European Union finance ministers failed to agree in all-night talks on more support for their coronavirus-hit economies and their chairman said on Wednesday morning he was suspending the discussions until Thursday.
If we don't give our law enforcement and judicial authorities appropriate tools at hand to fight terrorism and serious and organised crime that is being carried out online, they go dark and there is impunity for crimes. They risk to be blind while many of the crimes are either planned or conducted online, says EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove in an interview to Europost.
The EU is securing an overall package of €15.6bn, so called “Team Europe”, for its partners worldwide to fight coronavirus, with main assistance focus on migrants, refugees, internally displaced persons and their host communities.
Measures imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus are pushing the world economy into a recession deeper and more painful than initially expected, even if a rebound is still on the cards for next year. A week before the International Monetary Fund updates its forecasts for the global economy that will take into account the initial damage incurred since the coronavirus emerged in China at the start of the year, the first sets of data are coming in.
The COVID-19 disease pandemic is still infecting and killing large numbers of people across Europe and there is no sign yet that the peak of the region’s outbreak has been reached, the EU’s disease monitoring agency said on Wednesday.
Bernie Sanders is ending his second bid for the presidency, the campaign staff was informed on a conference call Wednesday morning, according to campaign sources. Sanders then told supporters in a live stream that the decision to end his campaign was "very difficult and painful", and acknowledged some of his supporters would have wished him to fight until the last state contest.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ordered Poland on Wednesday to immediately suspend a controversial disciplinary chamber for judges until it can rule on whether the body is sufficiently independent under EU law. The issue feeds into broader rule-of-law concerns pitting the European Commission against Poland's national-conservative government.
On Wednesday, the Commission invited Member States and Schengen Associated States to extend the temporary restriction on non-essential travel to the EU until 15 May.
A thump a second. That is the frequency of the human heartbeat. If you get excited – you become amused, fall in love, get angry – the number of beats doubles. The flat line is the scariest graphic in medicine.
Spain, which has been under a lockdown since 15 March, would slowly see life return to normal by the end of the month, news wires reported. Finance minister and government spokeswoman Maria Jesus Montero said some social distancing measures put in place to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus could begin to be lifted after 26 April, when the country's state of emergency is set to expire.
The EU is securing an overall package of €15.6bn, so called “Team Europe”, for its partners worldwide to fight coronavirus, with main assistance focus on migrants, refugees, internally displaced persons and their host communities.
Being overweight is a major risk for people infected with the new coronavirus, according to France’s chief epidemiologist. Prof Jean-François Delfraissy, who heads the scientific council that advises the government on the epidemic, said as many as 17 million French citizens were seriously at risk from the coronavirus because of age, pre-existing illness or obesity.
Croatia will need about 70 billion kuna (€9.2bn) in the next few months to finance the measures it undertakes to combat the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Finance Minister Zdravko Maric said on Wednesday cited by Reuters. The government has already introduced some measures to help the economy, including writing off tax obligations or deferring of tax payments over the next three months.
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