Here on the last Monday of 2019 are some more manic things going on:
From Free West Media, the Spanish Coast Guard picks up 300 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean.
From El País, a deal between two Spanish parties could soon result in Spain having a new government.
From The Portugal News, Portugal is one of 30 countries in which Ikea gives refugees employment opportunities. (I believe that a certain American president once said that the best social program is a job.)
From France24, French restaurants struggle to cope during nationwide strikes.
From RFI, the transportation disruption continues despite a small improvement in the Paris Metro service.
From SwissInfo, 2019 by the numbers.
From ANSA, according to ISTAT, the birth rate in Italy hits a new low.
From the Malta Independent, Malta experiences another day and another power outage.
From Malta Today, a look back at Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's exit.
From Total Slovenia News, some Slovenian destinations were "already over-touristed" in 2019.
From Total Croatia News, a second contingent of Croatian troops departs for Lithuania.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, 2019 in review for Bosnia and Hercegovina.
From Ekathimerini, the Greek opposition party SYRIZA slams the government for not nominating any presidential candidate.
From the Greek Reporter, bad weather doesn't slow down the migrant influx into Greece.
From Novinite, a magnitude-4.5 earthquake strikes in western Bulgaria.
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria will get cheaper natural gas from Russia due to a change in its point-of-entry.
From Radio Bulgaria, 72 percent of Bulgarians reportedly support the reinstatement of mandatory military service.
From Romania-Insider, Romanians welcome the new year in their traditional way.
From EuroNews, a Romanian woman dies after being lit on fire during surgery.
From Russia Today, video of the arrests of two suspects who were allegedly trying to carry out a terror attack in Saint Petersburg.
From Sputnik International, a powerful explosion rocks a gas station in Satka, Russia.
From The Moscow Times, due to unusually warm weather, Moscow brings in fake snow for the New Year.
From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungary's former general consul in New York, a stabbing attack against Jews like the recent one in New York is "unimaginable" in Hungary.
From Daily News Hungary, the most disgusting food scandals in Hungary during 2019.
From Hungary Today, two Albanians and one Ukrainian are arrested in Debrecen for attempting to leave Hungary with fake documents. (Two days ago, I found a story about six people in Malta being sentenced for that type of offense. Again, I must ask, did they successfully use the same documents to enter the country or the Schengen zone? Did they have genuine documents when they entered, and then decide instead to use fake ones when they left?)
From About Hungary, tourism in Hungary had a "booming year" in 2019.
From The Slovak Spectator, if you need to call police in Slovakia, there will soon be an app for that.
From Radio Prague, doctors threaten to boycott the Czech Republic's new e-sicknote system.
From Polskie Radio, according to an Israeli newspaper a group of Polish diplomats "went out of their way to save Jews".
From Deutsche Welle, corporate donations to German political parties drop sharply in 2019.
From the NL Times, a Dutch-Turkish family in Deventer, Netherlands is forced twice to leave their home because of firework bomb attacks.
From Dutch News, fishermen from Urk, Netherlands rescue 19 asylum seekers from a boat in the English Channel.
From VRT NWS, air quality in Belgium improved during 2019.
From the Express, U.K. police arrest five men on suspicion of planning terror attacks.
From the Evening Standard, maps show the "huge" division between older and younger U.K. voters.
From the (U.K.) Independent, according to the U.K.'s NSPCC, a "radical rethink" is needed to deal grooming gangs.
From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar visits his ancestral village in India.
From the Irish Examiner, being an Irish garda is not easy.
And from The Conservative Woman, #MeToo hasn't been good for Shakespeare.
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I'll be occupied for some time tomorrow, in part due to watching a football bowl game, and thus most likely won't be able to make my normal long lists of things going on. However, I will make at least one post, to mark the end of the year 2019. Stay tuned.
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