Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Wednesday Wanderings - Part 2

As a very warm Wednesday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, the German newspaper Bild refuses to interview the party AfD.

From Deutsche Welle, the largest stone meteorite found in Germany sat in a garden for about 30 years before being shown to researchers.

From the NL Times, the coronavirus is found at a 24th Dutch mink farm.

From Dutch News, a lime green house in Den Helder, Netherlands will have to be repainted.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at RTL Nieuws.)

From VRT NWS, a pub in Hasselt, Belgium hides its customers in its loft after its 1 a.m. closing time mandated due to the coronavirus.

From The Brussels Times, according to Interior Minister Pieter De Crem, a new coronavirus lockdown would not involve all of Belgium.

From the Express, did any of five dire Remainer predictions become true?

From the Evening Standard, according to the mayor of Bristol, England, a statue of a BLM activist will have to be removed from the pedestal of the statue of Edward Colston.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson catches flack for a joke about "Calvin Klein briefs".

From the (Irish) Independent, the reopening of pubs in Ireland is postponed until August 10th as the Irish government issues new rules about house parties.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's population is predicted to peak at 5.8 million in 2057.

From The Portugal News, according to Prime Minister António Costa, E.U. countries are "finally" starting to understand Portugal's coronavirus situation.

From El País, the Spanish region of Catalonia imposes more restrictions as coronavirus cases surge.

From France24, new Prime Minister Jean Castex details France's coronavirus response in a speech to parliament.

From RFI, Disneyland Paris reopens.

From EuroNews, five takeaways from France's coronavirus recovery plan.

From SwissInfo, the NGO Greenpeace files a protest against Switzerland's financial regulators.

From ANSA, a man who stole school bus with 50 children and three adults on board gets 24 years in prison.

From the Malta Independent, Maltese parliamentcritter Karol Aquilina tells opposition leader Adrian Delia to resign.

From Malta Today, Malta's parliament debates a bill that would give the country's anti-corruption body more powers.

From Total Slovenia News, hundreds of journalists and media workers protest in Ljubljana, Slovenia against proposed media reforms.

From Total Croatia News, the 66th Split Summer Festival opens with an opera by Giuseppe Verdi at the Imperial Peristyle.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to E.U. officials, Bosnia and Herzegovina has made "significant progress" on reforms.

From Balkan Insight, the Moldovan opposition Action and Solidarity Party accuses the governing Moldovan Socialist Party of planning to rig elections.

From Euractiv, "North Macedonia's latest moment of truth".

From Ekathimerini, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls for "strict adherence" to Greece's coronavirus measures.

From the Greek Reporter, plans are approved for a new archaeological museum for the ancient Greek city of Sparta.

From Novinite, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov demands the resignation of Bulgaria's finance, economy and interior ministers.

From The Sofia Globe, President Rumen Radev calls for the resignation of Bulgaria's government and its prosecutor-general.

From Radio Bulgaria, anti-government protests in Sofia, Bulgaria keep going.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian government challenges a law establishing an agency for investigating environmental crime at the country's Constitutional Court.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Radio Europa Liberă România.)

From Russia Today, Russia's Federal Security Service arrests a man who denies that the USSR no longer exists for allegedly planning to overthrow the Russian government.

From Sputnik International, a "minor" oil spill is found at a lake in the Russian territory of Krasnoyarsk.

From The Moscow Times, the Russian Defense Ministry claims to have developed a "safe" coronavirus vaccine.

From Daily News Hungary, a stroke medication developed by Hungarian researchers is in clinical trials.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at 24HU.)

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian parliament defines its conditions for supported the E.U.'s coronavirus recovery package.

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, the "Vienna Five" worked together successfully to produce protective measures against the coronavirus.

From The Slovak Spectator, several news stories, including Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová hosting Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen in her home town of Pezinok.

From Radio Prague, according to Health Minister Adam Vojtěch, the Czech government will fund several coronavirus-related research projects.

From Polskie Radio, the presidents of Poland and Lithuania observer the 610th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald.

From the CPH Post, after several delays, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen gets married.

And from The Conservative Woman, how Sigmund Freud's ideas live on in radical feminism.

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