Saturday Stuff - Part 2

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

From Free West Media, seven French companies are named by the government for "presumption of discrimination in hiring".

From France24, two French schools close after five British tourists in the Alps are found to have contracted the coronavirus.

From RFI, a French engineering firm creates a senior team of experts call the "Space Cowboys".

From SwissInfo, a newly proposed law in Switzerland would criminalize homophobia.

From the Malta Independent, Pope Francis plans to visit Malta.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia pays tribute to its most celebrated poet France Prešeren.

From Total Croatia News, anyone who wants to literally run around Split, Croatia will have their chance on February 23rd.  (Back in 2007, yours truly did some walking around Split.)

From Ekathimerini, Greek police arrest 167 in two weeks in Athens for alleged theft, drug dealing, and the sale of contraband.

From the Greek Reporter, ten songs that became international hits, which were composed by Greeks.

From Radio Bulgaria, an online platform presenting job vacancies helps Bulgarian expats return home.

From Russia Today, a "massive brawl" involving hundreds of people breaks out in Masanchi, Kazakhstan, resulting in eight of them being killed.

From Sputnik International, Canadian professor Jordan Peterson goes to Russia for drug detox treatment.

From Daily News Hungary, the richest Hungarian is a businessman from Taiwan.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From The Slovak Spectator, tourists can ride bikes, boats and horse-drawn carriages in Oborín, Slovakia.

From Polskie Radio, demonstrators in Warsaw show their support for Poland's new rules for disciplining judges.

From Deutsche Welle, a commissioner in Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrat Party steps down over recent political events in the state of Thuringia.

From Voice Of Europe, convicted sex offenders in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia are allowed to visit brothels as "therapy".  (If you read German, read the story at Kronen Zeitung.)

From the NL Times, an impending storm postpones Dutch soccer matches, and is expected to disrupt airport and railway operations.

From VRT NWS, the storm postpones Belgian soccer matches, too.

From The Brussels Times, the Solar Orbiter mission, scheduled for launch tomorrow, includes an Extreme Ultraviolet Imager built in Belgium.

From EuroNews, a look at European coronavirus quarantine facilities.

From the Express, according to a former cabinet minister, the E.U. will make the U.K. "pay a price" for Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft was designed and built in Stevenage, England.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a cat survives being stuck on London Underground tracks for seven hours.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish turn out strongly at their voting stations.

From the Irish Examiner, a woman is ejected from a voting station in Kilgarvon, Ireland for dressing as a celery stalk.

And from The Conservative Woman, give the Conservative (a.k.a. Tory) Party back to real conservatives.