Friday, June 26, 2020

Friday Fuss - Part 2

As a warm Friday turns sunny, here are more fussy things going on:

From The Portugal News, the National Association of Spirit Drinks Companies calls for Portugal to allow clubs and bars to reopen.

From El País, a bar in Alcarràs, Spain becomes popular with workers from Africa, while locals walk away.

From France24, the reopening of Paris's Orly Airport is disrupted by climate protesters.

From RFI, prosecutors in the case against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy allegedly spied on lawyers for top firms in Paris.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Point.)

From SwissInfo, Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court reduces the sentence for a man who spread propaganda for ISIS.

From ANSA, according to an Italian study, mosquitoes do not transmit the coronavirus.

From the Malta Independent, Maltese swimmer Neil Agius swims from Sicily to Malta.

From Malta Today, Maltese Finance Minister Edward Scicluna says "don't blame the victim" on the Montenegro bird chopper scandal.

From Total Slovenia News, cannabis is widely used among young Slovenians.

From Total Croatia News, Cro Cards are a domestic tourism voucher program that will not die.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, a Serb member of the Bosnia and Hercegovina Presidency wants migrants to be deported.

From Balkan Insight, E.U. leaders offer to host a summit between Serbia and Kosovo in Paris.

From Ekathimerini, police raid anarchist squats in the Athens neighborhood of Exarchia.

From the Greek Reporter, police arrest two Bulgarian men in Pyrgos, Greece after an alleged kidnapping attempt.

From Novinite, Bulgaria is reportedly the sixth largest electric bicycle exporter in Europe.

From The Sofia Globe, 16 newspapers in Bulgaria reportedly closed in 2019.

From Radio Bulgaria, three officials in the Bulgarian ministry of the interior are arrested for alleged involvement in drug trafficking.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian prosecutors identify the "world's biggest forger" of plastic banknotes with the help of a fingerprint.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Digi24.)

From Russia Today, large-scale antibody testing shows that over two million people in Moscow may have already contracted the coronavirus.

From Sputnik International, the Russian military claims to have detected U.S. reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea.

From The Moscow Times, the weirdest places to vote on Russia's constitutional amendments.

From Daily News Hungary, a man climbs up Chain Bridge in Budapest and passes out.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at 24HU.)

From Hungary Today, more than 30 pharmaceuticals are found in Budapest's drinking water.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at VGF & HKL.)

From About Hungary, Justice Minister Judit Varga calls the European Commission's proposal on Hungary's transit zones "devoid of purpose".

From The Slovak Spectator, a Slovak investigative reporter finds a bullet in his mailbox.

From Radio Prague, a district court in Prague rules that communist politician Vojtěch Filip must apologize to former National Gallery head Jiří Fajt for slandering him.

From Polskie Radio, a Polish prototype of an electric car will be unveiled in July.

From EuroNews, will the postponing of Poland's election help the opposition?

From the CPH Post, according to a survey, many foreign students want to stay in Denmark.

From Deutsche Welle, does Berlin have the coronavirus pandemic under control?

From Euractiv, a German MEP of Roma origin accuses some colleagues of racism.

From the NL Times, police arrest 21 people in Eindhoven, Netherlands after calls to riot go out on social media.

From Dutch News, the Dutch Supreme Court rules that the Netherlands does not have to repatriate women who joined jihadi movements in Syria or their children.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at De Rechtspraak.)

From VRT NWS, a trip to the Belgian coast will be different this summer.

From The Brussels Times, the coronavirus pandemic is slowing down in Belgium, averaging 89 new infections per day.

From Free West Media, Cambridge University rewards a professor for her anti-white racism.

From the Express, Scotland's Police Investigations and Review Commissioner launches an investigation of a police shooting of a stabbing suspect in Glasgow.

From the Evening Standard, a Glasgow officer is named as a hero after being stabbed in the Glasgow attack.

From the (U.K.) Independent, police do not treat the Glasgow stabbing as terrorism.

From the (Irish) Independent, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party vote to form a coalition government for Ireland.

From the Irish Examiner, it's out with Leo Varadkar and in with Micheál Martin as Ireland's taoiseach.

From The Conservative Woman, whom shall the British honor with statues now?

And from Snouts in the Trough, stabbings in Reading, England are "mostly peaceful" and police in the London area of Brixton bravely run away.

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