Silk Road Adventures Exploring Uzbekistan’s exquisite carpetmaking from Khiva to Bukhara In partnership with Agency of Information and Mass Communications of Uzbekistan
Silk Road Adventures Exploring Uzbekistan’s exquisite carpetmaking from Khiva to Bukhara In partnership with Agency of Information and Mass Communications of Uzbekistan
Real Economy EU's 100 billion euro scheme to tackle coronavirus unemployment In partnership with The European Commission With unemployment surging across Europe and worldwide, will the EU's SURE scheme (Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency) help avoid another pandemic - joblessness - once the COVID-19 emergency has receded? 22/04/2020
France Unrest in Paris as residents accuse police of heavy-handed tactics Residents say authorities are being heavy-handed in their efforts to impose the lockdown. 22/04/2020
World News Euroviews. Closing holes in the net: How the EU needs to remove secrecy from European fishing ǀ View The ongoing revision of the Fisheries Control Regulation provides a crucial opportunity to remove the continuing veil of secrecy that shrouds member states’ efforts to control their fishing fleet and that has allowed infringements of EU law to go unpunished. 22/04/2020
United Kingdom Join the debate as two survivors talk about their battle with COVID-19 The Q&A gets underway at 16h CEST today. 22/04/2020
Sweden Sweden's coronavirus strategy: Right or wrong? Stockholm has stuck to its guns on the country's divisive coronavirus strategy despite the rest of Europe choosing to lock down. 22/04/2020
World News Earth Day at 50: 'No country is getting it right,' activists say Environmentalists will come together today to demand greater action to protect the planet. 22/04/2020
United Kingdom UK 'opted in' to EU ventilators scheme, minister says It was previously believed that Britain made a 'political decision' not to take part as it was leaving the EU. 22/04/2020
World News Coronavirus: Complacency 'one of greatest dangers we face' warns WHO Follow our coronavirus blog for updates 22/04/2020
Netherlands Dutch primary schools to reopen in easing of COVID-19 restrictions Primary schools in the Netherlands will open part time on May 11 but bars and restaurants will not open until after May 19. 21/04/2020
World News Analysis: Is Sweden right in its handling of COVID-19? Risky, reckless, an outlier... Sweden has been at the centre of much debate over the past few weeks. Our Political Editor, Darren McCaffrey, asks "Why has it not ruthlessly pursued lockdown like everyone else? Is it doing the right thing?" 21/04/2020
United Kingdom Coronavirus: 'UK to begin testing vaccine on humans this week' The UK's health minister Matt Hancock said human trials for a COVID-19 vaccine would begin this week. 21/04/2020
Spain 'We all sink or all float': Spain wants EU to back €1.5tn virus fund "In this crisis, either we all sink or we all float. Spain wants everybody to float, for sure," Spain's foreign affairs minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya told Euronews. 21/04/2020
Andorra Orderly Andorra has an unusual system for easing lockdown restrictions Confinement is being eased in tiny Andorra, but there are plenty of caveats. 21/04/2020
Living 10 hacks to make your food last longer during self-isolation From batch cooking to store cupboard staples, what's the best way to use up food during the COVID-19 lockdown? 21/04/2020
No Comment Pittsburgh protesters push for an end to coronavirus confinement They argue the lockdowns - aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 - limit individual freedoms and harm the economy. 21/04/2020
World News Euroviews. COVID-19 is the catalyst we need to fight nationalism – by uniting us all to solve the crisis ǀ View As a global problem encompassing oceans and continents, the idea that a pandemic is considered to be a country-specific problem is one of the most short-sighted considerations that world leaders have drawn. 21/04/2020
World News Coronavirus could make rising global hunger worse, warns new report More than 130 million people worldwide suffered from acute food insecurity last year. COVID-19 could push that number higher, a new report has warned. 21/04/2020
Greece Euroviews. Using empty Greek hotels to host refugees threatened by COVID-19 is a win-win scenario ǀ View While the first attempt to use empty hotels for quarantining a thousand of the most vulnerable migrants on the Greek islands has just been announced by the European Commission, more remains to be done. 21/04/2020
Russia 'It's torture': Moscow's elderly struggling to cope during lockdown “Old people have to stay between four walls most of the time anyway, so not letting us go out at all is torture,” said pensioner Nina. 21/04/2020
Belarus 'He's playing with fire': Division and derision as Belarus carries on “Lukashenko is a complete idiot," said Alexander. "He is playing with fire and puts the lives of thousands of Belarusians in danger.” 21/04/2020