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Decolonising the curriculum: tackling systemic ‘life-threatening’ racism in medicine

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 13:04
Medical curriculums should be reformed if we want to eliminate systemic racial bias, according to students and teachers at the University of Bristol, who stressed that medical education should explore and reflect upon unconscious biases and how these may impact clinical judgement.
Categories: European Union

Commissioner Schmit: EU must stop rise of low-quality jobs in wake of pandemic

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 12:30
While impacting all parts of the economy, COVID-19 has hit young people particularly hard. Nicolas Schmit, the Commissioner for jobs and social rights, spoke with EURACTIV about the EU executive's efforts to address these challenges and avert the prospect of another 'lost generation.'
Categories: European Union

Von der Leyen in self-isolation for 24 hours

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 10:12
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in self-isolation, after she was informed having been in contact with a person who tested COVID-19 positive.
Categories: European Union

Belarusians seek international protection in Poland

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:53
In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the growing number of Belarusians filing for international protection in Poland, doctors in Hungary getting a wage boost as COVID-19 numbers soar, and so much more.
Categories: European Union

No borders with Kosovo

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:25
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the country will remove borders with Kosovo and the Adriatic port city of Durres will become a “de facto port of Kosovo”. His statement came after the joint regular annual meeting between the cabinets...
Categories: European Union

Kosovo the reason for Serbia’s more ‘restrained’ attitude towards the EU

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:24
A retired professor of the Faculty of Political Science and former ambassador Ivo Viskovic said on Sunday (4 October) that after 5 October 2000, Serbia had chosen accession to the EU as its strategic priority, but was deadlocked in the...
Categories: European Union

BELGRADE – No fanfare on 20th anniversary of regime change

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:23
For today’s 20th anniversary of the great demonstrations in Belgrade that were instrumental in the 2000 toppling of then-president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, the country will have much humbler celebrations than on earlier “round” numbers, with...
Categories: European Union

US expects better business climate in Croatia

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:22
“When the business climate becomes even more competitive, the United States expects to strengthen economic cooperation between the two countries,” said US State Secretary Mike Pompeo after meeting with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman....
Categories: European Union

Bulgarian MEP: EU can’t criticise countries

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:21
“The European Union cannot be a caricature of the Soviet Union. They cannot criticise countries”, Bulgarian MEP Angel Djambazki (VMRO, ECR) told Nova TV in an interview on Sunday in reference to a critical resolution for Bulgaria, adopted by the...
Categories: European Union

Over 5,000 COVID-19 deaths in Romania

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:20
As Romania recorded more than 2,000 infections for four days in a row until Saturday and 1,835 on Sunday because the number of tests almost halved, the number of COVID-19-related deaths passed the 5,000-threshold. On top of that, more than...
Categories: European Union

Doctors in Hungary to get wage boost

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:19
Doctors in Hungary are to receive a substantial wage hike as the country’s healthcare system is expected to be pressured by the increase in COVID-19 cases, Reuters reported. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government agreed to the proposal put forward by...
Categories: European Union

Czech PM’s party sidelined in the regions

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:18
While Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’ ruling ANO party won 10 out of 13 Czech regions in the regional elections that took place in the Czech Republic on Friday and Saturday (1-2 October), it did not obtain a sufficient majority to...
Categories: European Union

Golden Dawn’s Judgement Day

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:17
An important court verdict is expected this week for Greece’s democracy. The court will rule whether the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is a criminal organisation. The case was opened five years ago, the party is no longer in the parliament...
Categories: European Union

Microsoft’s new US investment in Greece

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:16
A new investment of Microsoft will be announced today, as part of #GrforGrowth strategic partnership programme between Greece and the software company. The investment of more than $1 billion will be presented in a special event in the famous Acropolis...
Categories: European Union

Madrid awakes to partial lockdown

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:15
The Spanish capital Madrid on Saturday awoke to a partial lockdown which came into effect at 10pm on Friday, meaning its residents cannot leave the city limits except for essential trips and work, for which they need to show official...
Categories: European Union

ROME – Schools will stay open

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:14
As “cases in schools” are still “sustainable”, these will remain open for now, said Health Minister Roberto Speranza. This is despite the average number of daily COVID-19 cases having increased to about 2,500 in Italy last week. “We are talking...
Categories: European Union

DUBLIN – MEP ‘skinny dipping’ Tweet hacking

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:14
Belgian police are investigating the possible hacking of an Irish MEP’s account after it transpired that a derogatory tweet about a former Green Party candidate had been sent from MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s Twitter profile. Flanagan’s account last week posted...
Categories: European Union

HELSINKI – Labour market upheaval brings minimum wage to table

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:13
The mighty Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) announced on Thursday (1 October) that once the current contracts expire by the end of 2021, the FFIF will not negotiate with national unions. Instead, the bargaining on wages, working conditions and shifts...
Categories: European Union

New peak in COVID-19 infections per day in Belgium

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:12
An average of almost 2,000 new people per day tested positive for in Belgium over the past week, with a peak of more than 3,000 new cases on the same day last Wednesday, according to the latest figures by Sciensano...
Categories: European Union

French National Assembly to debate controversial neonicotinoid bill

Mon, 10/05/2020 - 08:10
MPs will debate today and tomorrow (5-6 October) the temporary re-authorisation of ‘bee-killer’ insecticide neonicotinoid for the beet crop industry, a key sector of the French economy which has been in crisis for several months. Neonicotinoids were banned in 2018....
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