Saturday Links - Part 2

As a chilly Saturday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, Greens in Germany want German citizenship for "climate refugees".

From Deutsche Welle, even after deaths are linked to bacteria-ridden sausages, the German government wants to reduce the number of food inspections.

From EuroNews, Finland's finance minister apologizes for launching a poll over the fate of the country's ISIS women.

From Polskie Radio, Polish opposition party Civic Platform chooses its presidential candidate.

From The Slovak Spectator, volunteers are sought to help count predators in Slovakia's Malá Fatra National Park.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Prime Minister Orban, Hungary is "ready to build a new central Europe".

From About Hungary, the Romania Revolution of 1989 started with Hungarians.

From Russia Today, North Korea carries out a test at a satellite launch site.

From Sputnik International, astronauts wishing to ride the Russian spacecraft Oryol to the moon in 2030 will face a weight limitation.  (As the article mentions, the Russian word Oryol means "Eagle".  This is ironic because that was the name of the first American lunar module that landed on the moon in 1969.)

From Romania-Insider, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis will receive the Charlemagne Prize in 2020.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Digi24.  If you read German, read the story at TagesSchau.)

From The Sofia Globe, ski season begins in Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, how a Bulgarian computer science school came to run a "truffle farm".

From Ekathimerini, the Greek parliament considers a bill that would create a new body to deal with migration.

From the Greek Reporter, "are Greek authorities starting to push back migrants?"

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Turkish military opens a base for UAVs in Northern Cyprus.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia heads toward qualifying for the U.S. visa waiver program.

From Total Slovenia News, what two Slovenian magazines are saying this week.

From the Malta Independent, according to the Malta Chamber, the country's current predicament was caused by crime, not business.

From Malta Today, according to a commentary column, NATO needs to bring itself into the 21st century.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland helps set standards for carbon markets at the COP25.

From The Portugal News, according to Portugal's environment and climate action minister, the state of emergency on the flow of the Tagus River "is outdated".

From France24, "a rare look" at the restoration work in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

From RFI, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe calls for the national rail company to have contingency plans for averting Christmas chaos.

From VRT NWS, the Brussels borough of Molenbeek bans a hate preacher.

From the NL Times, the American band Guns N' Roses is named as the final headlining act for the Pinkpop rock festival.

From the Express, former U.K. Conservative politician Michael Portillo reveals how Prime Minister Johnson's victory will lead to an E.U. U-turn in Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, had the recent U.K. election been held under proportional representation, it would have resulted in a hung parliament.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Johnson starts talking like one of his predecessors.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admits that it's "wrong" and "terrible" for a 10-year-old cancer patient to be denied treatment due to a bed shortage.

From the Irish Examiner, doctors are leaving Ireland due to long hours and a "climate of negativity".

From The Conservative Woman, the issue of immigration isn't going away, Mr. Prime Minister.

And from Snouts in the Trough, congrats to U.K. voters for the great Christmas present.