Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Tuesday Tidings - Part 2

As a warm Tuesday heads toward evening, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, an Italian sea captain goes on trial for allegedly returning migrants to Libya.

From ANSA, the new bridge in Genoa, Italy will be inaugurated on August 3rd.

From the Malta Independent, "rebel" parliamentcritters in Malta's Nationalist Party accuse their leader Adrian Delia of creating division by not resigning.

From Malta Today, Delia takes to his party's airwaves.

From Total Slovenia News, police catch 72 illegal migrants, mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, and three people aiding them near Podgorje, Slovenia.  (As I keep saying, migrants aren't merely migrating, but are being smuggled.)

From Total Croatia News, why three destinations in Croatia have the most tourists.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Croatia will receive over €22 billion from various sources of economic aid.

From Balkan Insight, Turkey's governing party announces strict new controls on social media.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek foreign ministry lodges a demarche with the Turkish foreign ministry over Turkey's plans to conduct a seismic survey near the Greek island of Kastellorizo.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece records the lowest percentage of births outside of marriage in the E.U.

From Novinite, protesters in Sofia, Bulgaria call themselves "the vote of no confidence".

From The Sofia Globe, according to Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Bulgaria will receive €29 billion in E.U. funds during the bloc's next budget period.

From Radio Bulgaria, more on the protests in Bulgaria, including their leitmotif.

From Romania Insider, according to President Klaus Iohannis, Romania will receive €79.9 billion in E.U. funds for economic aid and infrastructure development.

From Russia Today, Moscow will install facial recognition cameras in its Metro cars.

From Sputnik International, the Russian government denies interfering in U.K. politics.

From The Moscow Times, a Russian Orthodox priest compares in vitro fertilization to Nazi medical experiments.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban "triumphs" the E.U. summit on coronavirus economic relief and its budget.

From Daily News Hungary, why does gasoline cost more in Hungary than in Austria?  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Népszava.)

From Hungary Today, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary can become a "key player" in the international space industry.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Origo.)

From The Slovak Spectator, according to Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová, the "vision of democracy" of Slovak diplomat/astronomer Milan Štefánik should be kept in mind.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic will receive €35.7 billion from the E.U.'s budget.

From Polskie Radio, a former Polish transport minister is charged with corruption.

From the CPH Post, a roundup of news in Denmark, including experts and politicians debating the use of face masks.  (If you read Danish, read a related story at DR.)

From Deutsche Welle, the trial of a man charged with attacking people at the synagogue in Halle, Germany gets underway.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, in Düsseldorf, Germany, an Iranian man kicks and spits on a girl who objected to him pestering her.

From the NL Times, seriously ill coronavirus patients show major improvement from an experimental treatment at a Dutch medical center.

From Dutch News, new coronavirus cases in the Netherlands almost double in a week.

From Euractiv, a Dutch government advisory board decides that burning biomass to generate electricity is not sustainable.

From VRT NWS, according to Flemish biostatistician Geert Molenberghs, local coronavirus lockdowns in Belgium could soon be imposed.

From The Brussels Times, Belgian police go on high alert after calls go out on social media to attack them.  (If you read Flemish, read the story at Het Nieuwsblad.)

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron calls the E.U. coronavirus rescue deal "the most important moment in the life of our Europe since the creation of the euro".

From RFI, the French government announces 15,000 new jobs in a post-coronavirus revamp of its healthcare system.

From EuroNews, a new law in France allows doctors to report domestic violence.

From Breitbart, an "Allahu akbar" in the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis is stopped by a good guy with a car.

From SwissInfo, archaeologists in the Swiss canton of Graubünden find a 1,000-year-old mold used to make Christian jewelry.  (The article uses the spelling "mould".  If you want to see more of Graubünden, go to this blog's archives from June 2015.)

From El País, are the Spanish Europe's most willing users of face masks?

From The Portugal News, the main points in Portugal's economic recovery plan.

From the Express, three people are stabbed in an attack in the city where knives are illegal.

From the Evening Standard, graduates of the Cass Business School at the University of London plan to demand a tuition refund if the school changes its name.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Home Secretary Priti Patel promises a review of the U.K. government's hostile environment policy in light of the Windrush scandal.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish politicians will take a six-week break starting next Thursday.

From the Irish Examiner, residents of Irish resort towns call for a "tourist police".

And from The Conservative Woman, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "a bumbler in a swarm of sycophants".

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