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Cargo flights stay airborne as air traffic disappears during pandemic

Data from Eurocontrol shows that the number of traditional and low-cost flights across Europe have significantly reduced since mid-March but cargo flights hardly been reduced.

World

COVID-19 survivors bring hope and purpose to Spanish hospital workers

Spain is among the countries worst hit by the coronavirus crisis, but the number of patients recovering from COVID-19 far outnumbers the casualties. Among them are thousands of hospital workers now returning to the frontline to fight the pandemic.

Austria

COVID-19: Vienna residents visit Plague Column to ask for protection

Vienna's Plague Column, erected after the Great Plague of 1679, has become a site of pilgrimage as the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic.

Europe News

'Absolutely unacceptable': MEP slams Hungary's emergency COVID-19 law

'It means the suspension of parliamentary democracy in Hungary,' said one MEP, reacting to Hungary's emergency coronavirus legislation

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Belgium

Two COVID-19 infected children, aged 12 and 13, die in Belgium and UK

The girl had suffered from a fever for three days and tested positive for coronavirus, says the Belgian health authority.

World

Baby blues as some mothers separated from newborn amid COVID-19 fears

You’re finding self-isolation hard? Some parents are now being separated from their babies immediately after birth.

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Could the coronavirus pandemic lead to mass surveillance in Europe?

Life has been upended across Europe. But the coronavirus pandemic has opened up a key question: where is the balance between privacy and public health during this crisis?

United Kingdom

Coronavirus: UK to organise rescue flights for Britons stranded abroad

The UK government has pledged £75m (€84m) to help airlines with special charter flights to repatriate tens of thousands of UK nationals.

World News

'We haven't had fresh air in days': COVID-19 ship still stuck at sea

Holland America director Orlando Ashford has urged the authorities in Florida to act with humanity and allow the passengers to disembark.

World News

COVID19 has 'sparked new crime trends', Interpol warns

The head of the law enforcement agency says thousands of fake medical items have been seized and warned against telephone fraud.

Ireland

'All hands on deck': Ireland's private hospitals join COVID-19 fight

"The public and private sectors are tooling up and working together for the common good," the Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar said. Irish private hospitals will now be treated as public amid the coronavirus pandemic.

World News

Coronavirus in Europe: France's daily death toll doubles in a week

France said that 499 people had died from COVID-19 in 24 hours, a grim new record for the country.

World News

'Climate change is still on, no matter what happens with coronavirus'

With a third of the world's population living in lockdown pollution levels have plummeted, but experts say it will have little effect on the climate crisis.

United Kingdom

UK government fighting on multiple fronts to prepare for COVID-19 peak

The UK government is preparing the medical system as cases of COVID-19 in the country increase.

Business Planet

What measures have been put in place to help Europe's 25 million SMEs

In partnership with The European Commission

SMEs in Europe represent 2/3 of jobs and they are particularly impacted by the Coronavirus crisis.

World News

Euroviews. Vets are on the COVID-19 frontlines. They need greater support to maintain supply chains ǀ View

Despite unprecedented circumstances and protective measures, there are some aspects of life that simply cannot be postponed, isolated at home or “socially distanced” - and one of these is the health of our animals.

Netherlands

Museum hits out after Van Gogh painting stolen during COVID-19 closure

The burglary from the Singer Laren museum, located 32 kms south-east of Amsterdam, occurred on what would have been the Dutch master's 167th birthday.

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Minute's silence in Madrid for COVID-19 victims

Spain is one of the worst-hit countries in the world and its daily death toll has exceeded that of Italy in recent days.

France

Tails up? Is wildlife the big beneficiary of the COVID-19 lockdown?

For researchers, the lockdown is a catch-22 situation because the reduced human presence has disrupted animals' behaviour but they can't study it as they're stuck at home.