As a cool partly cloudy Wednesday heads toward evening, here are some more things going on:
From Free West Media, according to Spain's minister of the interior, cooperation with Morocco has halved the number of migrant landings in Spain.
From El País, the Spanish government is drafting tougher requirements for asylum.
From Voice Of Europe, over 1,000 illegal migrants have landed in the Canary Islands so far this year.
From The Portugal News, the University of Algarve launches a bike-sharing system.
From France24, President Emmanuel Macron unveils proposed curbs on foreign imams in France.
From RFI, Airbus announces that it will lay off 2,326 people.
From Euractiv, a French MEP criticizes soccer teams for flying short distances.
From SwissInfo, people who don't speak German can now watch plays in Zurich, Switzerland.
From ANSA, a partisan monument near Ravenna, Italy is vandalized with a swastika.
From the Malta Independent, Malta's Planning Authority recommends that two sites are declared to be "public domain".
From Malta Today, a former Maltese official claims credit for helping the Libyan coast guard intercept migrants at sea.
From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian businesses can now use Amazon Europe.
From Total Croatia News, Croatian soldiers rescue seven migrants who were trespassing on their base in the town of Slunj.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albania's deputy minister of Europe and foreign affairs meets with Kosovo's president.
From Balkan Insight, Bosnian Serbs demand the establishment of a clear line between Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina.
From Ekathimerini, how ancient Greeks got there first on robots, clocks and computers.
From the Greek Reporter, the European Court of Human Rights to build enclosed migrant detention centers.
From Novinite, Bulgarians observe the anniversary of the hanging of Vasil Levsky.
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarians opposed to the "Lukov March" plan a counter-protest named "no Nazis on our streets".
From Radio Bulgaria, more on Vasil Levsky.
From Romania-Insider, a company led by a U.S. investor expects to start delivering natural gas from Romania's part of the Black Sea in 2021. (If you read Romanian, read the story at Economica.)
From Russia Today, Russian police in Moscow arrest seven members of a banned radical Islamist group.
From Sputnik International, according to the Russian government, U.S. sanctions on the Swiss-based Rosneft company won't affect Russia's relations with Venezuela.
From The Moscow Times, cossacks patrol a Chinese neighborhood in Yekaterinburg, Russia for signs of the coronavirus.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary's National Cultural Council holds its first meeting in Prime Minister Orban's office in Budapest.
From Hungary Today, Orban writes a memo calling for reform in the European People's Party.
From About Hungary, according to Justice Minister Judit Varga, the Hungarian government will not allow criminals to be released early.
From The Slovak Spectator, European observers arrive to monitor Slovakia's elections.
From Radio Prague, climate change will be the focus the Czech Republic's One World Film Festival.
From Polskie Radio, Poland prepares to observe the 100th anniversary of its victory over the Russian Bolsheviks.
From Deutsche Welle, the German government approves a bill against "hate speech" on social media. (I put "hate speech" in quotes because its definition is bound to be subjective.)
From the NL Times, the Dutch government will stop recognizing child marriages and allowing hymen restoration surgery.
From Dutch News, five Dutch passengers on the cruise ship quarantined in Japan test negative for the coronavirus, and will be allowed to return home.
From VRT NWS, Belgian merchants risks fines of up to 100,000 euros if they offer their customers free plastic bags. (When I was in Antwerp in 2017, I paid 5 euro-cents for a plastic bag to hold items that I bought in a store.)
From The Brussels Times, a Belgian nanosatellite is successfully launched from the International Space Station.
From EuroNews, the U.K. tells migrants that they will have to speak English in order to work in the country. (My great grandparents, who grew up speaking Slovak or Polish at a time when neither Slovakia nor Poland was independent, learned English after they immigrated to the United States.)
From the Express, the E.U.'s trade commissioner undermines chief negotiator Michel Barnier's attempt to keep the U.K. under large swathes of E.U. regulations.
From the Evening Standard, according to a survey, most U.K. citizens believe that people who move to a country should learn its language.
From the (U.K.) Independent, during road construction near Perth, Scotland, workers discover a stone with a carving depicting a Pictish warrior.
From the (Irish) Independent, the leader of the Irish party Fianna Fáil promises a review of the party's poor performance in the most recent election.
And from The Conservative Woman, under President Trump, and after withdrawing from the Paris Accord, the U.S. led the world in reducing carbon dioxide emission in 2019.
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