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Sweden

Swedish chief who resigned over pandemic holiday given new job

Weeks after offering his resignation over his controversial holiday to the Canary Islands, Dan Eliasson has been appointed Director-General of the Government Offices in Sweden.

United Kingdom

By hosting the G7, Boris Johnson plans a post-Brexit 'global' Britain

Having fully disengaged from the European Union, Britain's prime minister plans to use the G7 summit of advanced economies to promote a different kind of global collaboration

Europe News

MEPs push for workers to have the right to digitally disconnect

The surge of remote working during COVID lockdowns has highlighted the importance of being able to digitally disconnect once you've done your hours.

My Europe Series

Should the UK help save French-owned Eurostar from the brink of ruin?

The cross-Channel link is on course for bankruptcy by spring if no state bailouts are offered - but disputes over which governments should be doing the bailing out has delayed help.

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Netherlands

Dutch police clash with rioters in third night of violence

At least 70 people have been arrested amid reports of looting in Rotterdam, as demonstrators take to the streets against a national coronavirus curfew.

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Britons break out sledges to enjoy snow during national lockdown

Britons enjoyed a snow day on Sunday after plummeting temperatures saw swathes of the white stuff fall across the UK.

United Kingdom

Vaccine rollout is about more than just buying jabs, says expert

"Many countries have failed to recognise the need to get an entire systems approach to this," said Professor Martin McKee. "It's not just a matter of buying the vaccine, getting it into the country."

Italy

COVID-19: Four further Italian regions reopen their secondary schools

Other regions will be holding off at least until the end of January.

World News

Moderna vaccine should work against UK and South Africa COVID variant

US biotech firm says its vaccine protects against all emerging strains but is developing the booster for the South Africa one "out of an abundance of caution"

Europe News

EU threatens to block vaccine exports over AstraZeneca delivery delays

"In the future, all companies producing vaccines against COVID-19 in the EU will have to provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries," the bloc's Health Commissioner said following a call with AstraZeneca.

Mexico

COVID-19: Mexican president Obrador tests positive amid record cases

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who says his symptoms are mild, joins a host of world leaders to have contracted COVID-19.

France

'Lonely and worried': French students on COVID's mental health toll

One student poll in France found 72% had suffered recent psychological distress and more than a third had had depressive symptoms.

World

France's top health adviser says third lockdown 'probably necessary'

Professor Jean-Francois Delfraissy has called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the virus.

Netherlands

COVID-19: Dutch police arrest over 150 at violent anti-curfew protests

A nighttime curfew running from 21:00 to 04:30 came into force across the Netherlands on Saturday evening.

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Ultra-Orthadox Jews clash with Israeli police over COVID restrictions

The scuffles broke out as police tried to close religious schools that had opened despite coronavirus lockdown rules.

World News

Spain's top military chief resigns after jumping COVID vaccine queue

Spain's top military chief has resigned after it was revealed he and other senior officers jumped the queue for a coronavirus vaccine.

Estonia

Kaja Kallas to become Estonia's first female prime minister

The centre-right Reform Party and the ruling left-leaning Centre Party have voted in favour of joining a Cabinet headed by Reform’s prime minister-designate and chairwoman Kaja Kallas.

New Zealand

New Zealand records first COVID case outside of quarantine in months

A 56-year-old woman tested positive for the virus after spending two weeks in quarantine after being in Europe.

China

Relaxed scenes in Wuhan - a year on from alerting the world to COVID

Exactly a year ago, Wuhan shocked the world by confining its 11 million inhabitants to their homes, beginning a 76-day lockdown.

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Hong Kong puts 10,000 people into lockdown - the city's first

The lockdown in the Yau Tsim Mong district will be in place until every resident is tested - something expected to take around 48 hours.