrupted a live broadcast on BT’s television website on Saturday night as its editors spoke with the Deputy Minister of Health about Covid-19. Instead, footage of anti-government protests posted on the Telegram social network by the Current Time TV channel operated by Free Europe and the Nexta, Onliner and Tut.by channels. At the … Read more
Switzerland returns this Sunday, September 27, to the polls to vote in a referendum that puts on the table the end of the free movement of persons agreement in force with the European Union and the possibility of setting limits on the immigration of European citizens to Swiss territory. In other words, Swiss voters will … Read more
Since the start of the pandemic nine months ago, Europe has around five million SARS-CoV-2 infections. After an abrupt arrival of the virus, many of the Member States were able to stabilize the epidemic curve through containment measures: quarantine, wearing a mask and calling for social distance and respiratory etiquette. However, at a time when … Read more
Travel and tourism associations, airlines, railway companies and a number of other sectors affected by Covid-19, a total of 5,000 companies from more than 20 Member States of the European Union (EU), have agreed on a joint action with European Commission President Urzula von der Leien. It is requested to end the post-entry self-isolation requirements … Read more
Rita Neves Costa Yesterday at 8:17 pm— The technology giant is considering suspending services in the European Union if the ban on transferring user data from Europe to the United States goes ahead. This month, the Irish Data Protection Commission, Europe’s top privacy regulator in Europe, had urged the company to stop sharing this content. … Read more
The leaked documents come from FinCEN, which falls under the US Treasury Department and deals with international financial crime. More than four hundred independent journalists from more than eighty countries worked on their analysis. The British BBC likened the meaning of “FinCen Files” to the so-called Panama Documents, a 2016 scandal involving the Panamanian company … Read more
Even the personal meeting of the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Sviatlana Cichanouska, with the foreign ministers of the European Union today did not help the member states to approve the prepared sanctions against forty officials of the regime of the authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko. Despite pressure, especially from the Baltic States or calls from … Read more