This article was updated on December 2, 2021.
The European Union spent decades getting rid of its borders. Coronavirus brought them back.
When the pandemic first washed across the bloc in early 2020, panicky countries restored border controls; people and trucks transporting everything from car parts to cabbages spent days in huge lines waiting to cross frontiers. Most air travel ended. Over the last year, as COVID-19 vaccines have become available, those barriers have been lowered — but they haven’t
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BERLIN — In an age of us-versus-them politics, soon-to-be ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel might be the only prominent international leader the global demos can actually agree on.
From Poland to Peru, clear majorities profess a favorable view of the East German physicist-turned-politician, whose 16-year tenure running Europe’s largest country draws to a close next week.
In contrast to her best-known contemporaries, who span ex-U.S. president George W. Bush to Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and
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A third shot within six months since the last dose of the COVID-19 vaccine should be introduced in the EU COVID certificate to be valid, according to Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis in
They got engaged just last week after a year of dating.
And Teresa Giudice looked smitten with her fiance Luis ‘Louie’ Ruelas as they attended the opening of her brother Joe Gorga’s new comedy act in New York City on Wednesday.
The 49-year-old RHONJ alum shared a passionate kiss with the 46-year-old businessman once inside Caroline’s on Broadway, where Joe’s standup set went down.
Smitten: Teresa Giudice looked smitten with her fiance Luis ‘Louie’ Ruelas as they attended the opening
Guests attending the wedding of Prince Philippos of Greece, the godson of Princess Diana and the Duke of Edinburgh, with Nina Flohr, the daughter of a billionaire, have shared snaps of the lavish event in Athens over the weekend.
The prince, 35, who is the youngest child of the last king and queen of Greece, Constantine II and Anne-Marie of Denmark, exchanged vows with Nina, daughter of Swiss businessman Thomas Flohr, for the third time.
The couple first wed last
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This is the first chapter in The Road to COP26 series.
Climate change isn’t just coming for Europe. It’s coming for the European Union.
Europe’s north will struggle with floods and fires, even with warming at the lowest end of expectations — the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 or 2 degrees above the pre-industrial global average. But the south will be hammered by drought, urban heat and agricultural decline, driving a wedge
The plaster-cast heads of Dionysus were back. The unblinking blue Mati evil eyes and Parthenon refrigerator magnets hung once more outside the souvenir shops of Plaka and Monastiraki, where shopkeepers tended to rows upon rows of leather sandals, silver meander rings, dried spices and Cretan mountain tea. The tourists were back, too, if not quite so many as one might expect in the historic heart of Athens on a similarly brilliant, blue June day of years past.
They strolled Pandrossou
