Business Planet

Smart solution: how business clusters drive innovation

In partnership with The European Commission

Business Planet heads to Iasi in Romania to see how one tech company got its pharmacy app off the ground thanks to being part of a cluster.

12 March 2021

World News

Biden waits as House set to vote on $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill

The massive package provides up to $1,400 direct payments to most Americans, extended emergency unemployment benefits and hundreds of billions for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

10 March 2021

French Polynesia

France 'underestimated nuclear tests impact' in French Polynesia

The findings, published by the investigative journalism newsroom Disclose, suggest that the radiation levels caused by the tests were far greater than officially acknowledged.

9 March 2021

Poland

Poland urged to suspend planned hospital treatments amid COVID spike

Poland's health authority has recommended the suspension of scheduled medical appointments to provide additional hospital beds during the pandemic.

9 March 2021

Smart Regions

This is Europe’s first cross-border mobile hospital

In partnership with the European Commission

The French and Spanish Pyrenees regions get help with medical emergencies from the European project EGALURG. Its self-reliant mobile hospital also brings COVID-19 vaccine relief to rural communities.

1 March 2021

Czech Republic

Czech Republic imposes tightest restrictions yet amid COVID surge

More than 1,500 COVID-19 patients are occupying intensive care beds, the highest number yet recorded by the Czech healthcare system.

27 February 2021

Czech Republic

ICU capacity in Czech Republic 'will be exhausted in 2 weeks'

The Czech Republic health officials say hospitals are overwhelmed and they plan to ask for help from abroad when the numbers of remaining beds in hospitals reach 10%

24 February 2021

World

Online make-up tutorials help boost cancer patients' self-esteem during the pandemic

With Covid-19 limiting opportunities for face-to-face support, make-up artist Laura Hunt is giving online make-up tutorials to help cancer patients boost their self-esteem.

4 February 2021

World News

Head of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games says he won't resign over sexism row

Yoshiro Mori was reported to have said women talk too much when questioned about the lack of women on the board of the Olympic Games, prompting calls for his resignation.

4 February 2021

Europe News

Brussels wants to cut the proportion of smokers in the EU to just 5%

Margaritis Schinas, vice president of the European Commission, said he wanted to create a tobacco-free generation of Europeans.

3 February 2021

World

Serbian PM: Vaccine success down to prioritising health over politics

The latest data shows that 6.4 doses have been administered per 100 people in the Balkan state. That's higher than any EU state.

2 February 2021

Europe News

Children will be long-term casualties of pandemic, says rights group

Eurochild says lockdowns and school closures are seriously exacerbating social inequality and that children will become the long-term causalities of COVID-19.

1 February 2021

Conscious Travel

Why sleeping outdoors under the stars is good for mind, body and soul

Sleeping in the great outdoors has been shown to have surprising mental health benefits.

31 January 2021

Romania

Romania COVID-19 hospital fire leaves four dead

Another deadly hospital blaze in Romania just three months after 10 were killed in a fire north of Bucharest.

29 January 2021

World News

Thousands of Indian farmers back to protest PM Modi's farming laws

One protester was killed and 80 police injured after farmers stormed a symbolic fort in New Delhi on India's Republic Day in a mass protest on Tuesday against PM Narendra Modi.

27 January 2021

Earth News

What are the top 10 vegan desserts?

From pumpkin pie to plant-based macarons, these are the best vegan baked treats you can make at home.

26 January 2021

France

Meet the French doctor who treated Europe's first COVID-19 patient

"Be careful, when I notify the authorities, it will be like I've pushed a button," a woman at the Institut Pasteur had told him as officials learned of the first COVID-19 case in France.

25 January 2021

Vatican

Pope Francis cancels three more appearances after sciatica flareup

The pope will not deliver Mass, nor evening prayer, on Sunday. A meeting with diplomatic corps on Monday has also been rescheduled.

23 January 2021

Europe

From vaccine creation to trepidation: France's struggle with anti-vaxxers

France has one of western Europe's highest rates of distrust in modern-day vaccines. On Unreported Europe we take a look at why, what anti-vaxxers have to say and what can bring sceptics rounds.

22 January 2021

World News

How are masks and lockdowns affecting early child development?

In a world that seems to keep going in and out of lockdown, and where faces are increasingly covered up with masks, how are babies and young children adapting? Euronews asked an expert in child development at Oxford University’s BabyLab.

22 January 2021