In the News: Faced with the health crisis, Germany is preparing to impose compulsory vaccination
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A vaccination center in Düsseldorf, Germany.
REUTERS - THILO SCHMUELGEN
By: Véronique Rigolet Follow
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This is making the headlines in the European press. "
Germany wants to strengthen its anti-covid measures up to the vaccination obligation
", headlines the Swiss daily
Le Temps
. "
The future Chancellor Olaf Scholz could take the plunge next February
", explains the
Guardian
while "
neighboring Austria is already debating how to make vaccines compulsory also from next February
".
It will be "at the
end of February or the beginning of next March
", specifies for its part
Die Welt,
which underlines that "
the legislative procedure should be launched very quickly, by the end of the year
". Objective: "
To protect the life and freedom of the whole of society, even if this means limiting individual freedoms
", underlines the German daily.
Long strongly opposed to this vaccine obligation, Olaf Scholz "
has resolved to it while the country is hit hard by a particularly violent 4th wave of Covid
", explains
Le Temps
, with overwhelmed hospitals and for the only day of Monday “
50,000
new contaminations and nearly 400 deaths
”. While a little less than 70% of Germans are fully vaccinated, "
The climate is changing in Germany"
, underlines for its part the
Heilbronner Stimme
for whom "
The most reluctant to vaccination have now understood or accepted that the benefits outweighed the risks
","
69% of the population would today be in favor of compulsory vaccination, against 33% last summer
”.
US Warns Russia Against Ukraine "Aggression"
Tensions rose a notch on Tuesday, November 30 at the opening of the NATO summit in Latvia, where precisely "
Allied foreign ministers are discussing a possible response by the alliance to a possible Russian invasion. in Ukraine
”, underlines the
Guardian
.
"
NATO and Russia are showing their teeth again
", comments
El Pais,
who explains that "
Putin warns against the deployment of Western missiles in Ukraine which would be"
his red line
"
,
threatening a
" strong response "
,
while for its part Washington warns" that an attack on Kiev would have serious consequences "
".
To make matters worse, "
Belarus is adding fuel to the fire,"
notes the
Washington Post,
which reports how dictator Lukashenko says he is ready to support Russia in the event of a conflict with Ukraine. While Russia has already massed "
40,000
soldiers"
at the Ukrainian border, "
we must at all costs avoid giving Moscow a reason to justify an attack"
, commented for its part
Die Welt,
which recommends "
not to deploy Western weapons in Ukraine, but to put in place a mechanism of severe economic sanctions ”
. Putin must know how much it would cost him "
politically and economically"
, in the event of an invasion, explains the German daily.
Xiomara Castro becomes the first woman president of Honduras
Even the right in power for 12 years has recognized "
the triumph
" of the left-wing candidate Xiomara Castro, who at 62 thus becomes the "
very first elected president of Honduras
" in Central America, hails the
Washington Post,
which notes "
that" she will thus be able to return to the presidential palace that she had to leave in 2009 after the ousting of her husband Manuel Zelaya, the former president deposed by the military
”.
The United States is already pledging its aid to the new president who inherits a country extremely poor and "
plagued by corruption and drug trafficking"
, underlines the
Post
.
An election which also welcomes Beijing, which relies on Xiomara Castro's campaign promise "
to sever ties with Taiwan to open diplomatic relations with mainland China,
" said the
South China Morning Post
, while the
Global Times
is already delighted. "
A blow to the Taiwanese secessionists
".
Canada in need of Santa Claus
"
The labor shortage is hitting the North Pole
", headlines the
Journal de Montréal,
which reports "
that Santa Claus and elves are now increasingly rare
", to the chagrin of shopping centers that see s' fly some of the magic of Christmas and their sales margins.
Quebec had to call on English-speaking Santa Claus from Ontario, says the daily, which notes that beyond the post-Covid labor shortage, "
some Santa Claus would be reluctant to put on the red tunic by fear of close contact with children in the midst of the resumption of the pandemic
”.
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