A policeman who was part of Italian Prime Minister GiuseppeConte’s security team has died after contracting #COVID19. He was 52, and left behind a wife and two sons. #Coronavirus: a policeman who was part of Italian premier #GiuseppeConte's security detail has died after contracting #COVID19. He was 52. He leaves behind a wife and two […]
The EP’s President and political group leaders decided to hold an extraordinary plenary to continue with parliamentary work on the special measures to fight the pandemic. Parliament’s President and political group leaders (Conference of Presidents) held a remote meeting on Thursday morning and agreed to convene an extraordinary plenary session on Thursday 16 and Friday […]
The EU’s next seven year budget should be a key instrument in the recovery plan to confront the negative economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on April 2. Every available € in the EU budget will be directed to address the #coronavirus crisis, rule will be eased […]
NATO Foreign Ministers directed NATO’s top commander, General Wolters, to coordinate the necessary military support to combat the coronavirus crisis and to start using fast-track paths through Europe’s airspace for military flights carrying medical supplies, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday (2 April 2020). Foreign Ministers agree measures to help #coronavirus response. #COVID19 […]
China’s city of Shenzhen (12,5M inhabitants) has just passed a ground-breaking law to ban the consumption and production of dog and cat meat, the first city in mainland China to do so. The ban has been welcomed by long-time anti-dog meat trade campaigners Humane Society International as a watershed moment in efforts to ban the […]
This is my very first post from the Justus Lips building in Brussels during the European Council reporting Greece crisis, one to be followed by many others, the point of non-return of decline of the #EU.