Monday, September 21, 2020

Monday Links - Part 2

As a sunny but cool Monday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, according to researchers, Swedes will be a minority in their own country in 45 years.

From the CPH Post, the Danish government was to make helmets mandatory for people riding electric scooters.

From Deutsche Welle, will Germany's Christmas markets be canceled due to the coronavirus?

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian harasses a blind woman on a railroad station platform in Bochum, Germany.

From the NL Times, more coronavirus rules take effect in the Dutch area of Randstad.

From Dutch News, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte tells Dutch soccer fans to stop singing.

From VRT NWS, Flemish socialists tell Francophone liberals to leave Belgium's federal government coalition negotiations.

From The Brussels Times, a new coronavirus testing center opens in Brussels.

From France24, 14 suspects go on trial for allegedly assisting the terror attack against a Kosher supermarket in Paris in 2015.

From RFI, Airbus plans to put the world's first hydrogen-powered aircraft into service in 2035.

From El País, protesters take to the streets against "selective" coronavirus lockdowns in Madrid.

From The Portugal News, the BikingMan World Championship starts in Portugal.

From SwissInfo, hundreds of coronavirus face masks are fished out of Lake Geneva.

From ANSA, 26 migrant-laden boats land on the Italian island of Lampedusa in 24 hours.

From the Malta Independent, Malta reports 45 new local cases of the coronavirus and five among migrants in detention centers.

From Malta Today, three men in Malta are arrested for allegedly stealing gasoline.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia continues celebrating Tadej Pogačar's victory in the Tour de France and Primož Roglič's second-place finish.

From Total Croatia News, Madjerka Hill is a mystery in the Croatian region of Medjimurje.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the "Monument to Peace" unveiled in Srebrenica, Bosnia is not universally welcomed.

From Balkan Insight, Romania joins Poland and Lithuania in supporting the Belarusian opposition.

From Ekathimerini, a history of the eastern frontier of the West.

From the Greek Reporter, 243 migrants at the new Kara Tepe camp on the Greek island of Lesvos test positive for the coronavirus.

From Novinite, a team of scientists in Pittsburgh, USA led by a Bulgarian isolates an effective antibody specific for the coronavirus.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria's Special Criminal Court sentences two terrorists who attacked Israeli tourists at the Bourgas International Airport to life without parole.

From Radio Bulgaria, historical controversies between Bulgaria and North Macedonia.

From Romania-Insider, for the right bid, you can own a chess table once belonging to the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

From Russia Today, a magnitude-5.5 earthquake strikes near Irkutsk, Russia and Lake Baykal.

From Sputnik International, about 200 people are questioned in connection with the case of Russian dissident Alexey Navalny.

From The Moscow Times, Navalny claims that the poison Novichok was found "in and on" his body.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban prepares for a decisive battle.  (A related story is published in English at Magyar Nemzet.)

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, U.S. President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From Hungary Today, Orban writes an essay about the rebellion against "liberal intellectual oppression".  (If you read Hungarian, read his essay at Magyar Nemzet.)

From About Hungary, the Hungarian government will introduce more economic protections against the second wave of the coronavirus.

From The Slovak Spectator, the coronavirus pandemic keeps reducing the number of foreign workers in Slovakia.

From Radio Prague, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš calls on the Czech people to respect face mask rules and admits making a mistake in easing coronavirus restrictions.

From Polskie Radio, Polish Law and Justice Party officials will meet in an effort to defuse tensions in the governing coalition.

From ReMix, over 1,000 people, including Polish President Andrzej Duda, attend the March for Life and Family in Warsaw.

From EuroNews, which European countries are experiencing a second wave of the coronavirus?

From Euractiv, the European Commission lists industrial sectors eligible for carbon compensation perks.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduces a 10 p.m. curfew and warns that more restrictions could come if coronavirus cases aren't reduced.

From the Evening Standard, parts of southern Wales are put under coronavirus lockdown after a surge in cases.

From the (Irish) Independent, a pub owner in Cork, Ireland admits fighting back tears as his pub reopens after being closed for 190 days.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish gardaí open a criminal investigation of an outdoor party in Dublin.

And from The Conservative Woman, the bad faith over the U.K.'s fisheries is all on the E.U.'s side.

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