Europe and the fear of a 4th wave
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Emmanuel Macron announced, Monday July 12, 2021, compulsory vaccination for nursing and non-nursing staff in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and retirement homes.
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By: Juliette Rengeval Follow
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It is the rush on vaccination in France after the announcements of President Macron who will impose a health pass at the entrance of most public places, and which will make vaccination against the Covid compulsory for healthcare workers and all those , professionals and volunteers, who are in contact with vulnerable people.
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At the origin of these new measures, concern as several European countries record an increase in contamination with the Delta variant, a mutation of the coronavirus originating in India: Spain, Portugal, Greece, the Netherlands.
And in
Ireland
,
Emeline Vin
, the fourth wave is here.
Hungarian LGBTs face the law
Since its entry into force, the Hungarian law which prohibits the distribution of content on homosexuality to minors has caused a storm in Europe: once again, the ultra-nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban is unraveling the rights of LGBT people, in a country that was rather progressive.
It should be remembered that
Hungary
is the first country in the East to have decriminalized homosexuality in the 1960s. How will the law be applied, and how is the LGBT community reacting?
It is a report by
Florence La Bruyère.
Serbia changes the names of streets in Belgrade
In
Belgrade
, references to the Yugoslav past, but also to neighboring towns in the Balkans are replaced by references to a glorious Serbian past.
A way to change our perspective on history.
In Belgrade,
Louis Seiller.
Agnès Callamard, the Frenchwoman at the head of Amnesty International
The European Parliament is co-organizing, this Friday July 16, 2021, the very first high-level conference on the global human rights situation, in the presence of personalities such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege and the patron saint of Amnesty International.
Agnès Callamard
took over as head of Amnesty, one of the most important human rights organizations in the world, in April 2021. The Frenchwoman is not a diplomat and she does not want this label.
She claims to be an activist, a woman on the ground and has made herself known to the UN through her uncompromising investigations.
Vincent Souriau.
Champanskoye, the fear of a Franco-Russian crisis
This is THE Franco-Russian psychodrama of recent days: will Russia appropriate the name “champagne” - c
hampanskoye
in Russian?
In recent days, French winegrowers have been outraged at a law recently promulgated by Vladimir Poutine, which would reserve this appellation for wines produced in
Russia
.
This threatens to turn into a diplomatic crisis.
The explanations of
Jean Cassey.
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