Headlines: Covid-19, Balkan countries speed up vaccination
A man receives a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in Belgrade on January 13, 2021. Serbia began vaccinating against the novel coronavirus Covid-19 with Pfizer-BioNTech jab on December 24, 2020. Health authorities also authorized , on December 31, the import of the first doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V. © AFP / Vladimir Zivojinovic
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Serbia was the first to launch its vaccination campaign at the end of December.
While some countries are waiting for the precious doses, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, others want to step up the pace, such as Croatia.
In the Balkans, all vaccines are welcome: Pfizer, Moderna, but also the Russian vaccine Sputnik V and even the Chinese Sinovac Biotech in Turkey.
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In Croatia, the pandemic has lowered net wages, but above all it has deepened inequalities and
terribly increased insecurity
.
Another consequence is the explosion of domestic violence: beatings, threats and insults, emotional blackmail, social isolation.
Study reveals
the extent of violence against women during confinement in Croatia
.
Another consequence, in Greece, in Athens, homeless people and drug users had been left to their own devices during the first confinement, last spring.
This winter, an 80-seat home has finally opened its doors
, and associations are mobilizing, while fearing that consumption will start to rise again ...
Thousands are sent back to the snow from the old Lipa camp near Bihac, destroyed by flames at the end of December, after wandering through all of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The humanitarian emergency is also becoming a political scandal, as international pressure is mounting on the Bosnian authorities.
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Kosovo is preparing for the early parliamentary elections on February 14, but
the diaspora is furious
: it has only eight days to register on the electoral roll, according to a clearly dissuasive procedure.
Would the vote of Kosovars abroad be scary?
The ballot in any case risks being largely dominated by the Vetëvendosje movement (sovereignist left), which has just concluded an alliance with the President of Parliament, Vjosa Osmani, also interim President of the Republic since the indictment and resignation of 'Hashim Thaçi.
Suddenly, she is the subject
of violent sexist attacks on the part of her former
party
comrades
of the Democratic League of Kosovo.
Being a politician is still not easy in Kosovo ...
In Montenegro,
strong cohabitation has
prevailed since the opposition's victory in the elections of August 30: everything is a matter of conflict with Milo Đukanović, still President of the Republic.
At the same time, environmental disasters are increasing in the small country.
Last example:
a study has just revealed the extent of deforestation
, mainly caused by illegal logging.
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